"Intentional Negligence"? FBI Had J6 Bomber's Cell Phone Putting Him at the Scene of the Crime... Five Years Ago

If the FBI had cell phone records of 10,000 people's cell phones sending signals from near the RNC and DNC on the night the bombs were planted, I could understand not finding the suspect. With a suspect list of 10,000 people, I guess I could understand the claim, "We just didn't have the manpower to run down every phone."

Guess how many cell phones they actually had records of in the vicinity of the RNC and DNC at the time when the bombs were being planted?

Fewer than 200.

No, i do not believe the FBI "just didn't have the resources" to look into 186 suspects -- not when they showed they could mobilize every agent to track down every grandma within ten blocks of the Capitol on January 6th.

So was this a case of "intentional negligence"?

Miranda Divine:

Surely there's more to it than that. Director Kash Patel hinted Friday at a reason the FBI under Biden administration Director Christopher Wray may not have wanted to solve the case: "intentional negligence."
'Corrupted' cell data
This, after all, was the FBI that managed to round up and charge 1,500 supporters of President Trump who set foot anywhere vaguely near the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, tracking them down through cellphone pings and video footage.
Yet with all its technical ability, Wray's FBI somehow missed the phone used by the suspect in the vicinity of the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee headquarters on the evening of Jan. 5 when the pipe bombs were planted. Surveillance footage shows the suspect, wearing a gray hoodie and COVID-style white mask, seemingly talking on the phone while walking around that night less than half a mile from the Capitol.
According to an FBI document presented to the DC District Court during his arraignment Friday, Cole's cellphone "engaged in approximately seven data session transactions with [his cellphone provider's] towers between 7:39 p.m. and 8:24 p.m. ... in the area of the RNC and DNC on January 5, 2021," locating him in the right place at the right time.
That information was obtained by the FBI within weeks of the discovery of the pipe bombs the next day. Investigators found 186 cellphone numbers "of interest" and 130 "devices of interest," according to the congressional report released this January by the chairmen of the House Oversight and Judiciary subcommittees, Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.).

By early February 2021, according to the subcommittees, FBI agents had been assigned to interview people associated with 36 of the 186 phone numbers; 98 still "required additional investigative steps." A further 51 phone numbers were identified as "not needing further action" because, curiously enough, the phones "belong[ed] to law enforcement officers or persons on the exclusion list."
The FBI never told Congress what came of those leads.

They only bothered looking into 36 of the 186 phone numbers?

Let me guess - the 36 they looked into were Trump supporting Republicans, right?

Then there is the curious tale of the "corrupted" cellphone data that turned out not to be corrupted at all.
The story came from Steve D'Antuono, head of the FBI's Washington field office until his retirement in December 2022, who was in charge of the crucial first year of the pipe bomb case as well as the Capitol riot investigation, which has been described as the biggest in FBI history.
He was assigned to Washington one month before the 2020 election from his previous role in Detroit, when he ran the disastrous Gretchen Whitmer "fednapping" case that resulted in multiple mistrials and acquittals, amid claims of FBI entrapment of patsies.
D'Antuono, who has since found a job at KPMG, also led the controversial FBI raid on Trump's home, Mar-a-Lago, in August 2022. He claims he opposed the raid but was overruled by then-Deputy FBI Director Paul Abbate.
In any case, in June 2023, D'Antuono testified before Congress, claiming that the FBI had received "corrupted data" in the pipe bomb case from one of the three major cellphone carriers and that may have been the reason it couldn't find the culprit.

"We did a complete geofence. [But] there's some data that was corrupted by one of the providers, not purposely by them," he said.
"It just [was an] unusual circumstance that we have corrupt data from one of the providers ... I can't remember right now which one. But for that day, which is awful because we don't have that information to search. So could it have been that provider? Yeah, with our luck, you know, with this investigation it probably was, right."
Yet all three of the cellphone carriers contacted by Loudermilk's subcommittee confirmed that they "did not provide corrupted data to the FBI and that the FBI never notified them of any issues with accessing the cellular data."

