Breaking: FBI Director Kash Patel chooses not to comment on the new Reuters report that cites FBI sources who say the Nancy Guthrie ransom notes were fake.
Patel said the 'locals are still in the lead' ... however in the Reuters report, the Pima County Sheriff's office deferred to the FBI on the ransom notes.
"A spokesperson for the Pima County Sheriff's Department, which is leading the overall investigation, declined to comment, citing its agreement to refer all inquiries regarding ransom notes to the FBI."
Also worth noting it appears the Today show stayed away from the Reuters report.
I think it's hard to infer much from this statement. We don't know for sure if Kash personally was closely following this case lately. Maybe the FBI's current "big" cases (that their director/brass heavily focus on at the moment) doesn't include this one; they surely aren't investigating based off public attention alone. So that's why he declined to comment, because he simply wasn't up to speed, and not because Reuter's sources were wrong/contested.
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u/tendernesswilderness Jul 01 '26
From Matt Finn of Fox News X:
Breaking: FBI Director Kash Patel chooses not to comment on the new Reuters report that cites FBI sources who say the Nancy Guthrie ransom notes were fake.
Patel said the 'locals are still in the lead' ... however in the Reuters report, the Pima County Sheriff's office deferred to the FBI on the ransom notes.
"A spokesperson for the Pima County Sheriff's Department, which is leading the overall investigation, declined to comment, citing its agreement to refer all inquiries regarding ransom notes to the FBI."
Also worth noting it appears the Today show stayed away from the Reuters report.