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.
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.
Or it just gets automatically uploaded to microsoft.
Except that isn’t what he said. He didn’t say that someone attempted to destroy it. He said it was destroyed.
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?