Posted on 10/26/2018 4:29:38 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Multiple outlets are reporting that federal sources and bomb technicians are exploring the possibility that explosive devices sent to prominent Democrats were fakes.
While various media entities scoffed at the notion that such an elaborate mail bombing campaign could have been a hoax, other experts are indeed exploring the possibility.
New York Magazine called the skepticism “counter-intuitive” conspiracies and “mad ravings.”
If so, those ‘mad ravings’ have since extended to an Emmy winning news correspondent and such revered mainstream outlets as the New York Times.
Somehow, some way, CNN was able to, in the midst of a massive federal investigation, tweet out a picture of the bomb they received in their New York headquarters.
The image raised a ton of questions – why were they able to share this when the incident was still being investigated? Why were there no USPS markings on the envelope if it had been delivered? Were the return addresses and faux ISIS sticker a means to throw law enforcement off the trail or were they clues?
More importantly, it raised questions for bomb experts.
Fed Source Say Bombs Looked Fake
Adam Housley, a senior news correspondent with Fox News and Emmy award-winning regional reporter, cites a federal source who saw the device or devices and labeled them “complete hoaxes.”
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Pipe clock
What material(s) constitute the payload?
Total releasable energy?
Primer/igniter?
Timer set and running?
Functional tests?
Tests? Are you crazy? He didn’t want to blow himself up!
Federal prosecutors, federal judges, and federal juries do not have that grant of a sense of humor.
They don’t like hoax bombs, or hoax terrorism.
He will be in prison for the rest of his life.
Anyone making real bombs would make some for practice first and detonate them from a distance. He would also practice setting off the detonators (only) with various methods of opening the bombs. This entire thing (right down to the misspelled names of the addressees) screams "HOAX". I wonder what his real motive is, and I'm not at all confident it's what he is claiming or will claim under interrogation.
Emmy Award Winning Corospondent! Haha - so you get a group of morons together and they give an award to a member moron. Right!
This is just like the teachers union thugs taking turns giving each other teacher of the year awards.
Wray said it was improvised.
It doesn't look like the guy went to the trouble of using steel pipe nipples. This might have been to save money on postage, none of the pictures I saw had more than 6 stamps on the packages, meaning that they probably weighed less than 6 ounces. A 6” x 3/4” pipe nipple with the end caps weighs over twice that much even without powder and a detonating device. So they probably were made with plastic pipe nipples and caps, electrical tape, salvaged wire, and dollar store timers or watches. My guess is that each of the hoax devices cost less than $5 to produce including the postage.
>>I keep hearing the TV guys saying they contained black powder.<<
Isn’t pepper marketed in powder form?
I am sure they know everything about the device. The truth may never be known after all it does make for fantastic news.
Yes, they had to be plastic for weight reasons. But the postage was inadequate. Any package of any weight requires at least seven forever stamps or $3.75 That’s enough for up to 8 ounces.
I heard on radio news that the bombs were real. On what do they base it? What kind of explosive was used?
Lots of people will want the perp dead. There is a good chance IMO, that he did not come up with this idea himself. There is obviously speculation he didn’t do it at all, but no evidence for or against any conclusions right now.
The news is saying they contained real “energetic material.” WTF is that?
THAT is their way of not admitting what it was in the fake bombs while leaving the impression the fake bombs were dangerous.
Not real bombs. Wray said they contain a clock, battery, etc and “energetic material,” which is essentially potential explosives and material that gives off heat and energy through a reaction to heat, shock, or friction
Not any more a bomb than some gunpowder in a tube.
I heard the news say “these could have detonated. They are not fake.” Geez.
When you buy gunpowder you have to handle it carefully. But it is not a bomb. Connecting it to a clock and some wires does not make it a bomb.
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