'No Reasonable Or Acceptable Explanation For Why The FBI Stonewalled' 2017 Shooting Report: Crawford

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At a press briefing on Tuesday, Rep. Rick Crawford (R-AR), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, discussed a Congressional report on the FBI probe of the 2017 GOP Congressional Baseball Team shooting.

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02:59You, thank you.

03:03OK.

03:07For the results of the

03:09has been far too often thrown aside in high-profile events.

03:13Unfortunately, the committee's review found this case was no different.

03:17Through our oversight review, we found that the FBI prematurely declared the case to be, quote,

03:21suicide by cop, misconstruing information, misleading the public, and misrepresenting the facts.

03:28The FBI then spent four years guarding those determinations by obstructing congressional oversight.

03:33I will let Mr. Jackson share details of the report,

03:36but I will say it's unacceptable and alarming that the FBI would approach any investigation

03:41within its purview with this complete disregard and lack of investigative integrity.

03:45As I said before, my tenure as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee

03:48will be marked by rigorous oversight of the IC to address the significant degradation

03:52of the intelligence community's investigative and analytic integrity.

03:56There have been far too many instances of failure to document the facts

03:59and present a conclusion that is unclouded by personal, political, or institutional bias.

04:04The House Intelligence Committee will continue to hold the IC accountable

04:08for the omission or suppression of key information in some assessments

04:11and the far too prevalent failure to respond to congressional oversight.

04:15Simply said, this boils down to the fact that Americans and their elected leaders

04:18need to be able to trust the IC.

04:21It's a national security imperative, and I'm hopeful that Director Patel's transparency

04:25with the committee bodes well that the administration intends to work with Congress

04:29to correct the failures and rebuild an IC that the American people can trust.

04:33Thank you, Chairman Jordan, for your partnership in overseeing the operations

04:36and activities of the FBI.

04:37I want to now hand it over to HIPSEY Oversight and Investigation Chairman Dr. Ronny Jackson.

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