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Bizarre: FBI Calls Scalise Shooting 'Spontaneous,' Gunman 'Had No Target In Mind,' Motive
Townhall ^ | un 22, 2017 11:15 | Guy Benson

Posted on 06/23/2017 2:16:37 PM PDT by little jeremiah

Totally baffling. This Associated Press write-up of yesterday's FBI press conference makes clear that everyone involved agrees that deceased shooter James Hodgkinson detested Republicans with a fiery passion, yet investigators seem unwilling to call his attack premeditated or specifically targeted -- nor will they comment on his motive at this point. Why? Am I missing something here? This is what they're telling us right now:

The gunman who shot a top House Republican and four other people on a Virginia baseball field didn’t have any concrete plans to inflict violence on the Republicans he loathed, FBI officials said Wednesday...They said he acted alone and had no connections to terror groups. But they said they had not yet clarified who, if anyone, he planned to target, or why, beyond his animus toward President Donald Trump and the Republicans he felt were ruining the country...“At this point in the investigation, it appears more spontaneous,” Slater said. Hodgkinson had a piece of paper with the names of six members of Congress written on it, Slater said, but the note lacked any further context and there was no evidence from his computer, phone or other belongings that indicated he planned to target those officials... He also took pictures of the baseball field where he would later fire more than 60 shots. “The FBI does not believe that these photographs represented surveillance of intended targets,” the FBI said in a statement.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: baseballshooting; deepstate; dishonesty; fbi; fbicorrupt; fbicoverup; fbioutofcontrol; fbiscalise; fbiscaliseshooter; hodgkinson; hodgkionson; politicalterror; scalise; terrorism
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The only thing I can think of is that the FBI is trying to lull the other members of "Terminate Republicans" and any other similar vermin Hodgkinson was in touch with, into a false sense of security while they are investigated. That is the only good reason.

If that is not the reason, then this is not incompetence or stupidity, can't be. It would be another crime.

1 posted on 06/23/2017 2:16:37 PM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: LS

What do you think of this?

Mind boggling unless they’re investigating others but their statements are pretty conclusive. And to me, obvious lies.


2 posted on 06/23/2017 2:17:27 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: little jeremiah

Back to the old “intent” thingy, I see.


3 posted on 06/23/2017 2:18:21 PM PDT by digger48
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To: little jeremiah

Remember when we respected the FBI?

Yes, it was most probably as corrupt then, but we did believe in them.

But, we believed in the press also.


4 posted on 06/23/2017 2:18:41 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: little jeremiah

Yeah, he didn’t know what the hell he was doing.

He didn’t even know the thing in his hand was a gun, and he didn’t know that if aimed it at a Republican Congressman and pulled the trigger, he might hurt or kill a politician he didn’t like.

Had no idea. Random.


5 posted on 06/23/2017 2:19:07 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: little jeremiah

If the deep state FBI reported anything else, all eyes would be on Democrats, Liberals and the MSM for incitement.


6 posted on 06/23/2017 2:19:10 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: little jeremiah

Anybody who had anything to do with the FBI publishing this lie as their conclusion should be fired immediately for any number of reasons.


7 posted on 06/23/2017 2:19:42 PM PDT by KyCats
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To: little jeremiah

“Spontaneous” is code for “Cover-Up”. Ie. Benghazi.

The FBI is protecting the former Mayor, and other Dems, who met with Hodgkinson every day before the shooting.


8 posted on 06/23/2017 2:21:21 PM PDT by reagandemocrat
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If this is not subtrefuge to flush out others like Hodgkinson, then a bunch of people need to be fired ASAP.


9 posted on 06/23/2017 2:24:00 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: little jeremiah

Really? Our Feckless Bureau of Investigation sounds as clueless as the Brits when a terrorist shouts Allahu Akbar and mows people down, and they can’t divine a motive.


10 posted on 06/23/2017 2:25:52 PM PDT by txrefugee
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It’s just the FBM (Federal Bureau of Matters) proving that they have the brains of your average housefly.


11 posted on 06/23/2017 2:29:52 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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You have a problem with the way we work at the FBI...?

Perhaps you WISH TO FILE A COMPLAINT..?!


12 posted on 06/23/2017 2:30:23 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: little jeremiah

He had no target in mind, other than specifying he was looking for Republicans.


13 posted on 06/23/2017 2:31:06 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Known as the Father of modern agriculture)
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To: little jeremiah

When you go to the amount of trouble and preparation he did, it is definitely NOT spontaneous.

If this is true, where is Jeff Sessions?


14 posted on 06/23/2017 2:33:05 PM PDT by odawg
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To: little jeremiah

Atlanta Olympics, 1996:

An overweight security guard Richard Jewell finds a bomb in a crowded Atlanta park, an act of terror. He alerts the cops, but the bomb goes off and a desperate Bill Clinton facing a reelection bid ORDERS the FBI to simplify things by making Richard Jewell the perp.

Knowing Richard Jewell revers “real cops” the FBI brings him in for questioning, finally pretending to relent and accept his story of innocence. They then flattered him and lowered his guard by chatting him up in grand style like A Law Enforcement Colleague.

The FBI then claimed to Jewell that they were making a Training Videotape simulation in which a perp under questioning breaks down and confresses to a bombing, “Ah shucks, our actor crapped out, got sick, say Richard, would ya help us FBI guys out..?”

A micrometer away from consenting to help them with their “training video”, Jewell suddenly realizes if he cooperated with “his friends”, they might turn around use the tape against him in the world famous bombing that just transpired.

He calls his ex-roomate, a lawyer, who admonishes Jewell that he’s in very grave danger. He leaves the FBI questioning and AVOIDS LIFE IN PRISON BY A WHISKER.

YOUR FBI IS **FINE** ACTING AS AN INSTRUMENT OF POLITICAL TERROR.

It started at least 20 years ago.

15 posted on 06/23/2017 2:33:36 PM PDT by gaijin
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They need to quit resting on their laurels. I’m tired of hearing how they are the preeminent law enforcement agency in the world. It’s no longer true . . . sadly


16 posted on 06/23/2017 2:34:42 PM PDT by t4texas (Remember the Alamo!)
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To: little jeremiah

Why would then necessarily think that he was in touch with anyone. The tenor of the media rhetoric is enough to inspire this sort of thing.

FBI...leftists?


17 posted on 06/23/2017 2:34:50 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: little jeremiah

We taught our children to respect the FBI.

For what?

This indicates the terrorist was another KNOWN WOLF
on their radar, and they will do ANYTHING to cover it up.


18 posted on 06/23/2017 2:35:42 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: little jeremiah

Do I recall correctly that he had the name of the guy he shot on a paper in his pocket ?


19 posted on 06/23/2017 2:36:34 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: little jeremiah
They're just living up to their acronym:

Famous

But

Incompetent

20 posted on 06/23/2017 2:39:50 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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