Senator John Kennedy pressures the FBI to release details of their investigation into the New Orleans New Year's Eve truck attack, citing public trust concerns and vowing to raise further alarm if information isn't shared.
Senator John Kennedy , a Louisiana Republican, pledged to 'raise fresh hell' if the FBI don't share its investigation into the New Orleans terror attack with the public. 'Once the FBI has a chance to investigate all of this, working with state police, working with Homeland Security, working with the City of New Orleans , they are going to tell you what happened. I can promise you that. Or I'm going to raise fresh hell,' he told reporters at a press conference Wednesday.
'But right now they're in the process of trying to catch the other bad guy, and I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt.' \Trust in the FBI is at its lowest in a century, according to Gallup poll numbers. Just 41 percent of Americans think the agency is doing a good job after support dropped by 18 percent in the past decade. Historically, Republicans have been more in favor of the FBI, with Democrats less likely to have a positive view of the agency. But in recent years, the Mueller report, the Steele Dossier, the search of Donald Trump's Florida compound of Mar-a-Lago and the criminal prosecutions against Trump have shifted Republicans' opinions of the FBI and Department of Justice. Many have also accused the Secret Service of fumbling their protection of Trump after the assassination attempt. 'We are speaking of a failure,' Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told CNN at the time. 'We are going to analyze through an independent review how that occurred, why it occurred, and make recommendations and findings to make sure it doesn't happen again.' \Ten people were killed and more than 30 were injured when the truck plowed into crowds of New Year's Eve revelers in the French Quarter, one of New Orleans' busiest areas, at around 4:15 a.m. EST. The New Orleans Police Department said the suspect, Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, opened fire on officers after the vehicle came to a stop. Officers swiftly returned fire and Jabbar was pronounced dead at the scene
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