the neck. at the time of that killing, bird had a documented historynth of gross negligence with aisce firearm. he left a loaded glock pistola i inloaded public men s room at the capitol, which for a law is a but f official firing offense. butor for some reason, michael the bird was still in the force that day. the woman he killed was calledld ashley babbitt. babbitt waashleys married 14 yea veteran of the u.s. militaryn ., she in a pool cleaning companyn. with her husband in san diego. physically, she was tiny. she was also unarmed.l by michael byrd later admitted here had no indication at all thated babbitt was carrying a weapon. visiblevi threat.le he killed her anyway.ay under normal circumstances, un would have been firedich he immediately and charged with murder, which he clearly committed. af but that s not what happened after doing essentially no investigattey e and into the shooting, nancy pelosi s congressional police force declaredlosi s c a national hery and the
behind the scenes, alongd alo with those people who withheld their vote for kevin mccarthy until they got the transformationalhy changes n the house in the way the house works, we were working with to make sure that this church committee, a suggestion that you ve had and thank you for suggesting that i should be on it. i don t know i if you re clairvoyant or just made the future happen, but it s happenint it sg. s we were making sure that this committee wasn t going to be fenced in, that it wasn t justdo going to be a show committee. we wanted to make sure that we k have folger ws diction, that it we stumble on to something and another three letter agency that they don t say, whoa, jur that s out of your jurisdiction. or if we find there s more than a violation of the first amendment right, if there areamm otheenr civil rights that are being violated, we ve secured a guarantecured e that we can go wherever the evidence leads us . so everyone who smpte attempted this and few have attem