Majority Staff Report on the FBI’s Conclusions on the 2017 Congressional Baseball Shooting

Excerpt:  “The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (‘the Committee’) appreciates the transparency shown by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel in providing a review of the FBI case file. His cooperation is a welcome change from previous FBI leadership, who thwarted Congressional oversight and public accountability at every turn. However, after reviewing the case file, the Committee could not be more disappointed by the FBI’s incomplete investigation and substandard analysis in 2017. On a matter of significant interest to Congressional Members and staff and the American people, the FBI investigation failed even to conduct substantive interviews of all the shooting victims and other eyewitnesses. Instead, just seven days into its investigation, the FBI issued a press release titled, ‘Law Enforcement Shares Findings of the Investigation into the June 14 Alexandria, Virginia Shooting,’ arriving at a conclusion there was ‘no nexus to terrorism’ by utilizing false statements and manipulation of known facts.” (footnotes omitted)