{"id":8899,"date":"2025-05-06T14:31:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T14:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-gop-renews-fbi-criticism-over-baseball-shooting-probe\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T14:31:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T14:31:50","slug":"house-gop-renews-fbi-criticism-over-baseball-shooting-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-gop-renews-fbi-criticism-over-baseball-shooting-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"House GOP renews FBI criticism over baseball shooting probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>House Republicans revisited the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2017\/06\/17\/shooting-scalise-congressional-baseball-game-practice-oral-history-215269\/\" target=\"_blank\">2017 congressional baseball shooting<\/a> Tuesday, releasing a report attacking the FBI over its initial characterization of the event as a &#8220;suicide by cop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/intelligence.house.gov\/uploadedfiles\/majority_report_of_baseball_shooting.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">report from the House Intelligence Committee<\/a> incorporated FBI records released to Congress by Director Kash Patel <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FBIDirectorKash\/status\/1904942767412814308\" target=\"_blank\">in March<\/a>. In an early morning news conference Tuesday, Intelligence Chair Rick Crawford (R-Ark.) accused the bureau of acting with \u201ca complete disregard and lack of investigative integrity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/04\/21\/2017-baseball-field-shooting-fbi-conculsion-483993\" target=\"_blank\">first reported by POLITICO<\/a>, the FBI in November 2017 briefed lawmakers who had been present for the shooting that it had determined that the attack was \u201csuicide by cop\u201d rather than a politically motivated act of terrorism. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and three others were wounded in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The shooter, 66-year-old Illinois man James Hodgkinson, was killed by Capitol Police after repeatedly firing his rifle at House Republicans who were practicing for the congressional baseball game. He had espoused left-wing political opinions and opposition to President Donald Trump before traveling to Washington and opening fire.<\/p>\n<p>For Republicans, the FBI\u2019s characterization at the time was a sign of the political motivation of the federal law enforcement agency which was used to \u201cmislead and influence public opinion\u201d in the words of Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas). In 2021, Jill Sanborn, the executive assistant director of the FBI, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/04\/29\/fbi-suicide-by-cop-2017-baseball-shooting-485002\" target=\"_blank\">testified before Congress<\/a> that the shooting was \u201csomething that we would today characterize as a domestic terrorism event.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans revisited the 2017 congressional baseball shooting Tuesday, releasing a report attacking the FBI over its initial characterization of the event as a &#8220;suicide by cop.&#8221; The report from the House Intelligence Committee incorporated FBI records released to Congress by Director Kash Patel in March. In an early morning news conference Tuesday, Intelligence Chair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}