FBI Told Police to Suppress ‘Confusing’ Nashville School Shooter’s Manifesto: Might Stoke ‘Conspiracy Theories’

The Biden Department’s FBI actively discouraged police from releasing Nashville Christian school shooter Audrey Hale’s manifesto, claiming it would fuel “conspiracy theories” by “confusing or potentially inflaming the public,” a leaked memo reveals.

Hale gunned down six people, including three children, inside Nashville’s Covenant School last March 27. Although local authorities confirmed the existence of numerous writings which could help explain Hale’s murderous actions, they have never officially released a single page for public consumption. The memo reveals that their 14-month-long inaction reflects the wishes of the Biden administration.

A conservative news outlet, the Tennessee Star, obtained a memo which the FBI’s Critical Incident Response Group addressed to Metropolitan Nashville Policy Chief John Drake, encouraging the force to keep Hale’s writings under wraps. Releasing “legacy tokens,” such as a shooter’s manifesto, “will contribute to future attacks,” the FBI warns.

The FBI also claims that reading the mass child murderer’s handwritten explanations might mislead readers about her motivation. “Very often legacy tokens do not provide a cogent or coherent rendering of the facts leading up to an attack,” the memo asserts. The FBI also couched its denial as tough-on-crime, arguing that releasing anything written by Hale, who began receiving psychological treatment at the age of six, might convince the American people that all mass shooters are mentally ill.

But chief among the reasons proffered by the FBI — which is part of the Biden administration’s Justice Department — is preventing the spread of “conspiracy theories” by “pontificators” and “self-professed ‘experts.” The memo states:

“Public access to legacy tokens will also facilitate false narratives and inaccurate information. For personal gain, self-professed ‘experts’ will proffer their perspectives on the motivations behind the attack. Many of these pontificators will be inexperienced or untrained, and therefore inaccurate in their assessment, further confusing or potentially inflaming the public. This also may lead to unintended consequences for the segment of the population more vulnerable or open to conspiracy theories, which will undoubtedly abound.”

The FBI advised Police Chief Drake, “There is existing precedent for not releasing legacy token materials to the public, most notably the decision to destroy the ‘Basement Tapes’ produced by the offenders of the Columbine High School attack.”

The Tennessee Star obtained dozens of pages of writings from Audrey Hale, who also went by the male transgender name “Aiden.” Their reporting reveals she viscerally adopted concepts found in extreme gender ideology and critical race theory, as well as suffering from profound depression and gender dysphoria. She also took a number of prescription drugs with potentially violent side effects.

The unsigned FBI memo — which included the participation of the Behavioral Threat Assessment Center (BTAC), the home of the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU-1) — was written last May 11, just days after the Tennessee Star filed a lawsuit requesting Hale’s writings.

“[T]he context is like a wink-wink, nod-nod, don’t make these public and remember that the Columbine basement tapes were destroyed,” former Metro Nashville Police Detective Lieutenant Garet Davidson told Nashville radio host Brian Wilson last Tuesday.

Nashville police officials appear to have listened, never releasing Hale’s writings, which are littered with transgender ideology. The diary-like entries obtained by the Star come from a notebook recovered from Hale’s car after the shooting. Hale brought three weapons — a nine-millimeter semiautomatic pistol, a 9mm carbine, and an AR-15 — and a profound amount of ammunition as she claimed the lives of three children in the third grade: Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney, and Hallie Scruggs, all nine years old; and three members of the Covenant School staff: head of school Katherine Koonce, 60; substitute teacher Cynthia Peak, 61; and custodian Mike Hill, 61.

Nashville talk show host Brian Wilson stated that federal policies caused U.S. taxpayers to fund Hale’s shooting inadvertently, divulging that Hale used the proceeds of federal Pell Grants to pay for the weapons. Altogether, the deadly instruments cost an estimated $2,619.68. The Biden administration has sought to increase the amount of Pell Grants.

The Biden administration has a record of sweeping unpleasant facts under the rug. It suppressed a whistleblower complaint about an Ukrainian official with the energy company Burisma saying that he bribed the Biden family, and most recently refused to release the recordings of Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur that reportedly show the president as unfocused and suffering from deep memory problems.

The president, vice president, many Cabinet members, and every Democratic elected official of note has personally endorsed transgender procedures for minors. The Biden administration has threatened to withhold federal funding for school lunches and food stamps from school districts that do not allow males who identify as female to use the restrooms, showers, and overnight accommodations of the opposite sex. The Biden White House published a presidential proclamation celebrating the “Transgender Day of Visibility” before releasing his message for Easter. He has implied that God created young people with gender dysphoria. When the administration invited Rose Montoya, a transgender male who identifies as a woman, to the White House for last year’s Pride Month celebration, the male flashed his chemically-enhanced breasts to national exposure.

Although Biden’s Justice Department has aggressively prosecuted pro-life advocates, it has taken no action against the predatory transgender industry.

“Gender confusion is a disorder, and ‘gender-affirming care’ should mean helping people overcome that confusion,” wrote Mark Krikorian, an immigration scholar with the Center for Immigration Studies, who rarely comments on cultural affairs. “Glorifying it will only lead to more crazies killing people.”