Stopping Trans and Terror Attacks Before They Happen

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March 27 marked two years since Audrey Hale entered the Covenant School in Nashville and murdered nine-year old students Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney and Hallie Scruggs, daughter of Covenant Presbyterian pastor Chad Scruggs. Hale also shot dead school personnel Mike Hill, 61, Katherine Koonce, 60 and Cynthia Peak, 61. Response to the mass murder proved unusual in several ways.

Audrey Hale, 28 years old and a former student at the school, was a woman who thought she was a man. The killings took place in the run-up to the April 1 “Trans Day of Vengeance,” a possible indicator of motive. Murder victim Mike Hill was black but no word of racism on the part of Hale, a white woman, and little if anything about anti-Christian hatred or even “gun violence.” The Biden White House did not name or condemn the shooter, failed to name the victims, and portrayed the “trans community” as the party “under attack.” The actual victims told a different story.

As their autopsies revealed, all six died of multiple gunshot wounds and Hale applied post-mortem blunt force trauma to William Kinney and Katherine Koonce, acts of overkill suggesting they were primary targets. Hale charted her motive in a lengthy manifesto, but trans activists, local police, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation blocked release of the documents. That prompted presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to call out the FBI.

“I do believe they are hiding this manifesto,” Ramaswamy told reporters. “It still remains my feeling that if this had been a non-transgender shooter, we would have stuck to the longstanding practice in this country of being transparent within 48 hours.” Even partial release, Ramaswamy said, would help people  “to understand the state of mind of a mentally deranged individual who suffers from a mental health condition evidenced by gender dysphoria.” Blocking release of Hale’s manifesto was hardly the bureau’s only lapse.

The shooter’s internet postings had not prompted the FBI to regard Audrey Hale as a danger to the public, so the bureau did nothing to prevent the mass murder. By contrast in August of 2023, an FBI squad gunned down Craig Robertson, 75, based on statements about Joe Biden he had allegedly posted online.

While that shooting escaped independent investigation, journalists and First Amendment advocates pressed the bureau for release of Hale’s manifesto. The FBI wasn’t giving it up and last July Chancery court judge I’Ashea L. Myles, who boasts a “diverse and inclusive perspective,” ruled that the murderer’s writings could not be released to the public because the victims’ parents hold the copyright. That surely left copyright lawyers puzzled.

A written work is copyrighted from the time it is “fixed” in a tangible form, typed or written on paper, or in a computer. Audrey Hale held the copyright to her various journals and “manifesto,” but it is unclear whether she ever assigned the right to any other party, let alone the parents of those she murdered. A judge cannot perform such a transfer on behalf of the mass murderer who was shot dead by Nashville police. By all indications, this is where it stands two years after the fact. FBI director Kash Patel needs to revisit this horrific crime and surrounding conditions.

Under Biden, FBI bosses seemed to know a lot about pro-life activists, parents protesting trans propaganda in the schools, and the innocent Americans they smeared as “domestic terrorists,” “violent extremists” and so forth. What did the FBI know about Audrey Hale, and when did they know it? A federal bureau of “investigation” should have the answers. Did the FBI set up any surveillance on Hale? As the people should know, there’s a reason that’s important.

In 2009, the FBI was keeping tabs on Maj. Nidal Hasan, aware of his communications with al Qaeda terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki. Someone in the FBI’s Washington office dropped the surveillance, and in short order Hasan murdered 13 American soldiers at Fort Hood, three of them women. When Audrey Hale was gearing up in Nashville, did the FBI look the other way?

Which FBI official made the call to block release of Audrey Hale’s manifesto? Was it a directive from the Biden administration? As the people learned from the FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane” operation against candidate and President Trump, the bureau employs a veritable army of lawyers. Has any been tasked for an opinion on the copyright ruling by judge I’Ashea L. Myles?

As fans of “Forensic Files” understand, the FBI abounds with profilers and behavioral science experts. Has Audrey Hale’s manifesto rendered any wisdom on the dangers reality dysphoria poses to the public? Was reality dysphoria on display in the “Trans Day of Vengeance” and Hale’s mass murder in Nashville? The people have a right to know and Patel has other matters to consider.

The FBI employs many crime scene specialists and ballistics experts. Yet in his first pronouncement on the July 13, 2024 assassination attempt on Donald Trump, FBI director Christopher Wray said it might have been “shrapnel,” not a bullet, that struck the candidate. Kash Patel needs to reveal everything the bureau knows about the two attempts on Trump’s life, and successful attempts on the lives of others.

The FBI is still suppressing evidence in the murders of DHS whistleblower Philip Haney and DNC official Seth Rich. In both cases the FBI mounted no serious search for suspects. Haney’s autopsy was changed from homicide to suicide and the dead man’s seized materials were ruled to be “contraband,” effectively pronouncing the dead man a criminal. These cases are all about memory against forgetting, but Patel also needs to look ahead.

In January, when Border Patrol agent David Maland was murdered in Vermont, some observers suspected one of the criminal illegals Biden let in the country unvetted. Suspects in that case, and five others, now include a radical transgender cult centered in the San Francisco area. Known as “Zizians” after leader Jack Amadeus La Sota, who goes by “Ziz,” the cult is “a group of radical young people who mostly identify as transgender, who are known for their affinity for veganism and their link to violent killings.”

Maybe Kash Patel’s retooled FBI can stop one of the killings before it happens. And unlike Nashville in 2023, Fort Hood in 2009, San Bernardino in 2015, Boston in 2013 and Orlando in 2016, maybe the FBI could at least participate in the takedown of the killers. Rest assured the people will be watching.