Still, the unexplained gap complicates efforts to reconstruct the final timeline. Notably, the inspector general’s report does not mention the missing minute. Attorney General Pam Bondi previously suggested the security system automatically reset each night, which could explain the gap.
But a government source familiar with the investigation told CBS News that unedited copies of the footage held by the FBI, the Bureau of Prisons, and the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General do not contain the missing time. Why the publicly reviewed version appears to show that gap remains unclear.
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