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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.

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[–] selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works 8 points 36 minutes ago

Shooter was a MAGAt from a MAGAt family. Left a note saying what he was going to do. So the 'government"'s response? Oh we gonna crack down on the left's violence and make it illegal to be a Democrat!

Fucking morons...

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

This is literal toddler-level finger pointing.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Newsweek. Its a tabloid and should not be used for serious discussion.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Toddlers can learn better.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

he "left" a note?

large scale left wing conspiracy confirmed

[–] badgermurphy@lemmy.world 1 points 13 minutes ago

He also had to write* it.

*alternative spelling

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I'm just kinda impressed that a political assassin has managed to follow the golden rule of having been arrested: shut the fuck up, repeat ad nauseum

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 15 minutes ago

That's the rule when you're a petty criminal, or a lawful person being investigated. When you are committing civil disobedience or terrorism, you fucking claim it.

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

I think this kid just wanted to be famous calling him left and right wing shows a clear lack of understanding the internet

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 hour ago

Damn liberals. So cunning that they recruited a right wing nut job to shoot a right wing nut job.

[–] Corelli_III@midwest.social 2 points 1 hour ago

smells like bullshit, maybe they will fuck up prosecution

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 hours ago

This is pathetic even by tinpot dictatorship standards.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

My guess would be that it was a note on some form of digital media. Say you make a document on your computer that you later delete. The data doesn't actually get deleted, your computer just removes the location from it's giant table of contents and marks the space "available to write". Typically that information can still be retrieved using software tools until it is actually overwritten, and even then there are exceptions. So yes, it is entirely plausible for them to have forensic evidence of a note that someone attempted to destroy.

[–] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 1 points 24 minutes ago

Except that isn't what he said. He didn't say that someone attempted to destroy it. He said it was destroyed.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 31 minutes ago

Or it just gets automatically uploaded to microsoft.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 63 points 11 hours ago

They read the note from golden plates inside a hat and then an angel took them to heaven.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 92 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

"It was kept in the home of the suspect and his alleged transgender partner,"

Why keep mentioning the transgender thing from just an allegation about someone who had nothing to do with this? These fuckers know exactly what the fuck they're doing.

[–] Krono@lemmy.today 6 points 1 hour ago

The governor finds a way to put "transgender" in every sentence, and at the same time he deliberately uses the wrong pronouns for this person.

They're doing it on purpose, and it is disgusting.

[–] pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip 70 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

We found a note where he said he did this in honor of his black transgender immigrant girlfriend named Marxina McWoke. But the dog ate it.

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

This is toddler shit. Fucking clowns.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 28 points 12 hours ago

The note probably also said that he was the one who messed with the 2020 elections so that Trump didn't win. And also the note said that he had planned all the wildfires that have hit USA recently.

In a few months he will probably also confess to spreading the Covid Virus in the US

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 51 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

The note says that Biden personally asked him to do it. But it’s magically disappeared. There is not note. Stop asking about the note.

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 15 points 11 hours ago

The note is among the Epstein files. They don't exist.

[–] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 29 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Either he's lying or someone is committing the crime destruction of evidence.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 34 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

It was destroyed when his Canadian girfriend and his dad who works for Nintendo were fighting over it.

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 9 points 11 hours ago

I heard the note was deep within the source code of Half Life 3

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 71 points 17 hours ago

Patel, speaking to Fox & Friends on Monday, said the FBI had "forensic evidence" of the note, but that it had "since been destroyed."

So there was no note

[–] ceph@lemmy.world 25 points 14 hours ago

I'd be more inclined to believe the FBI if it wasn't gutted and ransacked only to be run by the stupidest doofuses to ever have existed.

[–] besselj@lemmy.ca 147 points 19 hours ago (7 children)
[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 121 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

No, but he LEFT it. It was a note that was LEFT.

[–] magikmw@piefed.social 6 points 12 hours ago

He wrote on it left to right. Wake up!

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[–] pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip 27 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It was assigned “blank piece of paper” at birth, then transitioned into “paper with words on it”. Case closed. Arrest everyone.

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[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

It was tumbling in the wind of a Transstar truck

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[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 55 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

It’s been less than a WEEK, and they DESTROYED the NOTE??

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 32 points 16 hours ago

In their defense, Charlie Kirk picked a bad time to be assassinated. It's luau week the FBI, and things can get very messy and flamey at the office.

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 23 points 16 hours ago

How convenient for them.

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[–] j_roby@slrpnk.net 122 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (16 children)

I read a ~~great thread on Bluesky earlier~~ detailing how many times Kash Patel may have completely botched this case by all the stupid things he's said on FOX today. Definitely worth a read!

*Edit to add ~~Skyview thread unroll link~~

*Edit #2: it was pointed out in the comment below that many folks in the thread I linked are calling into question the OOP's claims and professional background. After a brief view myself, there is at least one person within those comments whom I do believe when they say its "full of errors"
I'm leaving my original comment up for now for posterity sake, but I am more than willing to remove it if that would be more appropriate.

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

Upvoting for honesty.

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[–] FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works 72 points 19 hours ago

concepts of evidence

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