司法观察组织主席托马斯·菲特顿在接受福克斯新闻数字版独家采访时，猛烈抨击联邦调查局在处理与托马斯·马修·克鲁克斯2024年对唐纳德·特朗普总统暗杀企图相关文件的发布时采取拖延策略。"他们告诉我们，按照目前的处理速度，整个过程将需要12年。在联邦调查局的时间表下，我们甚至要等到12年后才能对他们所隐瞒的内容提出质疑。这显然是不可接受的，我想知道联邦调查局和司法部的领导层对此持什么立场。"菲特顿对福克斯新闻数字版说道。
Judicial Watch President Thomas Fitton slammed the FBI for slow-walking the release of documents related to Thomas Matthew Crooks' 2024 assassination attempt on President Donald Trump during an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital. "They are telling us that at current processing rates, the process will take 12 years. Under the FBI's timeline, we won't even be able to challenge what they withheld until 12 years from now. That is obviously unacceptable, and I would like to know what leadership at the FBI and DOJ think about that position," Fitton told Fox News Digital.
司法观察组织于2025年对美国司法部（DOJ）提起诉讼，原因是联邦调查局最初拒绝了其于2024年7月提出的《信息自由法案》（FOIA）请求，该请求涉及联邦调查局对托马斯·马修·克鲁克斯在宾夕法尼亚州巴特勒市集会上对特朗普总统暗杀企图的调查文件。
Judicial Watch sued the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in 2025 after the FBI initially rejected a July 2024 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for documents pertaining to the FBI investigation of Thomas Matthew Crooks' assassination attempt on Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
特朗普遇刺嫌疑人在巴特勒宾州枪击前发送关于3D打印机的神秘短信：报道 该诉讼迫使联邦调查局向司法观察组织陆续释放多批文件，其中最近的一批揭示了克鲁克斯发送给一名未知接收者的一系列短信，而该接收者的姓名在文件被送达司法观察组织之前已被联邦调查局涂黑。"我们之所以能收到这些文件，是因为它们属于调查的一部分，但我们却不知道他当时在和谁通话。"菲特顿对福克斯新闻数字版说道。
TRUMP'S ATTEMPTED ASSASSIN SENT MYSTERIOUS TEXTS ABOUT 3D PRINTER LEADING UP TO BUTLER, PA, SHOOTING: REPORT The lawsuit forced the release of multiple batches of documents to Judicial Watch, the most recent of which revealed a series of text messages Crooks sent to an unknown recipient, whose name the FBI redacted before sending to Judicial Watch. "We’re receiving these documents because they're part of the investigation, yet we’re not being told who he was talking to," Fitton told Fox News Digital.
共和党议员对特朗普巴特勒枪击案嫌疑人的新情况感到震惊：'这太奇怪了' "隐瞒这一信息是一个非常令人担忧的决定。美国人民希望确定这不是另一个肯尼迪遇刺事件。当局如此处理此事，实际上是在制造掩盖真相的假象。在某种程度上，这确实是事实，因为他们没有提供克鲁克斯在和谁通话、谁在给他发短信、他们在说什么，或者谁目睹了具体行为的细节。隐瞒这些信息完全没有道理。"他说道。
GOP LAWMAKERS BLINDSIDED BY NEW REVELATIONS ABOUT TRUMP BUTLER SHOOTER: 'AWFULLY STRANGE' "Withholding that information is a very concerning decision. The American people want to be certain this isn't another JFK situation. By handling it this way, authorities are creating the appearance of a cover-up. In part, that's true, because they aren't providing details about who Crooks was talking to, who was texting him, what they were saying, or who witnessed specific actions. It makes no sense to withhold this," he said.
文件显示，克鲁克斯在2023年5月至2024年1月期间，向一名被隐去姓名的接收者发送了一系列单词或双词短信。这些词语看似毫无关联，且有些莫名其妙。
The documents revealed a series of one or two-word texts Crooks sent to the redacted recipient between May 2023 and January 2024. The words appear unrelated and somewhat nonsensical.
