Overview

• Sources with knowledge of the investigation confirm that the FBI, the Bureau of Prisons and the DOJ inspector general retain a version covering the 11:59 p.m. to midnight interval that was omitted from the public release.
• The footage released in early July skips from 11:58:58 p.m. directly to 12:00:00 a.m. despite being labeled “full raw” by the Justice Department and FBI.
• Metadata analysis by forensic experts shows the released file was created on May 23 as a screen capture stitched from two separate clips and slightly sped up to about 10 hours and 53 minutes.
• Attorney General Pam Bondi has attributed the timestamp gap to nightly resets of the prison’s outdated recording system, an explanation video specialists have described as highly unusual.
• Lawmakers across party lines and watchdog groups are demanding immediate release of the complete tape and an investigation into its handling to restore public confidence.