The FBI employed “false statements and manipulation of known facts” to downplay the significance of a 2017 assassination attempt on Republican congressmen, according to a 27-page report released Tuesday by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
“This demonstrates why it was important to get the Deep State out of control of [the Justice Department] and FBI,” said Chris Gacek, Family Research Council senior fellow, in a statement to The Washington Stand.
On June 14, 2017, James Hodgkinson traveled from his home in Belleville, Illinois, to Alexandria, Virginia, where he shot more than 50 rounds from cover at Republican members of Congress practicing for the annual Congressional Baseball Game. Hodgkinson shot four people, including two police officers and then-House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., before he was shot and killed by…
