In the wake of the Charlie Kirk murder investigation, you would think that the intelligence agencies would act in solidarity to inform a confused and horrified public. Instead, infighting continually between intelligence agencies continues to muddy the waters and potentially make the intelligence establishment loose sight of a simple reality. Their pupose, in this instance, is to uncover the truth about the murder of Charlie Kirk.
An anonymous source from the New York Times alleged there was an intelligence service rift developing between the FBI and the National Counterterrorism Center over Joe Kent’s accessing of FBI files relating to his investigation of whether foreign entities were involved in the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Charlie Kirk was shot during a TPUSA event at Utah Valley University on the 10th September ,2025. Police later arrested suspect Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old man who is alleged to have expressed disdain towards Kirk.
No evidence has been presented of foreign entity involvement in Kirk’s death, but prominent conservative commentators have asked questions around the investigation, and some have even gone further to accuse Israel of potential involvement in the murder. The latter has been fuelled by conservative commentators like Candace Owens, who has insisted on Israel’s involvement in Kirk’s death.
While Tyler Robinson, 22, has been charged with murder, at this stage police officials believe he acted alone.
The credibility of the New York Times’s source has been brought into question, but prominent critics of the intelligence establishment have already cast doubt over the credibility over Kash Patel’s motives.
Candace Owens wrote on X, “This article is literally about how Kash Patel is upset that Joe Kent and Tulsi Gabbard are trying to do their jobs and solve the Charlie Kirk murder case. I do not trust him at all,”
Dr. Simon Goddeck, a libertarian research scientist, took to X, “First he helped bury the Epstein client list. Now he’s shutting down investigations into whether foreign actors were involved in the assassination of Charlie Kirk. KASH PATEL IS THE SWAMP.”
Owens has provided no compelling evidence of any foreign involvement in Kirk’s death but the bigger embarrassment is how public fronts by the intelligence establishment are undermined by the perception of infighting for dominance over investigative powers.
Patel and Gabbard made a joint statement about the murder investigation:
The FBI and intelligence community under the direction of President Trump will leave no stone unturned in the investigation of the assassination of our friend, Charlie Kirk.”
But perhaps the issue is who exactly will be ‘lifting the stones’. After Congress recently considered moving counterintelligence authority to the director of national intelligence under Tulsi Gabbard, the FBI wrote a strongly worded letter to Congress opposing the potential move.
“The cumulative effect would be putting decision-making with employees who aren’t actively involved in Cl operations, knowledgeable of the intricacies of Cl threats, or positioned to develop coherent and tailored mitigation strategies.”
“The FBI has consistently articulated its strong objection to the proposal, and believes it would cause serious and long-lasting damage to the US national security”
The irony in all this back and forth between the FBI and Congress is that figures like Patel were central to Trump’s ‘drain the swamp’ campaign philosophy. Both Patel and Gabbard are Trump’s appointments. Nevertheless, Patel’s insistence on not giving authority to Gabbard’s intelligence branch is surely an example of the same petty in-fighting that Patel insisted on stamping out of Washington’s political bureaucratic structures.
If America’s intelligence agencies are part of the same efforts to find the truth about Charlie Kirk’s murder, isn’t the sharing of intelligence a key component of this apparatus?
Sadly, this is occurring at a time when the American public wants to know the truth about Charlie Kirk’s murder.
At a time where the American public needs unity, there appears to be a battle for control between the intelligence agencies. Meanwhile, the American public wants and needs to know what happened to Charlie Kirk.