想刺杀特朗普的托马斯·克鲁克斯拥有Snapchat账号，前FBI特工称其可能藏有证据“宝藏”：“你好……你好 红……你好 红…… Hdudhdbdbbd…… 7888ejdj…… Yolo…… Ddodjjf…… 890…… Hdjd…… Djdj…… 红…… 是的 红…… 你好…… Jhhhuuh…… Hhdj…… Jjjjjjjjjjjj…… 你好 红…… 红 红，”克鲁克斯的短信内容显示。
WOULD-BE TRUMP ASSASSIN THOMAS CROOKS HAD SNAPCHAT, WHICH MAY HOLD EVIDENCE 'TREASURE TROVE': FORMER FBI AGENT "Hello … Hello red …Hello red … Hdudhdbdbbd … 7888ejdj … Yolo … Ddodjjf … 890 … Hdjd … Djdj … red … Yup red … Hello … Jhhhuuh … Hhdj … Jjjjjjjjjjjj … Hello red … Red red," Crooks' messages said.
菲顿在承认克鲁克斯任何潜在通讯对象享有合理隐私期待的同时，辩称FBI“必须将这种隐私期待与公共利益进行权衡”。监察机构称：特勤局错失“多次机会”阻止特朗普遇刺案。“公众有利益去了解一位前总统为何差点被杀害——以及两名美国公民为何丧生——这超过了受这些文件保护的任何人的隐私利益。除非法院加快进程，否则我们只能公开发声，施压FBI和司法部承担责任，停止在巴特勒遇刺案调查中拖延美国民众，”他对福克斯新闻数字频道表示。
Fitton, while acknowledging that any potential correspondents with Crooks have a reasonable expectation of privacy, argued that the FBI "must weigh that expectation of privacy against the public interest." SECRET SERVICE MISSED 'MULTIPLE OPPORTUNITIES' TO PREVENT TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT: WATCHDOG "The public interest in understanding how a former president was nearly killed – and two American citizens were killed – outweighs the privacy interests of anyone being protected in these documents. Unless the court speeds up the process, all we can do is speak out publicly to pressure the FBI and the Department of Justice to take ownership and stop stringing the American people along regarding the Butler assassination investigation," he told Fox News Digital.
司法观察组织此前通过《信息自由法》获得的另一批文件还显示，在克鲁克斯爬上AGR国际大楼屋顶开枪前不久，他曾与地面上的集会参加者发生激烈争吵。
A previous batch of documents Judicial Watch obtained through FOIA also revealed that, shortly before Crooks climbed onto the roof of the AGR International building where he fired his weapon from, he engaged in a heated argument with rally attendees on the ground.
两名在特朗普巴特勒集会中中枪的男子起诉联邦政府，指控特勤局存在“可预防的失职”。“托马斯·克鲁克斯在集会上公开表现出反常行为。这不是有人偷偷摸摸跑来跑去的情况；他因特朗普问题与人发生口角争吵，随即爬上了屋顶。这简直令人难以置信，”菲顿对福克斯新闻数字频道表示。
TWO MEN SHOT AT TRUMP'S BUTLER RALLY SUE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OVER SECRET SERVICE 'PREVENTABLE FAILURES' "Thomas Crooks was behaving erratically in a very public way at the rally. This wasn't a case of someone furtively running around; he was getting into a verbal altercation with individuals about Trump and then immediately went up onto the roof. That just blows my mind," Fitton told Fox News Digital.
Fitton抱怨说，涉及枪击事件的文件数量之多，需要更快的发布流程。"整个发布流程涉及大约75,000页。以每月500页的速度，审查所有文件将需要超过12年。对我来说，这是不可接受的,"他对福克斯新闻数字版说道。"这其实并不难。我相信总统希望尽快完成，而FBI采取其通常的透明度做法——也就是提供甚少信息——令人感到沮丧,"他说。福克斯新闻数字版已联系FBI和美国特勤局以获取评论。
Fitton complained that the shear numbers of the documents involved in the shooting call for a faster release process. "The entire release process involves approximately 75,000 pages. At 500 pages per month, it will take well over 12 years to review them all. To me, that is unacceptable," he told Fox News Digital. "It isn't that hard. I believe the president wants it done, and it’s frustrating that the FBI is taking its typical approach to transparency—which is to offer very little," he said. Fox News Digital contacted the FBI and U.S. Secret Service for comment.