Saturday, May 15, 2021

FBI Admits Scalise Shooting “Domestic Terrorism”

Three weeks ago we wrote about the FBI classing the shooting at the House Republicans baseball team practice which wounded several and resulted in the death of the shooter as “suicide by cop.” Today the Washington Examiner reports the FBI have reclassified it as “domestic terrorism” done by “a domestic violent extremist.” However:

The revelation appears in the middle of an appendix on page 35 of a 40-page FBI-DHS report released on Friday titled “Security Strategic Intelligence Assessment and Data on Domestic Terrorism.”

The obvious subtext: the FBI hates admitting they got something wrong, and buried the admission. Nevertheless, some diligent soul dug it out. The once esteemed, squeaky clean bureau has become politicized which squandered its reputation in recent years.