House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., said Tuesday that the FBI “completely mishandled” its investigation into the 2017 shooting during a Republican baseball practice that left him severely injured.

Scalise was reacting to a report issued by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence dated Tuesday that said the FBI’s investigation was far worse, calling it biased and flawed.

The panel, chaired by Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Ark., said in its report that it “could not be more disappointed by the FBI’s incomplete investigation and substandard analysis in 2017” of the shooting by James Hodgkinson that left Scalise fighting for his life and injured three others, including two U.S. Capitol Police officers, who were part of Scalise’s security detail that day.

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