Judicial Watch President Thomas Fitton has vehemently criticized the FBI’s protracted and slow release of documents pertaining to the 2024 assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, accusing the agency of a deliberate ‘drip-drip’ approach that could take over a decade to complete. In an exclusive interview, Fitton revealed that at the FBI’s current processing rate of 500 pages per month, it will take an estimated 12 years to review the approximately 75,000 pages related to the investigation of Thomas Matthew Crooks’ attack. ‘The public interest in understanding how a former president was nearly killed outweighs the privacy interests of anyone being protected in these documents,’ Fitton stated, emphasizing that this glacial pace prevents timely public scrutiny and raises concerns of a potential cover-up, reminiscent of historical transparency failures. He highlighted the FBI’s redaction of communication logs from Crooks, including text messages to an unknown recipient, as particularly troubling, arguing that the public’s right to know about such a significant event supersedes privacy concerns for individuals connected to the assailant. Fitton expressed frustration with the FBI’s lack of transparency, suggesting that the agency’s ‘typical approach’ is to offer minimal information, despite the clear public demand for answers regarding the security failures and the full scope of Crooks’ activities and communications leading up to the near-fatal incident.
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