Another Example of the FBI Covering for the Left

 From the New York Post: "FBI ‘butchered’ 2017 congressional baseball shooting probe, downplayed anti-GOP motives of gunman, blistering report concludes." The Post's headline is being too kind. From the article:

    Shortly after Hodgkinson’s June 14, 2017, attack on a Republican practice session for the congressional baseball game in suburban Alexandria, Va., the FBI wrote up an executive intelligence briefing that concluded he wanted to commit “suicide by cop.”

    Four years later, in 2021, the FBI abruptly changed its determination — without new evidence, according to Tuesday’s report — to conclude that Hodgkinson’s attack was actually motivated by domestic violent extremism.

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    “The FBI used false statements, manipulation of known facts, and biased and butchered analysis to support a narrative that Hodgkinson committed suicide by cop without any nexus to domestic terrorism.”

    But congressional investigators have since found evidence that the bureau concealed information from the public that would have undermined its initial “suicide by cop” conclusion.

    That suppressed evidence includes key details about a handwritten note found on Hodgkinson that listed several Republicans as targets.

    At the time, the FBI said it found a sheet of paper that had names of six members of Congress, but did not elaborate.

    GOP lawmakers argued that the case file made clear the attack was a “premeditated assassination attempt on Republican congressmen by a radical, left-wing political extremist, who was seeking to affect the conduct of our government.”

    “The guy had a hit list in his pocket,” Jordan said. “[Former FBI director James] Comey, [former FBI deputy director Andrew] McCabe, [former FBI director Christopher] Wray, they all knew it was domestic terrorism, but that didn’t fit their narrative.”

Hodgkinson was a member of a Facebook group named “Terminate the Republican Party,” and had written that he wanted to make a statement in his life before the end. But to admit that it was domestic terrorism would have undermined the FBI's delusional narrative that only the Democrats' political opponents are terrorist threats.