FBI RELEASE MORE LEAKED MESSAGES FROM TYLER ROBINSON

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The FBI is reviewing the Discord chat where Robinson is believed to have posted.

On Monday, FBI Director Kash Patel said some people assume agents can access group chats instantly to see who was involved. In reality, he said, scores of users were in the room.

After Charlie Kirk’s accused killer allegedly confessed in a Discord chat, legal experts say others in the group are unlikely to face charges unless investigators find proof of active involvement.

Suspect Tyler Robinson posted in a Discord group hours before his arrest, writing, “Hey guys, I have bad news for you all…It was me at UVU yesterday…I’m sorry for all of this.”

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., pressed Patel Tuesday on how the FBI was working to identify possible accomplices or people who may have encouraged Robinson.

“So, in terms of what we do for an interrogation perspective, we go and reach out to the family and community immediately. And we’ve conducted those investigations and interrogations with local law enforcement, and we’re continuing to do that because those closest to the suspect are going to hopefully know the most about the suspect and his beliefs and his ideology,” Patel said.

“On top of that, unfortunately, it has been leaked, that there was a Discord chat. And for those unfamiliar with it, it’s a gaming chat room online that the suspect participated in.”

“So, what we’re doing – and we’ve already done – is serve legal process, not just on Discord, so that the information we gathered is sustained and held in an evidentiary posture that we could use in prosecution should it be decided to do so. And we’re also going to be investigating anyone and everyone involved in that Discord chat,” Patel continued.

Hawley then asked about public reports suggesting the Discord thread had as many as 20 additional users.

“It’s a lot more than that, and we’re running them all down,” Patel said.

Legal scholars say that simply seeing or ignoring a confession online is not, by itself, a crime.

“It’s not a crime to see people confessing to a crime. It’s not [a] crime to do nothing about that. You can see or hear someone say, ‘yes, I murdered someone,’ and just ignore it. It’s just not illegal as a general matter to do that,” said Eugene Volokh, Professor Emeritus at UCLA Law School and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford.