Tax Day, Oklahama City, the Atlanta Olympics and the Return of the Ricin Letters
Posted: April 17, 2013 Filed under: Breaking News | Tags: bombers, breaking news, Lone Wolf Killers, ricin letters 87 Comments
The Lone Wolf has long been a literary and movie character type. I always think of the old spaghetti westerns–like High Plains Drifter–and Clinton Eastwood. The Lone Wolf is a popular Manga character in Japan too. He’s a samurai that has a lot in common with Eastwood’s scruffy cowboy in poncho persona. The Lone Wolf in the criminal justice system has come to represent more of a pathetic, extremely disturbed man that kills people in an attempt to make some kind of statement. You can think Eric Rudolph–the Clinic and Olympics bomber–when you think of this profile. The last big Lone Wolf killer who did serious damage was the Sikh Mosque shooter.
Wade Michael Page, the alleged killer, according to multiple news sources was a 40 year old Army veteran with a hate symbol tattoo who received a demotion and a less than honorable discharge from the military in 1998 for “patterns of misconduct” according to CNN after six years of service, finishing up at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Disgruntled military veteran killers like Nidal Hassan (who was in the Army), Holocaust Museum shooter James von Brunn, Olympic and clinic bomber Eric Robert Rudolph as well as executed Oklahoma City Bomber Timothy McVeigh and D.C. Sniper John Allen Muhammad (the latter two had accomplices), have led many to mechanistically conclude that military service is part of a profile of loner extremists.
The real story is far more complex, as it is more likely that a first responder or victim to a mass shooting will be a military veteran than the shooter. Irrespective of their military status, these kind of killers are often depressed, socially and psychologically itinerant adult males whose significant and defining life setbacks in career or relationships create a festering anger that explodes into violence against a symbolic target. These targeted locations and innocent people are the sincere focus of aggression in the contorted thinking of someone whose anger and belief system leads them to settle a score and reaffirm their self worth by achieving notoriety through violence. A violent act transforms them from losers to warriors for a cause that is bigger than they are, and they are hitting back, not only on behalf of themselves, but for others who faced similar unfairness from an uncaring society.
The three main categories of extremist aggressors are listed below, and usually one is the primary element with an offender, with at least one other playing a secondary supporting role:
. The Ideologically Motivated (Religious, Political or Hybrid)
. The Psychologically Dangerous (Sociopath or Cognitively Impaired)
. Personal Benefit or Revenge
Two significant stories are developing this afternoon. The first is that the bomb types used by the Boston Bomber are thought to be of the type most used by a lone wolf killer.
The devices used in the Boston Marathon attack Monday are typical of the “lone wolf:” the solo terrorist who builds a bomb on his own by following a widely available formula.
In this case, the formula seems very similar to one that al Qaeda has recommended to its supporters around the world as both crudely effective and difficult to trace. But it is also a recipe that has been adopted by extreme right-wing individuals in the United States.
The threat of the “lone wolf” alarms the intelligence community.
“This is what you worry about the most,” a source with knowledge of the investigation told CNN’s Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger. “No trail, no intelligence.”
Officials have told CNN that among the materials used in the attack on the marathon were some sort of timing device, a basic mixture of explosives and some sort of metal container containing nails and other projectiles. The FBI said late Tuesday that what appeared to be fragments of ball bearings, or BBs, and nails had been recovered and had possibly been contained in a pressure cooker.
One federal law enforcement source told CNN’s Deborah Feyerick the devices contained “low-velocity improvised explosive mixture — perhaps flash-powder or sugar chlorate mixture likely packed with nails or shrapnel.”
An explosives expert told CNN the yellowness of the flame probably came from carbon or some organic fuel such as sugar that contains it. The expert, who is frequently consulted by the FBI and other government agencies, said the white smoke made it “unlikely that a military-grade high explosive, such as those used in shells and bombs, which is usually grey or black, was used.”
U.S. Rep. Mike McCaul, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said “most likely gun powder” was used in the devices.
The breaking news this morning is that President Obama has received a Ricin-laced letter. Two other Washington Congressional members also received letters. The Senate Building is being evacuated because of a number of suspicious packages.
Authorities said Wednesday they had intercepted a letter to the White House that tested positive for ricin poison.
The Secret Service acknowledged the letter addressed to President Obama contained a suspicious substance, and the FBI later said tests showed it was ricin, the same deadly poison sent in a letter addressed to Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.). The Wicker letter was made public on Tuesday.
