FBI 'misled the public' in claiming 2017 GOP baseball shooting wasn't domestic terror - House Intel | 6 May 2025 | The FBI "misled the public" for years in claiming a sniper's attempt to kill Republican congressmen at a June 2017 baseball practice was "suicide by cop," when it was in fact domestic terrorism, according to a new congressional report released Tuesday. The 27-page House Intelligence Committee report concludes: "The FBI's bottom line -- 'the FBI does not believe there is a nexus to terrorism' -- was based upon falsehoods, half-truths, and manipulations of the known facts." FBI Director Kash Patel announced in April that he had handed over to Congress long-sought bureau records related to the shooting at a ball field in northern Virginia.