Tennessee U.S. Representative John Rose (R-TN-06) released a statement this week after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) responded to his April 26 letter in regards to the Covenant School shooting in Nashville.
Rose’s letter, sent to FBI Director Christopher Wray, requested that the materials seized in relation to the shooting be released without delay. If his request was not able to be fulfilled, Rose also requested a written explanation and timeline as to when the information could be released.
On October 13, more than five months after receiving Rose’s letter, the FBI responded by referring Rose’s requests to the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD).
“We apologize for our delay in responding to your letter…In order to protect the integrity of all investigations, the FBI does not ordinarily comment on the status or existence of any potential investigative matter,” the agency wrote. “The FBI would therefore respectfully refer you to the MNPD, which is the primary entity conducting the review of evidence, as the appropriate entity to determine what can be publicly released.”
Rose slammed the FBI’s delayed response to his letter, calling it “neither comprehensive in nature nor responsive to my questions in any substantive way.”
“The FBI took an unacceptable length of time – five months – to answer my letter relating to the horrible Covenant School shootings, and the nine-sentence reply was neither comprehensive in nature nor responsive to my questions in any substantive way,” Rose said in an emailed statement. “Such a response is insulting to my constituents and completely unhelpful to anyone personally connected with the shooting tragedy and in need of answers.”
“As a Member of Congress, it is my duty to ask our taxpayer-funded federal authorities like the FBI tough questions on behalf of the people of Tennessee whom I represent. But it is also their duty to make a good faith effort to adequately respond to such queries, and in this case, the FBI failed miserably,” Rose added.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
Background Photo “Covenant School” by Metro Nashville PD.
Just another stall tactic to protect criminals and all involved.
Then one day they will announce the statute of limitations has expired.
Problem is that the statute does not apply to murder.
Lee could have had the manifesto made public.
So now, the question is, what does “Red Flag” Lee have to gain by hiding the manifesto from Law Enforcement and the public?
TN has a RINO governor. This country has a dictatorship, put in power by a Stazi police force, formerly known as the FBI.
On the topic of “secret proceedings”. are we EVER going to find out how much taxpayer money the Tennessee General Assembly spent to solve the Scotty Campbell Problem???
Where is the “Transgender” Murderer, Audrey Hale’s, “Manifesto”? The DNC, the Human Rights Campaign, and the FBI have had ample time to Edit and “Cleanse” the document of everything that may portray the Deviant, Murdering “Transgender” as anything but a Progressive Martyr & Champion of the Rainbow Commies.
The TBI has a copy of the Covenant murderer’s manifesto. Certainly Gov Lee can order the TBIto release it. Otherwise since when do appointed officials overrule the highest State official? Likewise, the Nashville Mayor can order MNPD to release it. Tennessee’s Open Records law is being flagrantly violated. Why is that? What do our elected officials fear about the content of the manifesto? And it is being used as a pretext for citizen disarmament in VIOLATION of the State Constitution Declaration of Rights and U.S.Constitution Bill of Rights!!
“The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.” – John F. Kennedy
What are they hiding? Surely not something that would benefit those of us who support the Second Amendment. Or is there something about the mental illness called transgenderism that might blow things wide open. Or maybe there is nothing there but the ramblings of a trouble individual. The quest is: Will we ever know?