Posted on 10/25/2018 2:05:53 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
New York City Police Commissioner James O’Neill said Thursday that law enforcement officials are treating the suspicious packages containing possible explosives sent to high-profile Democrats this week as “live devices," not “hoax devices.”
“This is something that should be taken seriously,” O’Neill told reporters at the press conference in New York. “We are treating them as live devices."
“As far as a hoax device, we’re not treating it that way,” O’Neill added.
His remarks came after some conservatives, including radio host Rush Limbaugh, suggested that the bombs could have been part of a hoax or false-flag operation.
Officials said Thursday that they are treating the suspected bombs as “live devices” and “suspected” explosives. At the same time, they offered little details of the ongoing investigation, refusing to answer even whether they had concluded privately one way or another that the devices were actually meant to explode.
The FBI, along with state and local officials across the country, is spearheading the investigation into, so far, 10 suspicious packages in total.
The packages, all similar in appearance, were addressed to former President Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, billionaire philanthropist George Soros, CNN, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), former Attorney General Eric Holder, actor Robert DeNiro and former Vice President Joe Biden.
All were discovered between Monday and Thursday of this week. In almost all of the cases, the packages were intercepted by authorities before reaching the targets. Officials in New York cautioned Thursday that the investigation is in the early stages and ongoing, and warned that further packages could be found.
“We’re doing our best to make sure if there are any out there, we identify them quickly,” O’Neill said.
Authorities have sent all 10 packages to the FBI’s laboratory in Quantico, Va., for further testing.
“We are working quickly to process and analyze relevant information,” said William Sweeney, the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s New York field office. “We will continue to do so for as long as it takes.”
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) again described the attempted attacks as an act of terrorism.
“It’s absolutely terrorism because it’s an effort to use violence to make a political impact," de Blasio said, echoing language he used the day before.
For bombs, it isn't the FBI....it is the BATFE (the "E" stands for "Explosives"), a federal department far more corrupt and incompetent than the Fibbies.
The Vegas massacre went away without any conclusions.
#TiredOfBeingDickedAround
“The crude bombs posted to the liberal elite lacked a ‘triggering mechanism’ suggesting they were never meant to explode, experts who have seen photos of the devices claim...Officials told the AP that the devices were not rigged like a booby-trapped package bomb that would explode upon opening. They had timers and batteries but never went off.”
Yeah, good point.
When I mentioned the ATF the first time I wrote essentially the same post last night, but forgot to include it this time.
Simple safety.
Assume nothing.
You don't want to be the guy who says, "Hey look at the cute fake bomb!" before it blows up in your face.
Add a little salt.... a little garlic powder....a pinch of onion powder.....
The makings of a good steak rub....
Are you sure? Have you asked Pete and Lisa?
That’s why they kept taking pictures of them without disarming them.
Good olde Commie Morgan at Th. Shill peddle the latest DNC soin .
Morgan is a great Dem pr agent at the Shill .
We just mail them a few fake bombs and..
...they'll destroy each other.
’ Also a deep state operative would have easily known how to act and avoid detection.”
Good point.
Not all deep state operatives are intelligent enough to pull this off, but many, many are.
That’s why they just handed hem over to CNN...
Standing around taking pictures of an actual timer activated bomb would be idiotic, suggesting that the photographer knew the device was not about to detonate.
Forensic analysis should be well underway, and should leak out as quickly as the photographs did - unless the analysis shows something that goes against the desired press messaging.
Yep.
De Blasio there was no violence at all. Not one injury. Not one explosion. Fake. Fake. Fake.
ROTFL. All the “experts” must have retired.
-—Mmm. Actually it’s a good survival strategy to treat a suspected bomb as a live device until you can conclusively prove otherwise. Assumptions otherwise can lead to a bad day.-—
No, I get that. The point was the question that was asked wasn’t answered.
“Are these Hoaxes or live devices?” should be answered definitively, or “We don’t know yet.”
Saying “We’re treating them as live” doesn’t answer the question, even if that’s a smart thing to do. Everyone already knows this is a serious matter, even if it is a hoax.
And they are deliverer obfuscating instead of telling the simple truth. Were these bombs? Could they have detonated?
The fact they will NOT answer that question without obfuscation and deflection suggest the answer is “No, they are not bombs”
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