A Unique FBI Investigation

     Have you ever heard of the FBI launching a criminal investigation into the actions of a slain woman after her death?

     I was astonished when I learned the details of the 62 pages of records Judicial Watch extracted from the Justice Department showing that the FBI opened a criminal investigation of Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt after her killing and listed four “potential violations of federal law,” including felony rioting and civil disorder.
     It is beyond belief that the Biden FBI gave Babbitt’s killer a free pass while engaging in a malicious months-long “criminal” investigation of Babbitt herself.
     The records were produced in our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Justice Department and FBI for records related to the death of Ashli Babbitt (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:21-cv-02462)).
     These records may also be responsive to a recent FOIA suit for the family for FBI files and potentially related to the $30 million wrongful death lawsuit we brought on behalf of the Babbitt family.
     The unarmed Babbitt was shot and killed as she climbed into a broken interior window in the United States Capitol. The identity of the shooter was kept secret by Congress, the Justice Department, and DC police for eight months until former U.S. Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd went public to try to defend his killing of Babbitt.

     The point of this “investigation,” which seems more like a post-hoc justification of Babbitt’s killing, “should” be “obvious.” Equally obvious is that the FBI is no longer concerned with justice, only the defense of its prerogatives and those of its Establishment backers.

     Michael Byrd, the (black) Capitol policeman who killed Babbitt, has never been indicted for his actions. Indeed, he’s been praised, even lionized. But the wrongful death suit just might do something to correct that. It certainly stung the late Orenthal James Simpson.

     Note also that government wants the suit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, transferred to Washington D.C. Do you wonder why, Gentle Reader? I do. 🤔