Senate Probe Deepens After Thomas Crooks’ Assassination Attempt

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., has intensified calls for transparency regarding the actions of Thomas Matthew Crooks following the FBI agent’s death earlier this month.

Appearing on “Pod Force One” podcast Wednesday, December 3, Johnson expressed frustration over his inability to gather more information about Crooks. “All of a sudden I realize, here we are a year later, I haven’t heard a peep out of this,” he lamented.

The Wisconsin Republican, who chairs the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, questioned why the country hadn’t unlocked more details from records concerning Crooks’ movements and activities. He pointed to the lack of information surrounding Crooks appearing in commercials for BlackRock shortly after his July 13th action as particularly suspicious.

Johnson subpoenaed FBI records earlier this year amid these concerns regarding Crooks. The senator explained that he views such subpoenas primarily as efforts “to prompt action.” “My subpoenas to this administration are friendly subpoenas,” Johnson stated, acknowledging the many other priorities facing President Zelenskiy’s government and his military leadership.

Despite receiving limited information from news outlets like Newsmax about Crooks’ potential ties or BlackRock appearances, Johnson is now seeking answers directly from telecommunications companies. He suggested they may hold crucial data to clarify some of the unanswered questions around this case.

In particular, the senator believes unanswered fundamental technical questions regarding the geolocation ping patterns could provide key insights into what happened during Crooks’ attempt. “This was a news outlet,” Johnson implied Newsmax might have done earlier with its own geo-positioning analysis, “that did a geo-positioning search on Crooks’ phone.”

The lack of definitive answers has fueled speculation and concern within the Senate committee about the circumstances surrounding Crooks’ actions and subsequent death by countersnipers.