Transactional Analysis
16th June 2024
The Tennessee Star has released more excerpts from the diary of mass murderer Audrey Hale, who on March 27, 2023, gunned down nine-year-olds Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney, along with Katherine Koonce, 60, Cynthia Peak and Mike Hill, both 61. Hale wrote of her “imaginary penis,” proclaiming “I am such a pervert” wasting “too much time in my fantasies,” and so forth. See here, and here and here, for example, but as John Lott notes, “it turns out that behind the scenes, the FBI had fought hard against the diary’s release.”
According to the FBI’s Behavioral Threat Assessment Center (BTAC), releasing the diary could have “unintended consequences for the segment of the population more vulnerable or open to conspiracy theories, which will undoubtedly abound.” Self-professed “experts,” the FBI fears, will “proffer their perspectives” in the press. As Lott sees it, “the news media and the FBI under the Biden administration are attempting to control the information available to Americans about a mentally troubled woman who identified as a man. The Biden administration is free to argue against linking transgender issues to mental illness or mass murder, but censoring the information is not the right approach.” Americans also have a right to wonder why the FBI was involved in the first place.
As with terrorist mass murders at Fort Hood in 2009 (14 dead), San Bernardino in 2015 (14 dead) and Orlando in 2016 ( 49 dead), the FBI did nothing to prevent Hale’s carefully planned attack. The FBI shows up after the fact to block evidence dealing with the killer’s motive, the central question in any murder case. This should come as no surprise.