FBI Director Kash Patel said Tyler Robinson, the suspected killer of Charlie Kirk, wrote a note stating his intention to “take out” the influential conservative activist.
Patel, speaking to Fox & Friends on Monday, said the FBI had “forensic evidence” of the note, but that it had “since been destroyed.”
They have a note but it’s been destroyed. Yeah, nothing fishy about this BS at all and it goes without saying completely incompetent that they continue to leak half baked, incomplete investigative information.
Maybe I should have left that out, that’s just me analyzing it too much. But lets say you shred a document. You would probably say that you’ve destroyed that document. If someone then took the pieces from the trash and painstakingly put them back together into a readable document, did you still destroy it? Or did you attempt to destroy it?
That would be an attempt. There is a reason why US DoD regulations have required levels of “shredding.” The method must make the material unable to be reassembled. His wording said they had forensic evidence of a note, but the note was destroyed. This implies they no longer can give that note to the people asking for evidence. If his team was able to reassemble it, then he could have given that evidence over. He was very clear that he was unable to provide any evidence.
Now, what he might have meant was they found pointers to a memory location on a harddrive that had truly been wiped. A simplistic analogy would be like how Word shows you recently edited documents, but if you change the name of a document outside of Word it will not be a correct pointer when you try to select it from history in Word. There might be forensic evidence pointing to a file that was created, but they cannot access the file due to an ACTUAL deletion.