Hey, any excuse to rewatch the video of a dumb terrorist getting herself justifiably killed. But you’re far from the first person to suggest Babbitt might be the bomber, and the figure in the videos does actually code female to me.
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I’m sure an organization that was devoted to law enforcement like the FBI would also be in communication with their fellow law enforcement officers in the Secret Service, as they may have had some information on their phones about this incident. No professional would overlook cell phone data from that day.
Unless it was wiped clean.
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Smart phones can be turned off, implanted trackers not so much.
Are you absolutely, positively, 100% sure of that?
(Asking for Pegasus.)
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I live on the Hill too, (though at Lincoln park so pretty far from the bombs) and my favorite tidbit was the FBI going to the dog groomer near my house asking if anyone recognized the dog or owner. It’s weird to me, that as far as I know, we never heard who the dog walker was. Both of those blocks are lightly residential, so it clearly wasn’t a neighbor from close by, since everyone would have known immediately oh yeah that’s so and so and his dog. Someone on a longer walk also should have been easily identified, and the Hill is such a small town kind of place, we all would have known about it.
On Jan 6th I called DC police to report a backpack left on my block. (This was before we all started hearing that there were pipe bombs at the RNC and DNC) They came and dumped it out on the sidewalk so I could see that it contained a MAGA hat and scarf, a Gatorade and most importantly, in my mind, a flip phone. They took it away, but I never heard back from the cops asking for more info. I also reported to FBI, never heard anything more.
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As I saw that the reward for information is $490,000 (and presumably has been all along), and they seem to be having difficulty getting anywhere, I thought, you need to double that reward. Or triple it. There are definitely people out there who know who that was. Their greed is not being called to loudly enough yet. Given the gravity of the crime, what’s wrong with $1.5 mil? Even 2 if 1.5 doesn’t work. Seems fine to me.
Just as a footnote, the guy who recently got caught bringing guns into the Trump event has strong connections with Raiklin, and thus Flynn. All in the family, I guess.
ETA: Raiklin is the “Secretary of Retribution” wretch (see link).
As to whether it was Raiklin, I remain agnostic, but think immediate size/height comparisons from photos would be called for (and would probably rule him out). There’s a video podcast that the two of them (R and the gun guy) are on. – Oh, here it is. Embedded in this (first link I found). I’d say Raiklin’s too big, just offhand.
All the neighbors in the article rewatched the footage a million times, and they also feel sure of that.
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The folks on megaphones exhorting and directing the rioters seemed to be acting on a plan.
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Weird how all of the Republicans are talking about it in a way that makes it clear they think a Republican did it.
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Has anyone looked for MTGreen’s cell phone location during the time the bombs were left?
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What I don’t get is the kitchen timers; setting the bombs to explode would have required a second visit, no?
I take the 60-minute kitchen timers as evidence the bomber did not really intend for anything too explode, as they would have had to be set when the bombs were planted.
That is very true, and it is just one more example of things that really need to be addressed. The very fact that they got away with this has allowed a completely dishonest (and involved in J6) person as Speaker, and 2nd in line to the President. He is in deep and has no problem lying.
It is my fervent hope that we win the House next month, and not just for the votes.
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This is just an aside, but I have friends* who would make crude pipe bombs and then go out in the desert blow shit up (if you grow up in Western Colorado, blowing shit up in the desert is a major source of entertainment). Now that I am a fully fledged adult, I can’t believe that they did that stuff. One errant spark (like from screwing the cap onto the end of the pipe) and it’s curtains. Then there are the potential legal implications. This was pre-9/11, but, even then, law enforcement took a pretty dim view of bomb making.
*Those friends are now adults. I think they often wonder why they were so stupid and thank the heavens that they are still alive.
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Caveat would be a co-conspirator would have the option in the morning to set the timer at an opportune time. Purposes could’ve also been diversion and signal…“One if by land, two if by sea,” was quoted in relation to the weapons cache across the river.
Both bombs were left in the open, basically unhidden. You don’t do that if you think you may need to trigger them the following afternoon. They were intended to be found.
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The most parsimonious explanation that fits the facts of both the construction/placement/non-operation of the devices and the failure of the investigation is that the devices were built and placed by a member or members of a US Government agency.
Unlikely. Government/military employees with militia ties don’t tend to stay employed.
What makes you think self-styled militias (violent criminal organizations) had to be involved?