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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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[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days 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

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 11 points 3 days ago

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

[–] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 40 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It it just me or is there a rather important "Kash Patel says" missing from the headline?

And this right-wing policy of finding someone trans to mention in every report of a shooting, no matter how tangential or irrelevant their transness may be, just so the public can make a good solid mental association between trans people and dangerous violence, is absolutely disgusting.

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[–] zd9@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago

Source: trust me bro

[–] ceph@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days 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.

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

I mean, who hasn’t?

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)

was it destroyed along with Kash's Meth Stash at that vet clinic?

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[–] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 29 points 3 days ago (5 children)

“Forensic evidence.” So, like, bro said “he totes wrote a note” and then someone uses science to say “there was paper over here; must be where the note went!” Is this the kind of Keystone cops bullshit we’re being asked to believe?

[–] tehmics@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

If there's evidence, then it should be producible. A notepad with the imprint of the removed page. A hard drive with the deleted and recovered data. You don't get to hide behind the term 'forensic', saying 'trust us bro'.

So what kind of forensic evidence? Show it.

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[–] ileftreddit@piefed.social 24 points 3 days ago

The fact that anyone believes a word out of Patels mouth is literally hilarious

[–] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Isn't this just poisoning the well so he cant get a fair trial? If I were this dude's lawyer, I'd be jumping up and down in court (with glee) to get a gag order in this asshat.

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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 16 points 3 days ago

He wasn't an activist; he was a propagandist.

[–] Corelli_III@midwest.social 6 points 2 days ago

smells like bullshit, maybe they will fuck up prosecution

Probably the old school getting a print from the second page press-through impression on a notepad.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 days ago (4 children)

"The roommate was a romantic partner, a male transitioning to female," Cox said. "I can say that he has been incredibly cooperative, this partner has been very cooperative, had no idea that this was happening."

I think that would he she, you misgendering motherfucker.

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[–] robocall@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is it possible that Kash Patel fucks up this case so hard that the guy walks free?

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

Even if he does walk free, they're going to drag it out as long as they can to make his life hell. Just like they're doing with Luigi.

[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 16 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Is this the thing where they dust for the imprint left behind through the previous page on a notebook.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

We don't know because they haven't done the proper investigation and they're just leaking crap left and right just fueling speculation and conspiracy theories that leads the right to continue to call for violence.

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[–] whiwake@lemmy.cafe 12 points 3 days ago

No this is the one where the handwriting matches the fed who found the note

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[–] kieron115@startrek.website 5 points 3 days ago (5 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.

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