# No one is bothered about how the feds got the Nancy Guthrie video

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**Created:** [February 11, 2026, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-one-is-bothered-about-how-the-feds-got-the-nancy-guthrie-video/1027580 "2026-02-11T16:02:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-one-is-bothered-about-how-the-feds-got-the-nancy-guthrie-video/1027580/41 "2026-02-12T00:29:48Z")

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That’s what I was thinking; that the technical staff at the FBI is familiar with how long Google video is stored for. (Although in the other thread, someone linked to an article saying that had the intruder not disconnected the camera, the footage that night would have been overwritten by later footage but because he disconnected it, there was nothing new to overwrite it with.)

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**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-one-is-bothered-about-how-the-feds-got-the-nancy-guthrie-video/1027580/42 "2026-02-12T00:37:43Z")

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> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> (Although in the other thread, someone linked to an article saying that had the intruder not disconnected the camera, the footage that night would have been overwritten by later footage but because he disconnected it, there was nothing new to overwrite it with.)

That makes sense on the surface, but doesn’t square with it taking them a week to recover the data. I think something is wrong with that theory.

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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-one-is-bothered-about-how-the-feds-got-the-nancy-guthrie-video/1027580/43 "2026-02-12T00:39:01Z")

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I have no idea although _perhaps_ the video was available to the FBI earlier but today was just when it was first released to the public?

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**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-one-is-bothered-about-how-the-feds-got-the-nancy-guthrie-video/1027580/44 "2026-02-12T00:41:51Z")

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According to the CNN article I linked above, the FBI released it within hours of obtaining it. It would be a weird thing for them to lie about (but this FBI does weird things).

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**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-one-is-bothered-about-how-the-feds-got-the-nancy-guthrie-video/1027580/45 "2026-02-12T03:34:03Z")

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> [@Gatopescado](#):
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> I would have thought so when we had professionals running the Joint. These days, probably just Dumb Lucked into it.

Yeah, the head of the FBI isnt the best choice, by far. But he has LOTS of smart people working there.

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