The Pipe Bombs
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https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2024/01/21/did-the-fbi-plant-pipe-bombs-in-dc-on-jan-6-n606442
An originally unidentified man wearing a backpack approaches two vehicles parked adjacent to the DNC headquarters shortly after 1 pm on January 6. One vehicle belongs to the Capitol Hill Police (CHP) and the other contains Secret Service agents. The man (who we later learned was a CHP officer who was either off-duty or undercover) informs both the CHP and the Secret Service that there is a bomb planted a very short distance from them under the bench outside of the DNC. Their response seems to be complete apathy. It takes a few minutes for them to get out of their cars. They allow a group of children to cross at the intersection and walk within feet of the bomb. Another officer shows up and comes within feet of the bomb to take a picture of it. Only later is a robot summoned to remove and/or defuse the bomb. And all of this was happening when VP-elect Kamala Harris was scheduled to arrive.
If you were the CHP or the Secret Service and a law enforcement official informed you that there was a bomb only feet away from you, wouldn’t you immediately cordon off the entire area and call for more backup? Would you allow schoolchildren to stroll past the bomb? Shouldn’t there have been some sense of urgency?
Then there is the question of the bombs themselves. The FBI claims that they were “viable” and not fake, posing a “danger to the public.” But the only detonating mechanism they discovered was a 60-minute kitchen timer. There was no remote detonation mechanism installed allowing for a cellphone or other device to set them off at a distance. To be fair, perhaps that means that the design was flawed. But the bombs were planted the night before. We know the time because they have a suspect on video who is believed to have planted them. And what did they hope to accomplish by blowing up a park bench near the street? Wouldn’t they at least have attached them to the building somehow?
What was the motive of the bomber? If it was some crazed Trump supporter who was angry over a stolen election, we might understand wanting to blow up the DNC. Buy why bomb the RNC as well? You might be tempted to think that a second bomber aligned with the Democrats was involved, but would two people create virtually identical bombs with the same flaws making them nonfunctional, and place them in two locations within minutes of each other? That’s simply nonsensical.
None of this adds up. The newly released video is damning, at least in my opinion. If that was a real attempt at a bombing, the response from the CHP and the Secret Service should have been immediate and overwhelming. If law enforcement has a better explanation, they aren’t telling the public what it is. Something stinks to high heaven here and the House GOP has one more huge item on their plate to investigate now.
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Running off to confirm the melt point of ANSI 300 stainless steel.
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