It gets worse. The FBI didn't release any pictures of the suspect that could identify him -- and one investigator claims that the FBI deliberately blurred out the one part of his face that was clearly visible in the surveillance footage, his eyes.

Why would they do that, if not to conceal his identity?

I don't know if I'm ready to believe that. It's a claim made by someone looking at the video and determining that he sees "pixelation" added to the video to obscure Brian Cole, Jr.'s eyes. I remember other claims about "chromatic aberrations" not turning out to be true.

But I would like this investigated further.

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But by the end of February 2021, according to Loudermilk and Massie's report, the bureau actively began diverting resources away from the pipe bomb investigation. At the same time, Wray and Abbate were ramping up resources to track down and aggressively prosecute trespassing J6 grandmothers.

Miranda Divine concludes that the political operators of the FBI didn't want to taint their Trump Did the J6 Insurrection narrative with any information that might undermine it, and started winding down the investigation when it looked like the main suspect was not a MAGA grandma.

Posted by: Ace at 04:25 PM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:25 PM (Zz0t1)

2 Woot!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:26 PM (Zz0t1)

3 #Winning

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:26 PM (Zz0t1)

4 Off to nood.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:26 PM (Zz0t1)

5 Heh.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:26 PM (Zz0t1)

6 Rack Wray.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2025 04:27 PM (s0JqF)

7 Hrmph.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 09, 2025 04:27 PM (OUMaO)

8 They are totally not lying to us now you guys.

Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 04:27 PM (vFG9F)

9 Quick enough for government work.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:27 PM (eEIbO)

10 It’s all in the Management, seems like.

Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:28 PM (pDt9x)

11 There was no Misfeasance.

There was ONLY Malfeasance.

Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:28 PM (TR2dy)

12 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:25 PM (Zz0t1

Well, a sponge doesn't have the thrusting power of a blade ,and anyway I think it's funnier when you're actually # 200 or something and still claim first .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 04:28 PM (7RYym)

13 200 for a geo-fence data drag?

Yeah the FBI was not putting their top men on it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:28 PM (2GVsD)

14 Can Wray be retired?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 09, 2025 04:29 PM (8CIFn)

15 How many cell phones were at the locations where pallets of bricks were dropped off before riots?

Did they even bother to look.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 04:29 PM (mPytV)

16 I'm guessing every administration and their alphabet agencies do this because they know they can't destroy the data legally and that when investigated, no matter what the outcome,

NOTHING WILL HAPPEN to them.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (Zz0t1)

17 Wray + pear of anguish, some assembly required

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (2GVsD)

18 WHAT A SHOCK

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (zjgNU)

19 Mike Benz, as usual, has some good stuff on this. He has had a particular interest in this case from the very beginning. Always a good read. His take, essentially, is that this is even worse than intentional negligence - it's obstruction.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (bNf8H)

20 >>one investigator claims that the FBI deliberately blurred out the one part of his face that was clearly visible in the surveillance footage, his eyes.

>Why would they do that, if not to conceal his identity?

>>I don't know if I'm ready to believe that.

There's a Mike Benz video that will cure you of that, Ace.

Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (TR2dy)

21 NOTHING WILL HAPPEN
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (Zz0t1)

That's my line!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (zjgNU)

22
Fecklessness. Betrayal. Insurrection.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (nXmou)

23 Of course it was. This kid is fucked up but he would have muddled the J6 reichstag narrative they were building. So into the memory hole he went.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (zZu0s)

24 I don't find this odd at all, do you?

Says Wray and Pelosi and others who promoted the J6 myth.

Jussie Smollette is proud (I always say his name like Chappelle).

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (WONhk)

25 Wray will not be arrested. He will not be subpoenaed. Neither will any of the other treasonous assholes from the Biden administration.

Strongly worded letters will be written and sleaves will be rolled up.

That's about it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:31 PM (Zz0t1)

26 "Cole's cellphone "engaged in approximately seven data session transactions with [his cellphone provider's] towers between 7:39 p.m. and 8:24 p.m. ... in the area of the RNC and DNC on January 5, 2021," locating him in the right place at the right time."