The Secret Service said the letter was sent to Obama on April 16 and was discovered at an remote White House mail screening facility.”This facility routinely identifies letters or parcels that require secondary screening or scientific testing before delivery,” the Secret Service said in a statement. “The Secret Service White House mail screening facility is a remote facility, not located near the White House complex, that all White House mail goes through.”
The agency said it is working closely with the U.S. Capitol Police and the FBI in the investigation.
White House press secretary Jay Carney said Obama had been briefed twice on the investigation. “He was briefed last night and again this morning,” Carney said.
They may have a man in mind for these letters.
(UPDATE 12:00 p.m. ET)
Capitol Hill Police are questioning a man with a backpack in the area of the Hart Senate Office Building. He raised suspicions with the contents of his backpack and the way he responded to police questions, two Capitol Hill police officers told CNN. The man’s backpack contained sealed envelopes, one of the officers said. The backpack is being X-rayed, one of the officers said.(POSTED 11:43 a.m. ET)
U.S. Capitol Police are evacuating the first floor of the Hart Senate Office Building due to a suspicious package. People on other floors of the building are being told to go into their offices. Separately, there is a suspicious envelope at the office of Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, in the Russell Senate Office Building. Security has cleared the hall but is not officially evacuating.
It drives me nuts that so many whacked political right wingers immediately jump on the islamic conspiracy bandwagon for events like these. It’s so bad that some poor Saudi who was a victim of the Boston Bomber was tackled while he was injured. Right Wing paranoia blogs began to publish the poor guys name as a possible suspect when he was being questioned by the FBI as a witness. All you have to do is read the ratfucker blogs and the crazy go nutters like Geller to see how some of these lone wolves get their paranoia juiced.
A twenty-year-old man who had been watching the Boston Marathon had his body torn into by the force of a bomb. He wasn’t alone; a hundred and seventy-six people were injured and three were killed. But he was the only one who, while in the hospital being treated for his wounds, had his apartment searched in “a startling show of force,” as his fellow-tenants described it to the Boston Herald, with a “phalanx” of officers and agents and two K9 units. He was the one whose belongings were carried out in paper bags as his neighbors watched; whose roommate, also a student, was questioned for five hours (“I was scared”) before coming out to say that he didn’t think his friend was someone who’d plant a bomb—that he was a nice guy who liked sports. “Let me go to school, dude,” the roommate said later in the day, covering his face with his hands and almost crying, as a Fox News producer followed him and asked him, again and again, if he was sure he hadn’t been living with a killer.
Why the search, the interrogation, the dogs, the bomb squad, and the injured man’s name tweeted out, attached to the word “suspect”? After the bombs went off, people were running in every direction—so was the young man. Many, like him, were hurt badly; many of them were saved by the unflinching kindness of strangers, who carried them or stopped the bleeding with their own hands and improvised tourniquets. “Exhausted runners who kept running to the nearest hospital to give blood,” President Obama said. “They helped one another, consoled one another,” Carmen Ortiz, the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, said. In the midst of that, according to a CBS News report, a bystander saw the young man running, badly hurt, rushed to him, and then “tackled” him, bringing him down. People thought he looked suspicious.
What made them suspect him? He was running—so was everyone. The police reportedly thought he smelled like explosives; his wounds might have suggested why. He said something about thinking there would be a second bomb—as there was, and often is, to target responders. If that was the reason he gave for running, it was a sensible one. He asked if anyone was dead—a question people were screaming. And he was from Saudi Arabia, which is around where the logic stops. Was it just the way he looked, or did he, in the chaos, maybe call for God with a name that someone found strange?
We simply cannot deal with the idea that we have a culture that seems to breed these very angry and disturbed men. Most of them appear to be heavily anti-government and focused on stockpiling weapons of all kinds. They bear many grudges. Of course, Norway just had its own Lone Wolf that shot up a bunch of teenagers at a summer camp but the US gets more than its share and they have easy access to horrible weapons here. The most scary things about the Lone Wolf Killer is that there is usually no way to unmask him until he has done a hell of a lot of damage.
There are some good sources to read about this phenomenon.
Right after last month’s shootings in Aurora, Colo., I started reading George Michael’s Lone Wolf Terror and the Rise of Leaderless Resistance (Vanderbilt University Press) as well as a few recent papers on solo-organized political violence. It proved easy to put off writing a column on this material. For one thing, the official publication date for Lone Wolf Terror isn’t until mid-September. Plus, a single bloodbath is grim enough to think about, let alone a trend toward bloodbaths.
