In March, FBI Director Kash Patel made a major move regarding the 2017 congressional baseball practice shooting and provided the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence all the documents they had requested regarding the incident. In a joint statement, the Judiciary, Intelligence, and Oversight committees issued a scathing joint report Tuesday alleging that the FBI bungled their investigation and tried to cover up the political motivations of the shooter:

The FBI botched its investigation of the 2017 congressional baseball shooting — downplaying the gunman’s anti-GOP motives despite having handwritten evidence, a blistering House report found.
 
The House Judiciary Committee, Intelligence Committee and Intelligence Subcommittee on Oversight & Investigation released the scathing, unclassified report on its findings Tuesday after combing through roughly 3,000 case file documents it was given last month on the attack that wounded six, including current House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), and led to the death of gunman James T. Hodgkinson.

“This is the same FBI that can’t tell us who planted the pipe bomb [on Jan. 6, 2021], who can’t tell us who leaked the Dobbs opinion and who can tell us who put cocaine at the White House,” House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) chided Tuesday morning.

The report found:
❌FBI failed to substantively interview the shooting victims & other eyewitnesses
❌FBI failed to develop a comprehensive timeline of events
❌FBI case file was improperly classified, assisting the FBI in obfuscating substandard investigative efforts & analysis https://t.co/ETIjWWj7ID

— House Intelligence Committee (@HouseIntel) May 6, 2025

More: Kash Patel Makes Major Move Regarding Archives of 2017 Congressional Baseball Game Shooting

Here’s what went down the day, as I reported recently:

Doubtless you’ll remember the awful shooting at a practice for the 2017 Congressional Baseball Game for Charity where 66-year-old James Hodgkinson first confirmed that Republicans were playing, then unleashed over 60 rounds from his  SKS 7.62mm rifle. Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) was severely injured and spent months in recovery, while four other victims were also hit. It could have been much worse without the heroics of Capitol and Alexandria Police, who took out Hodgkinson after a 10-minute shootout.

It was a clear act of political violence perpetrated by a madman who hated Republicans, which is why it wasn’t an even bigger news story. If the shooter had been a white supremacist MAGA lover spraying bullets at Democrats, we’d see wall-to-wall coverage every time the month of June and the anniversary of the shooting rolled around.

WATCH: Video shows House Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise taken away on stretcher and into helicopter following shooting at Virginia park. pic.twitter.com/naKRc3eoXK

— Good Morning America (@GMA) June 14, 2017

Despite the shooter’s clear political motivations gleaned from social media (including being a member of a Facebook group named “Terminate the Republican Party”), the FBI initially categorized the shooting as  “suicide by cop” and didn’t change the classification for four years despite the obvious fallacy of their determination. 

The Committees said the Bureau made plenty of other maneuvers to shade the truth:

“The FBI then spent the next four years privately guarding the basis for its determinations by impeding Congressional oversight,” the report assessed. “It was not until the FBI was investigating January 6 protesters and the application of Congressional pressure that the FBI changed course.”

“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.”

The Committees further revealed that a handwritten note made it quite clear what really happened, but the feds ignored it:

That suppressed evidence includes key details about a handwritten note found on [shooter] 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.”

Americans have lost a lot of trust in the formerly revered institution that became politicized over time and was then morphed into an outright weapon by first Obama and then Biden. Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, and the House GOP Committees are working hard to clear out the rot, but there’s a lot of mud in that swamp. This report proves it once again.

This report definitively shows the FBI completely mishandled the investigation into the Congressional baseball shooting of 2017 – ignoring crucial and obvious facts in order to sell a false narrative that the shooting was not politically motivated. I want to thank… https://t.co/xe2RpoVNfT

— Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) May 6, 2025

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