Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is accusing the FBI of not taking her predicament seriously after she was swatted for the eighth time on Christmas Day while also enduring open threats to her life.
Greene (R-GA) posted on Christmas Day that she had been swatted that morning.
“Swatting” is when anonymous calls are made to the police with the intention of instigating an emergency response that could result in undue harm to the subject of the prank. She also revealed that on the previous Thursday, a man using the profile name “Ben McLean” had sent Facebook messages threatening to torture and kill Greene and her boyfriend Brian Glenn.
“I was swatted this morning on Christmas Day and a few days ago — Thursday Dec 21st. [W]e received this death threat where this man is saying I will be shot in the head and skinned to make a ‘parasol’ making a reference to Gein, who was a psychopath killer who would make things out of his victim’s skin. He also says he would like to smash Pres Trump’s and Brian’s heads on a curb.”
Ed Gein was the serial killer who served as the inspiration for the character Buffalo Bill in the movie The Silence of the Lambs. Gein would dig up bodies and make outfits, lampshades, and furniture from human skin.
Greene also questioned why the FBI could allegedly abuse the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) — which was recently extended by Congress, as reported by The Dallas Express — to spy on “hundreds of thousands of Americans,” but claims that it cannot legally track down the perpetrators of the deadly hoax calls.
Maj. Rodney Bailey from the Rome, Georgia, Police Department told NBC News that someone had placed a call to a suicide hotline claiming that he had shot his girlfriend and threatening to shoot himself next. The caller gave Greene’s address. After conferring with her security team, police canceled their response to Greene’s home. She expressed her gratitude for the local police’s handling of the incident in her Monday post.
However, “The FBI can do so many things, has even abused FISA to spy on hundreds of thousands of Americans, but can not figure out who wants me killed by a hail of bullets fired by a SWAT team responding to murder suicide calls supposedly coming from me,” Greene said.
She noted, “Swatting is extremely dangerous and people have been killed as a result from swatting calls” and added that she “will be introducing legislation to track down swatters.”
In a subsequent post, Greene said that Capitol Police had contacted McLean but that he denied wanting to hurt anyone, and that he was still not in custody in spite of the written evidence she had provided. According to Greene, Capitol Police relayed their findings to her via email. She also posted that McLean implied the FBI would not protect her and then expressed a desire to “curb check” former President Trump’s skull.
Green added, “The outright absurdity of this email response and the fact that they have not arrested this guy is shocking, thankfully I’m a gun owner. But compare it to how the FBI and DOJ treats J6’ers, Pres Trump, and their political enemies. … Also, if you read McLean’s messages he says he knows the FBI, names an agent, says he likes them, and says the FBI is recruiting him. Is the FBI recruiting a man who is threatening to kill a member of Congress and crush the skull of President Trump?”