{"id":7690,"date":"2025-09-12T09:59:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T13:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=7690"},"modified":"2025-09-12T10:26:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T14:26:15","slug":"federal-officials-bungled-kirk-assassination-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2025\/09\/12\/federal-officials-bungled-kirk-assassination-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Officials Bungled Kirk Assassination Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the consensus as Utah state law enforcement appears to have a man in custody.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times reports that Kash Patel angrily lashed out at his aides on Thursday over the slow pace of the <a class=\"rm-stats-tracked\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/11\/us\/politics\/fbi-patel-kirk-shooting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlie Kirk murder<\/a> <a class=\"rm-stats-tracked\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/st\/raw_story_investigates\">investigation<\/a> <a class=\"rm-stats-tracked\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/11\/us\/politics\/fbi-patel-kirk-shooting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">during a tense meeting at FBI headquarters.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Late Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/josh-shapiro-condemns-trump-charlie-kirk_n_68c3f2c8e4b072943c566298?origin=home-latest-news-unit\">Gov. Josh Shapiro put Trump on blast for his &#8216;Dangerous&#8217; response To Charlie Kirk&#8217;s killing<\/a>. This morning, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/foxs-brian-kilmeade-says-fbi-in-disarray-while-investigating-charlie-kirk-killing\/\">Fox &amp; Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade declared the FBI may be &#8220;in disarray.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/tv\/thats-the-last-thing-you-wanna-do-former-fbi-bigwig-dumbfounded-by-kash-patels-trip-to-utah-amid-manhunt\/\">Mediaite<\/a>, &#8220;Former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe said he was &#8216;at a loss to understand&#8217; why FBI Director Kash Patel visited Utah amid the ongoing search for Charlie Kirk\u2019s killer. \u2026 [T]hat\u2019s the last thing you wanna do to the field office while they\u2019re in the middle of investigating a critical incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In strong contrast, Utah&#8217;s law enforcement organizations have given the appearance of pulling out all the stops. In a Thursday evening news briefing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/watch-suspected-charlie-kirk-shooter-jumps-from-rooftop-in-newly-revealed-footage-of-bold-escape\/\">the state released more surveillance footage<\/a> showing a person of interest running across the roof of a Utah Valley University building in what appears to be an effort to escape the scene of Kirk&#8217;s killing.<\/p>\n<p>A security expert <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishstar.com\/news\/us-news\/charlie-kirk-100-percent-killed-35892283\">reportedly warned Kirk<\/a> of a &#8220;100%&#8221; chance of being killed while speaking at university campuses.<\/p>\n<p>Neofascost Rep. Bob Onder (R-Mo.) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/bob-onder-charlie-kirk-killing-american-left-pure-evil_n_68c36c9be4b0bf6c8bfec0a1?origin=home-latest-news-unit\">faced backlash on Thursday<\/a> for railing against left-leaning Americans following Kirk&#8217;s killing.<\/p>\n<p>In strong contrast, former congressman &#8211; and former Republican &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/charlie-kirk-2673988719\/\">Joe Walsh shared a scathing analysis of Kirk that had been written before the shooting on his Substack.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a public relations staffer for the NFL\u2019s Carolina Panthers has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article312064968.html\">reportedly been fired over a controversial Instagram post<\/a> about the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk. And <a class=\"rm-stats-tracked\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/charlie-kirk-death-secret-service-employee-sent-on-leave-for-calling-donald-trump-ally-racist-9262749\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NDTV reports a member<\/a> of the US Secret Service has been placed on administrative leave for allegedly calling Kirk a &#8220;racist&#8221; and his assassination &#8220;karma&#8221; on social media.<\/p>\n<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2025\/09\/12\/charlie-kirk-death-video-kids-teens\/\">&#8220;\u2018My kid has seen this. Now what?\u2019: Parents reel as Charlie Kirk video goes viral&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 and other sideshows in the wake of the misogynist bigot&#8217;s assassination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7690"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7741,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7690\/revisions\/7741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}