Then they should know who or what was on the other end of the line, right? That might be useful information.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 04:31 PM (npFr7)

27 >>>Why would they do that, if not to conceal his identity?

If we are to believe some of the stuff we are hearing about this guy, he was easily manipulated. So then the question becomes, who put him up to it?

Maybe that's the question they didn't want asked/answered.

Posted by: No Name Today at December 09, 2025 04:31 PM (8mulE)

28 21 NOTHING WILL HAPPEN
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (Zz0t1)

That's my line!
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (zjgNU)

I need a “ line”, a signature comment. Everyone should coin one.

Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:31 PM (pDt9x)

29 So was this a case of "intentional negligence"?
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How is that different from a "coverup" or a "conspiracy" or "corruption?"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 04:31 PM (azrRX)

30 "Then they should know who or what was on the other end of the line, right? That might be useful information.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon"

Gee, we never thought of that.

Posted by: the FBI at December 09, 2025 04:31 PM (vFG9F)

31
That's my line!
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (zjgNU)

So, you're saying I was in before the nothing will happen guy?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:32 PM (Zz0t1)

32 "Wray may not have wanted to solve the case: "intentional negligence." 'Corrupted' cell data"

yeah, the fact they faked the "corrupted cell data" is more evidence they had prior knowledge of the bomber, and sought an excuse ("data no good") to cover it up.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 04:32 PM (vbXSk)

33 I thought it went without saying.

Posted by: Guy who always says "Nothing will happen" and is usually right at December 09, 2025 04:32 PM (vFG9F)

34 Remember when all the phones and computers that could have convicted Hillary mysteriously developed corruption and crashes, which is what often happens when you hit them with a hammer? This is now the deep state's go to move.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 04:33 PM (Riz8t)

35 The entire point of J6 was create a narrative that Trump supporters were out of control insurrectionists and bad people to shutdown any talk of a rigged election. And it worked.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 04:33 PM (viF8m)

36 The just-willowed thread reminded me, as Kamala usually does, of the times I had done zero work before class. Instead, I'd gone out drinking. And the professor called on me. I do think I was better at faking it than she was.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2025 04:33 PM (s0JqF)

37 For future reference, if you are going to be patsie of the Feds' fedsurrection fake bomb plot, leave your cell phone at home and pay cash for your prop bombs.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 09, 2025 04:33 PM (dK+Kv)

38 If the bomber was a white MAGA guy, they not only would’ve pulled out all the stops to catch him, they would’ve reopened Alcatraz for his life sentence.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 09, 2025 04:33 PM (u73oe)

39 He wasn't the right color so they were not interested.

Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2025 04:33 PM (YwEeS)

40 32 "Wray may not have wanted to solve the case: "intentional negligence." 'Corrupted' cell data"

yeah, the fact they faked the "corrupted cell data" is more evidence they had prior knowledge of the bomber, and sought an excuse ("data no good") to cover it up.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 04:32 PM (vbXSk)

Eh, apparently the perp is rather autistic, according to Granma, and black, but mostly black.

Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:34 PM (pDt9x)

41 If the bomber was a white MAGA guy, they not only would’ve pulled out all the stops to catch him, they would’ve reopened Alcatraz for his life sentence.

They'd have torn down Alcatraz to the foundations and rebuilt it atop Mauna Loa.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 04:35 PM (Riz8t)

42 Oh, good *In my opinion, cobs need to do a better job keeping stormfront at bay; too much of it lately

Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:35 PM (g47mK)

43 the Jan6th coup by the DemonRats was THE MOST IMPORTANT thing. All else tossed to the side. Welcome to the Federal Bureau of Idiots (totally tainted by politics)

Posted by: gov'theretohelp at December 09, 2025 04:35 PM (VOPsA)

44 what is more believable:

1. That they would protect a guilty person because he is not MAGA, and it just too difficult to spin him as a recent convert who was working under MAGA influence

or

2. They were pulling the strings and were concerned that their plotting would eventually get exposed, and so it was easier to protect the guy from being ID'd in order to protect the conspiracy.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 04:35 PM (mPytV)

45 not a criticism, just an opinion !

Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:35 PM (g47mK)

46 OF COURSE they didn't investigate it. They WANTED it to be something that hurt Trump and his voter base. They were going to arrest everyone near the place regardless, and since they already knew the bomber was a black male of Democrat housing, they COULDN'T release his identity.

This was their Reichstag moment.

And they got away with it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:35 PM (Zz0t1)

47 Miranda Divine concludes that the political operators of the FBI didn't want to taint their Trump Did the J6 Insurrection narrative with any information that might undermine it, and started winding down the investigation when it looked like the main suspect was not a MAGA grandma.
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Fine, as far as it goes. But it implies that somebody knew. Obviously not a "MAGA Grandma," but not at *all* obviously not someone affiliated. A dude is a dude until context is added.

So if they suppressed this - and it looks like they did, any questions about doctoring the footage notwithstanding - then they had a reason. The only reason for suppressing it is either because they're not sure who it is (which would call for publicity - a "have you seen this man" kind of thing) or because they *are* pretty sure who it is. The latter is more likely, so the only real question is *how* they knew.

Either he was one of their boys, or they found out who he was. So they either had a patsy they set up, or they actually did their jobs and investigated but then buried it. I don't see another reasonable conclusion, but am open to hearing other arguments.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 04:36 PM (azrRX)

48 The FBI Boston office protected Whitey Bulgar

Of course the FBI will try and protect their agents.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:36 PM (2GVsD)

49 Work out a quick deal with the autistic guy and then dump every bit of info that was ignored and the names of every supervisor and higher up who ignored the info. Stick it to the deep state and make them point fingers at those politicians in the Biden administration who told them to look the other way. You're not going to get criminal convictions against bureaucrats but you can stick to the Dems and deep state

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 04:36 PM (D+mpw)

50 ... and one investigator claims that the FBI deliberately blurred out the one part of his face that was clearly visible in the surveillance footage, his eyes.

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Patsy.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 04:36 PM (nXmou)

51 You know, I don't think Aero Pinochet was strictly "legal", nor was the Argentine generals' "dirty war" against the Commies, but both were effective.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 04:36 PM (npFr7)

52 Chromatic aberrations suck in real world sight. The worse your eye sight gets the higher the refraction index and thickness gets of your lenses. At some point you end up basically trying to see through prisms. I think my eyesight has now stabilized into a nominal level of very shitty, so at least it's not going to get worse. But large variations of light, will separate into offset colors. So not only do you get weird colors but things displace and multiply. Mostly towards your periphery, not generally straight center of view. But it does suck.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 04:36 PM (3uBP9)

53 The entire point of J6 was create a narrative that Trump supporters were out of control insurrectionists and bad people to shutdown any talk of a rigged election. And it worked.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 04:33 PM (viF8m)
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It did work, at least in part of society. That was the part predisposed to believe the worst of Republicans anyway.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 04:37 PM (r5gBF)

54 42 Oh, good *In my opinion, cobs need to do a better job keeping stormfront at bay; too much of it lately
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:35 PM (g47mK)

We are on their radar it seems. Still, better than BB, or Insty. Those places are Overrun. Add in the gazillion dollars a week schemes - what a mess!!

Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:37 PM (pDt9x)

55 Either he was one of their boys, or they found out who he was. So they either had a patsy they set up, or they actually did their jobs and investigated but then buried it. I don't see another reasonable conclusion, but am open to hearing other arguments.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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Mannix solves the case of the J6 bomber who is of course not to be confused with a cop.

Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 04:37 PM (WDjG6)

56 >>"Intentional Negligence"

As part of a treasonous conspiracy.
Let's stop with these limited hangouts. Like the NYT admitting that "maybe open borders was a mistake."