But the most pertinent reason for not writing about the book following the Aurora massacre was simply that James Holmes (whom we are obliged by the formalities to call “the alleged gunman,” though nobody has disputed the point) didn’t really qualify as an example of lone-wolfdom, at least as defined in the literature. In “A Review of Lone Wolf Terrorism: The Need for a Different Approach,” published earlier this year in the journal Social Cosmos, Matthijs Nijboer marks out the phenomenon’s characteristics like so:
“Lone wolf terrorism is defined as: ‘[…] terrorist attacks carried out by persons who (a) operate individually, (b) do not belong to an organized terrorist group or network, and (c) whose modi operandi are conceived and directed by the individual without any direct outside command or hierarchy’ … Common elements included in several accepted definitions [of terrorism] include the following: (1) calculated violence, (2) that instills fear, (3) motivated by goals that are generally political, religious or ideological. These guidelines help distinguish [lone-wolf] terrorist attacks from other forms of violence.”
The actions of Ted Kaczynski and Anders Breivik fall under the heading of lone-wolf terrorism. They had what they regarded as reasons, and even presented them in manifestoes. So far, James Holmes has given no hint of why he shot people and booby-trapped his apartment with explosives. If he ever does put his motives into words, it’ll probably be something akin to Brenda Ann Spencer’s reason for firing on an elementary school in 1979: “I don’t like Mondays. This livens up the day.” Something about Holmes dyeing his hair so that he looks like a villain from “Batman” gives off the same quality of insanity tinged with contempt.
George Michael, the author of Lone Wolf Terror and the Rise of Leaderless Resistance, is an associate professor of nuclear counterproliferation and deterrence at the Air War College. He does not completely dismiss psychopathology as a factor in lone-wolf violence (bad neurochemistry most likely played as big a role in both Kaczynski’s and Breivik’s actions as ideology did, after all). But for the most part Michael treats lone-wolf violence as a new development in the realm of strategy and tactics – something that is emerging as a response to changes in the ideological and technological landscapes.
As it happens, the book appears during the 20th anniversary of the prophetic if ghastly document from which Michael borrows part of his title: “Leaderless Resistance,” an essay by Louis Beam, whom Michaels identifies in passing as “a firebrand orator and longstanding activist.” Fair enough, although “author of Essays of a Klansman” also seems pertinent.
I think it’s important to know more about these guys because incidents involving them are on the rise. Also, because we have a right wing–some times religious based–hysteria level that has been turned up to 11 by internet propagandists and conspiracy theorists. Plus, there is easy access to some dangerous information on the internet about bombs and all kinds of things.
Both American and British officials have now stated that lone-wolf terrorism, whether inspired by Al Qaeda or by the far right, poses a growing risk to the West. This was made painfully clear by Anders Behring Breivik, who, armed with a gun and some fertilizer, managed to terrorize Norway and murder 77 people in late July. Before him, there was Major Nidal Hasan, a U.S. soldier who, in November 2009, murdered 13 of his fellow soldiers in Fort Hood, Texas. Moreover, a number of lone neo-Nazis an
d Al Qaeda-inspired jihadists have been jailed recently for attempted murders or planning to bomb targets in the UK. A new report that I co-authored for the Henry Jackson Society shows that 66 percent of Islamism-related offenses in the UK between 1999 and 2010 involved no direct links to terrorist organizations; from 2006 to 2010, critically, there was a steady decline in cell activity resulting in successful attacks or convictions, and a rise in the number of people committing offenses alone or aspiring to engage in terrorist activity.
Here’s a Time article from about 2 months ago.
Is this a new threat the nation and the world should fret over? Jeffrey D. Simon is a terror expert with 25 years’ experience in the field, including a stint at the Rand Corp. He addresses the issue in his new book, Lone Wolf Terrorism: Understanding the Growing Threat. Battleland conducted this email chat with him Monday.
What’s the most important take-away from Lone Wolf Terrorism: Understanding the Growing Threat?
That lone wolves are a force to be reckoned with, since they can be as dangerous as the larger terrorist groups and cells that exist throughout the world.
When we think about terrorism, the first thing that usually comes to mind is al Qaeda or similar types of groups. Yet the individual terrorist has proven to be among the most innovative, creative, and dangerous in terrorism history.
For example, it was lone wolves who were responsible for the first major midair plane bombing, vehicle bombing, hijackings, product contamination, and anthrax attacks in the United States.
