Law enforcement officials have identified a 22-year-old Utah man Tyler Robinson as the suspect in the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, and according to the latest reporting, it was one of Robinson’s family members who turned him in to the authorities.
These are obviously encouraging developments, though they don’t erase recent questions surrounding FBI Director Kash Patel and his competence.
On Wednesday afternoon, for example, Patel suggested via social media that Kirk’s shooter had been captured. That wasn’t true, and the bureau’s director was forced to walk that back soon after.
“It was amateur hour,” Sen. Dick Durbin, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, told HuffPost. “He was doing a running commentary. Historically, the FBI keeps its mouth closed until it believes it’s the right time and the right message.”
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