FBI officially responds to claim they “lied”
A year after Thomas Crooks opened fire in Butler, the bullets have stopped but the suspicion hasn’t.
Tucker Carlson insists the FBI misled the public about Crooks’ online footprint,
claiming to have uncovered violent posts and a disturbing digital trail that contradicts the bureau’s early framing of a quiet, isolated “lone wolf.”
To Carlson and his audience, that gap feels deliberate, like a system protecting itself at any cost.
The FBI answers with numbers: hundreds of agents, thousands of tips, seized devices, social media accounts examined,
and a firm conclusion that Crooks acted alone and shared his plans with no one.
Officials warn that monitoring everyone’s online life would shred civil liberties they’re sworn to defend.
Between those two stories lies a deeper fracture: a country that no longer trusts its guardians,
and a near-assassination that solved nothing about who we believe—or why.