Lone wolves think “outside the box” because that is where they always are; namely, outside the box. They are loners who have to operate by themselves. That means there is no group decision-making process or group pressure that might stifle creativity.
This allows lone wolves to act upon any scenario they might think up. Furthermore, lone wolves have little or no constraints on their level of violence. They are not concerned with alienating supporters (as would some terrorist groups), nor are they concerned with a potential government crackdown following an attack.
And since they work alone, they are much harder to identify than groups or even cells since there are no group members to arrest and learn about potential plots.
It appears that our security forces are aware of the threat but until Lone Wolves act, there isn’t much they can do about it. It also appears that while Lone Wolves are “out of the box” types that think “out of the box, there are many folks in this country that prefer to think of massive conspiracies by stereotypes meant to make their small minds feel better about the big, scary world we live in. Their time–and our resources–would be better spent learning about Lone Wolves and trying not add fuel to their inner fires.
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#BREAKING: According to @WuWCVB, an arrest in #BostonMarathon bombing is imminent or has already taken place.
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RT @AP: BREAKING: Law enforcement official: Arrest imminent in Boston Marathon bombing, suspect to be brought to court.
CNN reporting that an arrest has been made in the Boston bombing case ( source: FBI ). ID was based on two videos from the bomb sites, particularly one taken at a Lord & Taylor store. No more information being given.
I just got an email from my local news channel. It said that they got an image of the suspect from a Lord and Taylor security camera as well as local news footage around the second bomb site. I’m going to turn on the TV and see if there is more.
Okay … a new one:
CBS News @CBSNews 6m
JUST IN: Man sought as possible suspect is WHITE MALE, wearing white baseball cap on backwards, gray hoodie and black jacket.
The Daily Beast @thedailybeast 47s
CBS News now reporting possible suspect is a WHITE MALE-not “dark-skinned” as earlier reported by CNN http://thebea.st/YW3yEZ
Boston_Police Despite reports to the contrary there has not been an arrest in the Marathon attack.
That’s an official tweet from the Boston police tweet account
They need to just pull the plug on CNN. Keep Anderson Cooper and Sanjay Gupta and throw the rest of them in the trash.
Now they are saying there is a bomb threat at the Boston Courthouse
Over radio, Boston Police say that the courthouse incident is a bomb threat.
Boston Federal Courthouse Is Being Evacuated http://read.bi/YWa3aU
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After CNN falsely reported a suspect had been arrested and was being taken to the courthouse, several hundred people gathered outside of the building. They have been asked to disperse. What a mess.
okay … had to post this . CNN is such a moronic outfit these days
Err uh oh. RT @journodave: US Attorney’s Office in Boston says no arrest has been made – @PeteWilliamsNBC
Our media … can’t live with them … can live without them …
I heard Blitzer say that. I couldn’t believe it.
Oh for Pete’s sake!
One of the CNN experts ( Fran Townsend ) says she has more info from her Federal sources and indicated the arrest was domestic-related. But given all the wrong info that has been reported, that may not be correct.
Did you see Cuomo getting the AP info off his smartphone? Mang, I wish we had a REAL news station.
Cuomo is a goofball. I wonder how he got his job. (wink)
If Fran Townsend is an “expert,” I’m a nuclear physicist.
BTW the instructions for building one of those pressure cooker bombs is in The Anarchist’s Cookbook, published way back in the ’60s.
Heh, when I first wrote that, I had “experts” in quotes. Thank goodness, CNN didn’t have Jane Harman on this afternoon.
Good lord what a horrendously stupid question. Blitzer may be “out of the box”.
It least Blitzer didn’t ask if the suspect has “dark skin”. He is obviously today’s Edward R. Murrow. /s
Cuomo and John King keep checking their phones. King was also holding a pressure cooker.
Well he must be from India then! Every one knows that Indians cook their Daal in Pressure cookies and their horrible socialist government gives them free to families there to save energy!!! (snark font on)
Reminds me of that scene from It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057193/quotes?item=qt0412643
J. Algernon Hawthorne: Jolly nasty accident there. Jolly lucky nobody was hurt.
Mrs. Marcus: Where did you get that funny accent? Are you from Harvard or something?
J. Algernon Hawthorne: Harvard? Rather not. I’m English.
Mrs. Marcus: Sounds so foreign.
J. Algernon Hawthorne: Really?
lol
Here is the video, it is the first few minutes…
DY I know what you mean abut the right wingnut jobs and there conspiracy theory’s . most of the consider themselves patriots . but they things they saying are anything but. they always talk about defending the constitution against enemy’s foreign on domestic as some how they are its lone guardians with out realizing that if hey carry out they actions they themselves would be the domestic enemy’ because usably they end up implying in some form or way they thy would talk up arms against the government.