No, it was not a mistake, and this is not negligence. It was a planned takeover of our current system and the people. A coup. A treasonous dirty coup by filthy commies.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 04:38 PM (mPytV)

57 >>The entire point of J6 was create a narrative that Trump supporters were out of control insurrectionists and bad people to shutdown any talk of a rigged election. And it worked.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 04:33 PM (viF8m)

And the 'Bomb' portion of the Plot was conveniently in place, as a last resort, to stop Congress from actually acting to review the election results.

Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:38 PM (TR2dy)

58 I can't believe no one has done anything about the poor woman in Colorado that's been rotting away, physically tortured and mentally tormented for over a year because she blew the whistle on OBVIOUS FRAUD committed there.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:38 PM (Zz0t1)

59
Chris Wray is Gomer & Guber's cousin.

"Hey Chris, Guber say's Hey!"

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 09, 2025 04:38 PM (IifOV)

60 We seem to all be repeating the same thing as if it is a Novel observation.

Did someone throw in the Joos?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 04:39 PM (zZu0s)

61 Remember when Barr and the media said that cell phone data wasn't good enough to be used in investigating election fraud?

Posted by: wodun at December 09, 2025 04:39 PM (eG1Ca)

62 >>> It did work, at least in part of society. That was the part predisposed to believe the worst of Republicans anyway.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 04:37 PM (r5gBF)

That part of society also includes Republican politicians in DC.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (3uBP9)

63 Can we start calling Cole "Marinus van der Tubby"?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (npFr7)

64 If the bomber was a white MAGA guy, they not only would’ve pulled out all the stops to catch him, they would’ve reopened Alcatraz for his life sentence.

If the bomber had been caught criticizing Israel, both parties would have called for the full force of the USMIC to descend on D.C. for door to door searches.

Posted by: Good Grief at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (FAUIX)

65 The recent history of the Federal Bureau of Intrigue is a mish-mash of incompetence, corruption and high-level neurosis (e.g., James Comey). Trump is going to have to spray that place with a whole lot of Roundup to clear the weeds out.

Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (2L+MU)

66
So what ties this guy to the bombing is a pair of rare shoes and a cell phone? Can't both of these be used by someone else? As conspiracy theories go......

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (IifOV)

67 The FBI should be ashamed of theyselves.

But they ain't.

Says all you need to know.

Posted by: Deep State Gonna Deep State at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (FGMmt)

68 All federal agencies have been corrupted beyond repair. Axe them all and start over.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (snZF9)

69 Politicos generally are in desperate need of some good old tar and feathering. Will never happen, of course, but it would clean up a lot of wrongs.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (r5gBF)

70 The F.B.I. used to be good shit.

The fact that the DOJ under various presidents during that time period wouldn’t take action on their investigations wasn’t their fault, and even “conservative” Democrats like Henry “Scoop” Jackson and Stu Symington would make sure Senate investigations turned on the whistleblowers instead of the perps (just like today).

But clearly at some fairly defined point in time the F.B.I. lost their mojo and started doing dirty. By the time Janet “Butch” Reno was large and in charge, certainly, but long before then, too. Sometime after the Church committee hearings? Arguably they played a role in ousting Nixon? So it’s been 50 years easy. Very sad.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (wJccJ)

71 Glenn Beck did a recent rant about no one ever facing consequences and how he is fed up.

Me too.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (mPytV)

72 "Intentional Negligence"? FBI Had J6 Bomber's Cell Phone Putting Him at the Scene of the Crime... Five Years Ago

He was one of their wind-up toys.

Posted by: Operator Error at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (PlXYd)

73 >>And the 'Bomb' portion of the Plot was conveniently in place, as a last resort, to stop Congress from actually acting to review the election results.

I can't wait to hear the motive. What would drive an autistic guy whose family said he was extremely introverted to make bombs and plant them at the RNC and DNC on the very day an insurrection happened?

