Attorney General Pam Bondi faced sharp criticism in a tense congressional hearing Tuesday as Democrats accused her of turning the Justice Department into a political weapon to punish President Donald Trump’s opponents.
House Republicans are accusing the FBI of downplaying the 2017 congressional baseball shooting by initially classifying it as “suicide by cop,” rather than a politically motivated act.
Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado, the leading Democrat on the bipartisan House task force investigating the assassination attempts against President-elect Donald Trump, expressed concern about “a culture of silence” within the Secret Service that discourages agents from speaking up when they should.
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are under fire for refusing to testify publicly at a Senate committee hearing on global threats to national security, breaking with a tradition of transparency before the panel.
The assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at a July rally in Pennsylvania was “preventable and should not have happened,” according to a bipartisan House panel investigating the shooting and the “stunning security failures” at the event.
State and local law enforcement testified before lawmakers Thursday about the Secret Service’s failure to secure the area during the July assassination attempt on former President Trump in Pennsylvania.
In the wake of the assassination attempt of former President Trump in July, the U.S. House is considering two bills aimed at reforming the Secret Service.
The FBI executed a search warrant to seize the phone of Rep. Andrew Ogles, R-Tenn., on Friday, the congressman said Tuesday.