AP: US marshals take suspect to courthouse.
Pete Williams on MSNBC: According to his Federal sources, no ID or arrest of suspect has been made.
Gawd. I don’t know what to believe.
I wouldn’t believe CNN these days which is a sad statement. They have lost all their good reporters and are more of a source of entertainment news more than anything else. They are like the People Magazine of cable news.
well CNN had to walk back their story … it appears MSBC wins a prize!!!
I quit watching them when they though Erin Burnett was smart enough to anchor a news program. I refer to her as Wall Street Barbie.
Chances are excellent they have a suspect in mind but haven’t picked them up and questioned them yet. They probably won’t arrest anyone before taking that step.
Yes, it is difficult to believe that investigators have already ID’d the suspect based on the videos and have the individual in custody.
I think Dak is correct about CNN. AP, too. Sheesh, they are like “Entertainment Tonight”. MSNBC seems to be covering the story better.
Oh geez! I’m headed to MSNBC. You know, I was wondering because I turned on the TV and it was on one of the networks and there was a soap opera on which I thought was odd that they didn’t break into programming with such big news. Hmmmm.
Michael Isikoff was on MSNBC throwing cold water all over the story as fast as he could 🙂
Fox “News” is saying a suspect was taken into custody.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/17/fbi-boston-police-say-range-suspects-motives-remains-wide-open/
MSNBC still insisting that nobody has been taken into custody and no arrest has been made.
NEWS FLASH: Yes. Umm, No I don’t know. Maybe. Could be.
Jesus, what are they paying these fools?
BREAKING NEWS: Don’t believe anything you hear on CNN!!!
Jeff Zucker Attributes CNN Criticism To Jealousy: ‘Just Because Jon Stewart Makes Fun Of It Doesn’t Mean He’s Right’ | Mediaite
Daily show is way better and far more accurate if you ask me.
CNN is backpedaling now. No arrest, nobody in custody.
The Daily Edge @TheDailyEdge 1m
CNN: That’s the last time we use our guy at The New York Post as a source
Heh!
The National Enquirer has a better track record.
NEWS FLASH: Tea Party group of morons!!!
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/scarborough-christians-will-be-persecuted-and-imprisoned-if-scotus-legalizes-gay-marriage
There is no depths to which these scum will not go to scam more money from the morons who actually support them.
You mean nobody in the media has penned the name Estrata from Meximo? I’ll just leave it there, and see who looking in the news. I mean I am gone for 5 hours and the Pres. office has been sent a letter containing chemicals, and they caught the boston bomber and he is in custody, wait a minute, no they didn’t, and no the world hasn’t ended….though there is speculation from Alex Jones and his boys, and Joe Plumber and toilet boys, that yes, it over.
All the claims coming in from our news isn’t exactly telling the story of what has and is happening here…………what a joke. Everybody ought to be fired from the DisnoNEWS.
CNN is making an attempt at Alex Jones accuracy record.
Sure, Balanced Accuracy.
Lester Holt on MSNBC just referred to unintended consequences of “that bad reporting”.
and via the brit press:
Photo shows Boston Marathon bombing suspect planting bag by mail box (Mail Online UK news) http://bit.ly/11dJTzh pic.twitter.com/S02H7ETlC3
this dude looks white … and every one carries backpacks these days … sheesh
This morning there was a post at the Gateway pundit where they had a photo of the crowd and circled all the young men with backpacks. Do they have any idea how many college students there are in Boston?!
BB, are they giving it a name over in Boston? When the attacks hit WTC in New York, we preferred to call it the full September 11th, not 9/11. In fact that 9/11 is very insulting to the victims family’s and survivors. It was like the media and Bush and the war mongers hijacked the quick catch phrase. Most of the local coverage used the September 11th name, which is more solemn and thoughtful.
FBI whacks John King’s PeePee
well deserved whack!
Bailiff!!
Seriously, I’d like to see somebody, John King if he’s the one responsible, get fired for all of this. Throngs of people showed up at the courthouse in Boston and law enforcement had to break things up and clear the area. Lucky someone didn’t get hurt.
actually, now there is a bomb threat there … buildingPolitix @bi_politics 2m
Boston Federal Courthouse Is Being Evacuated http://read.bi/YWa3aU
Janet Wu in Boston was the first to report the fake arrest.
