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Suspicious by the FBI

Things citizen investigators flag as suspicious about the FBI specifically — its handling of evidence, witnesses, other agencies, and the public narrative. State and local conduct is tracked under Suspicious by Law Enforcement; the broader intelligence community under Suspicious by US Intel. Every item is an attributed claim; no FBI employee named here has been charged with or found to have done anything wrong.

The numbered list​

  1. The banned CBLA bullet-lead test — a technique the FBI abandoned in 2005, reportedly back after the ATF came back inconclusive
  2. Local police reportedly told not to investigate — witness contact centralized, DNA testing stopped, a sergeant who could not recall who decided
  3. Ryne Simmons reportedly told to delete his 4K video — with follow-up calls to confirm it was gone
  4. Feds directed the re-search that found the rifle — hands found nothing, dogs found nothing, then it was found
  5. Patel reportedly shut down the Kent probe — the FBI director's role in halting the foreign-nexus question
  6. Enhanced stairwell photos released after custody — Baron Coleman on "selling a culprit"
  7. FBI and ATF reportedly withholding discovery — files held since September, and a 600,000-document dump
  8. Bomb dogs reportedly kept from parts of the scene — and the missing gunshot-residue test
  9. Selective 4K release versus the FBI gag claim — crisp tribute-video clips from footage that could not be released
  10. A surgeon reportedly blocked from Kirk's room — unsourced, and consistent with ordinary scene control
  11. The FBI Rav4 that reportedly flashed a badge — an unmarked federal vehicle near the scene, minutes after
  12. SUV destroyed and the ADL floor-sharing claim — two low-confidence optics complaints

What makes this section different​

The FBI items divide cleanly into evidence-handling claims and narrative-control claims, and the first group is far stronger than the second. Item 1 is the most substantive thing on this page, and notably it did not come from a social-media thread — it came out of the defense's own filings by way of Andrea Burkhart's document analysis. The ATF fragment examination reportedly found only class characteristics, meaning Robinson's Mauser 98 "could not be excluded" but could not be individually identified either. What follows is a proposal for "metallurgical" testing, and investigators infer that means CBLA — the compositional bullet-lead technique the FBI itself retired in 2005 after a National Research Council review questioned its scientific and statistical validity. Read the counterargument on that page carefully: "metallurgical" is a broad word, and the inference may be wrong.

The narrative-control items are weaker but not empty. Item 3 has a named witness on the record describing his own experience, which is worth more than an anonymous claim, even though "we already have your original, please don't distribute a murder video" is both a completely ordinary request and exactly what the account describes. Item 2's strongest component is Sergeant Jennifer Faumuina's reported preliminary-hearing testimony that recovered items were sent for DNA analysis and then testing stopped, and that she could not recall who made that call. That is a question a court can answer.

Items 10 through 12 are here because listing a weak claim honestly is better than letting it circulate unlabeled. The surgeon item and the Rav4 item have no cited source at all — not a link, not a name, not a timestamp — and both describe conduct that is entirely normal: securing a homicide victim's room is chain-of-custody practice, and an agent showing credentials at a traffic stop is how agents are supposed to identify themselves. The ADL floor-sharing claim concerns a landlord's tenant roster, over which no agency has any say. If these items are ever going to mean anything, someone has to produce a source; until then they are anomalies in search of a fact.