一周前托马斯·马修·克鲁克斯开火了美国联邦调查局主任克里斯托弗·雷(Christopher Wray)周三在众议院司法委员会(House Judiciary Committee)作证时表示，前总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)在宾夕法尼亚州巴特勒(Butler)变得“非常关注”特朗普和集会。
他说，克鲁克斯还搜索了有关1963年约翰·肯尼迪总统遇刺的信息。
瑞告诉国会，在过去的几天里，美国联邦调查局已经能够分析一台连接到骗子的笔记本电脑。
“7月6日，他在谷歌上搜索‘奥斯瓦尔德离肯尼迪有多远?’因此，就他的精神状态而言，这显然是一次意义重大的探索，”雷说。
他补充说，克鲁克斯的手机里有公众人物的照片，但他们的方法“莫名其妙”。
这位美国联邦调查局导演说，目前还没有明显的7月13日暗杀企图的动机。
“我们希望了解更多，我们仍然在开发一些数字设备，”雷说。
他还说，克鲁克斯在暗杀企图前一周去过那个地方。
“我想，一周前，他去过那里，在那里呆了大约20分钟，”他说。"然后，在事件发生的那天早上，他又去了场地，大概呆了17分钟。"克鲁克斯第三次去了那个网站“永久”
他作证说，克鲁克斯在距离集会地点约200码的地方放飞了一架无人机，并让它在空中飞行了约11分钟。
“我们已经找到了枪手使用过的无人机，”雷说，并补充说无人机是在枪手的车上找到的。
“看起来，在枪击发生的当天，下午3点50分左右，也就是4点钟，在那扇窗户里，枪手驾驶无人机在该地区飞行，”他说。
“让我说清楚这个区域，不是舞台上方，而是这个区域本身的一部分，但我会说大约200码，给或拿走，”他说。
雷说看起来枪手是个“孤独者”他的手机里没有很多联系人。
“很多人形容他是个不合群的人...这确实与我们在他的设备中看到的相符。例如，你知道，与你通常从大多数人那里看到的相比，他的联系人列表非常短...他与很多人之间似乎没有太多的互动，你知道，面对面或数字化的互动，”雷说。
他说，美国联邦调查局已经进行了400多次采访，“还有更多的采访要进行”。
边境威胁
除了有关针对川普的暗杀企图的问题，美国联邦调查局导演还被问及来自美国南部边境的威胁。
雷作证说，在过去的五六年里，在南部边境遇到的已知或可疑恐怖分子的数量“有所增加”，“这应该引起关注”。
他还说，不需要很多外国恐怖分子就能成为“真正的问题”。
“我越来越担心，外国恐怖分子可能会试图利用我们西南边境或其他入境口岸或我们移民系统其他方面的弱点，为在美国发动袭击提供便利。我认为这是我们必须关注的事情，”他说。
选举威胁
雷还说，俄罗斯人正在继续试图“影响”和“以各种方式干涉我们的民主。”
“事实上，就在过去几周，我们宣布了对生成式人工智能、增强型社交媒体和机器人农场的重大破坏，主要是俄罗斯人的破坏，旨在进行影响操作，这些机器人的一些虚假、虚构的个人资料声称是美国人，所以他们仍在继续，”雷说。
Trump shooter looked up Kennedy assassination details, FBI director says
A week beforeThomas Matthew Crooks opened fireon former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, he became "very focused" on Trump and the rally, FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
Crooks also searched for information on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, he said.
Wray told Congress in the last few days the FBI has been able to analyze a laptop connected to Crooks.
"On July 6, he did a Google search for quote, 'how far away was Oswald from Kennedy?' So that's a search that's obviously significant in terms of his state of mind," Wray said.
He added that Crooks had pictures of public figures on his phone, but had "no rhyme or reason" to their methodology.
The FBI director said there is no apparent motive yet for the July 13 assassination attempt.
"We're hoping to learn more, and we're still exploiting a number of digital devices," Wray said.
Crooks went to the site a week before the assassination attempt, he also said.
"He traveled to the grounds, I think, a week before, he spent roughly 20 minutes there," he said. "Then he went to grounds again on the morning of the event, it appears, for about 17 minutes." Crooks went to the site a third time "for good."
Crooks flew a drone about 200 yards from the rally venue and had it up in the air for about 11 minutes, he testified.
"We have recovered a drone that the shooter appears to have used," Wray said, adding the drone was recovered in the shooter's vehicle.
"It appears that around 3:50 p.m., 4 o'clock, in that window, on the day of shooting, that the shooter was flying the drone around the area," he said.
"Let me be clear about the area, not over the stage, and that part of the area itself, but I would say about 200 yards, give or take away," he said.
Wray said it appearsthe shooter was a "loner"and didn't have a lot of contacts in his cell phone.
"A lot of people describe him as a loner ... that does kind of fit with what we're seeing in his devices. You know, his list of contacts, for example, is very short, compared to what you would normally see from most people ... there doesn't appear to be a whole lot of interaction between him, you know, face to face or digital, with a lot of people," Wray said.
The FBI has conducted over 400 interviews with "many more to conduct," he said.
Border threat
In addition to questions about the assassination attempt against Trump, the FBI director was asked about the threat emanating from the southern U.S. border.
Over the past five or six years, the number of known or suspected terrorists encountered along the southern border "has increased," and "that should be of concern," Wray testified.
He also said that it doesn't take a lot of foreign terrorists to be a "real problem."
"I am increasingly concerned that foreign terrorists could seek to exploit vulnerabilities at our Southwest border or at other ports of entry or in other aspects of our immigration system to facilitate an attack here in the United States. I think that is something we have to be concerned about," he said.
Election threats
Wray also said the Russians are continuing attempts to "influence" and "in various ways interfere with our democracy."
"In fact, just in the last few weeks, we announced a significant disruption of a generative AI, enhanced social media and a bot farm, essentially of the Russians that was designed, designed to be an influence operation, and some of the fake, fictitious profiles of those bots purported to be US persons, so they're still at it," Wray said.
