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.
Thanks for adding in some more clarity. I worked as a cyber security analyst for the DoD for quite a while (IAT II level stuff) so I know it can get a little esoteric if you aren’t in that world. But absolutely, they may have found an index/pointers but the data itself was already overwritten. Or hell they could have found a thumbnail image stored in a cache somewhere that was clear enough. I was just trying to help people understand how something could be both “destroyed” and recovered at the same time. Language can depend on perspective sometimes, and none of us can really know the answer just based on verbage in a report. Could be the person talking to the press didn’t have a clear understanding. Either way it will be interesting to see what, if anything, comes of it.
Side note: since you brought up shredding, I thought I’d share the ridiculous process I had to go through when I was active duty. We had to use a crosscut shredder, dump it into a bucket of water to turn it into a slurry, let the slurry dry and then burn the remains lmao.