In a valiant attempt to retain his title of World’s Dumbest Congresscritter…
HuffPo: Louie Gohmert: Radical Islamists Being Trained To ‘Act Like Hispanic’
Hell there is a big chunk of our population who couldn’t tell an Iraqi from a Mexican walking down the aisle of Winco.
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you too funny fannie
Wow, then I am hearing that yesterday in California that a PGE substation was hit with a high powered rifle, and they are calling it sabotage/vandalism……………..But you can’t read nothing about it today……………….I guess anybody knowing what to shot at with a 22 can bring down this country.
Maybe it’s because of the vote on gun registration today?
Let me back up and agree with you Dak……in the environment we are living in, we are now a breeding ground for the lone wolf. I posted the two articles yesterday about the Herlong Depot near Reno, Nv. and the Oregon cases………………Not only has tons of money been missing from our two wars, but weapons, and devices are long gone………….somebody is stock piling are moving the goods, and I tend to believe it could be wanna be types like Timothy McVeigh…..
Thank you … I was beginning to think all the breaking news was going to mean no one would actually read my post!!!
((((((hugz)))))
It’s a very good post, Dak.
Thanks … I did a lot of digging to find the material.
Yur post is great. I’ve been thinking the same all week!
I just wanted to talk about mostly likely profile of the perpetrators which seems to be lost on in all the anti-Arab and anti-Islam hysteria on the right wing blogs.
I will say this, after September 11th, my husband was so paranoid over anyone who even remotely looked middle eastern with carrying a bag. He sat for four hours one night outside Grand Central because he was paralyzed with fear that someone was going to set off a bomb in the building. He was so upset with himself that he even felt that way, because it bothered him that he was making a discriminatory judgment against someone because of there looks and color of skin.
His fear eventually got better, but it did not go away completely. This went on for all of the six months after the attacks, the whole time he was going back into work in the city.
When the plane crashed out on long island, again there was that awful fear that another attack had occurred. I agree that the shitheads at the blogs perpetuate the dark skin stereo types…but I do see how my husband reacted, especially that first few times going back to work…which for him was Thursday Sept. 13th. That incident with the four hour emotional breakdown was on the Friday evening of the 14th. It all is so vivid in my memory.
I read the whole thing and found it very interesting.
I hope this doesn’t turn out to be a left wing radical though. Did you notice all the people who got ricin letters were Republicans? (I’m including Obama in that category.)
thank you .. thought you might want to check out those books
CNN had a good former FBI terrorism investigator on several times since the bombings ( can’t remember his name ). He said people trained to investigate foreign terrorism will see signs that the Boston bombings are from a foreign source; people trained to investigate home-grown terrorism will see signs that the bombings are domestic in origin. Wisely, he has refused to speculate on foreign vs. domestic terrorism in this case, even though CNN has repeatedly asked him to. He says he does not have enough information to give that opinion.
The former FBI investigator has also called for patience in the case. CNN probably won’t have him on again. He makes too much sense.
CNN reported nonexistent arrest and that the suspect was “dark-skinned” http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2013/04/17/boston-bombing-suspect-cnn-double-breakdown-so-much-for-abundance-of-caution/ …
Bomb threat at courthouse in Boston………….wtf?
CNN and the AP falsely reported “the suspect” was being taken there. Hundreds of people gathered outside the building, along with the press.
NBC News Beats The Competition, Is First To Report Correctly That No Arrest Made In Boston Bombing Case | Mediaite
TPM: Texas DA Slayings: Wife Of ‘Terroristic Threat’ Ex-Judge Charged With Capital Murder
This is a surprise.
I heard that on NPR on the way home! That’s wild. She confessed. They said that the wife might have gotten Mrs. McLelland to open the door that night.
Andy Borowitz: BREAKING: No Information Found on Cable News
Great post and thoughtful comments.
all very intriguing—
thankfully this is all over now, but the threat of copycat/escallated spree violence is getting worse. And this one does nothing if not warn the concerned public that “gun control” is not the end all be all savior. Enhanced Background Checks would not have prevented Newtown, Aurora, the Sikh Temple shooting, or Patriots Day.
The saddest thing is we will need to learn to accept there are certain realities that cannot be legislated away, banned away, or completely erriadicated. The freedom for a lunatic to do horrible things in a free society cannot be infringed.
Hi, Thanks and welcome to sky dancing! There’s a few things we can do like control things and substance that are generally used by these kinds of people. But, overall I’d rather live with the risk of the threat than lose our freedoms