Kash Patel

And if you look across all those cases and all those criminals, they vary in how they have their operational security, whether it's good, bad, or in between.

So it's almost impossible to decipher exactly every single piece of information that led this individual to say, I'll use my credit card on this day, but I'll use cash on the next day.

We'll try to develop that out so we can provide the public with a clear picture.

But it's not unusual to have mixed operational security, really good on one day and then maybe a slip up on the next day.

Big time.

five years passed five years have passed so this individual was basically out there saying i got away with it i mean yeah he's not he's not a he's not a stupid person and he sees the news and he sees the videos and he sees the commentary on social media and on tv and he's probably watching it saying okay maybe i'm uh maybe i'm off the hook we don't know the definitive answer

This is what FBI agents do.

When you put them out in the field to investigate crimes, this is what they're trained to do.

They go out to the community.

They go out to the stores.

They go out and use video surveillance.

They go out and say, hey, this is a local community in Northern Virginia that this individual supposedly resided in for a period of time.

Do you know this guy?

Did he come into your store?

I'm just speaking generally.

Did he buy this specific product?

Because in a lot of these stores, it's unusual to walk in and buy one or two of these things at any one time.

Did he do it again over the course of time?

And this is just a great investigative work

of tireless agents who went out there and repeatedly used these skills.