Probably have to dig for it because the media sure as hell isn't interested in this story.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (viF8m)

74 So what ties this guy to the bombing is a pair of rare shoes and a cell phone? Can't both of these be used by someone else? As conspiracy theories go......
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (IifOV)

And sales of the bomb components on his credit cards, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 04:42 PM (npFr7)

75 Jussie Smollette is proud (I always say his name like Chappelle).
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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Good to see you here. Glad you made it. Everything OK?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:42 PM (c35xG)

76 Glenn Beck did a recent rant about no one ever facing consequences and how he is fed up.

Me too.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (mPytV)

Oh, but he's a kook that no one should ever listen to ever........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:42 PM (Zz0t1)

77 Chromatic aberrations suck in real world sight. The worse your eye sight gets the higher the refraction index and thickness gets of your lenses. At some point you end up basically trying to see through prisms. I think my eyesight has now stabilized into a nominal level of very shitty, so at least it's not going to get worse. But large variations of light, will separate into offset colors. So not only do you get weird colors but things displace and multiply. Mostly towards your periphery, not generally straight center of view. But it does suck.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 04:36 PM (3uBP9)

just get astigmatism. Every day is like Christmas at night.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 04:42 PM (8avO+)

78 70 The F.B.I. used to be good shit.
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Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (wJccJ)

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Hol' up....
Imma gonna let you finish, but first I want to say that they were always an incompetent grifting bunch of assholes.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 04:43 PM (mPytV)

79 >>So what ties this guy to the bombing is a pair of rare shoes and a cell phone? Can't both of these be used by someone else?

They have his receipts for components purchased going back a little over a year, I believe.

Not that he can't be a carve-out. But, they have more than you implied.

Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:43 PM (TR2dy)

80 Miranda Divine:

Surely there's more to it than that. Director Kash Patel hinted Friday at a reason the FBI under Biden administration Director Christopher Wray may not have wanted to solve the case: "intentional negligence."

This is the same Miranda Divine who played the NY Post patsy, publishing an article where 'insiders' at the FBI tried to frag Patel and Bongino as people leading a 'rudderless' FBI and were only in it for 'resume padding'. That article came out just a few days before the FBI actually caught Cole for the J5 pipe bomb plantings.

I'm a fan of Divine, but that was not her best moment. This is probably her play at penance for that dumb move.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:43 PM (0CU3H)

81 The important part of the J6 bomber story is being completely avoided.

Who were his handlers? _ That's the real story.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:43 PM (c35xG)

82 FBI "just didn't have the resources" to look into 186 suspects -- not when they showed they could mobilize every agent to track down every grandma within ten blocks of the Capitol on January 6th.

Oddly it turned out to be that one guy they saw on video plant a bomb, mill around a bit, then make a call.... at that exact time in that spot.

Posted by: Operator Error at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (PlXYd)

83 Christopher Wray - Wr + G

Posted by: Cray Cray at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (7JIc2)

84 I just looked up KPMG. Their practices are very suspect and they have paid millions in fines and lawsuit awards. Arthur Andersen was pristine by comparison.

Posted by: huerfano at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (98kQX)

85 I wonder why they didn't arrest him 5 years ago.

Posted by: Because he's black at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (9ZILp)

86 Chris Wray is Gomer & Guber's cousin.

Posted by: Frank Barone
_________

He's ugly, but he ain't stupid.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (XvL8K)

87 The F.B.I. used to be good shit.

The fact that the DOJ under various presidents during that time period wouldn’t take action on their investigations wasn’t their fault, and even “conservative” Democrats like Henry “Scoop” Jackson and Stu Symington would make sure Senate investigations turned on the whistleblowers instead of the perps (just like today).

But clearly at some fairly defined point in time the F.B.I. lost their mojo and started doing dirty. By the time Janet “Butch” Reno was large and in charge, certainly, but long before then, too. Sometime after the Church committee hearings? Arguably they played a role in ousting Nixon? So it’s been 50 years easy. Very sad.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (wJccJ)

Most organizations lose their focus within a generation of founding. The Armed Forces work around that to an extent by getting shot at.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (8avO+)

88
just get astigmatism. Every day is like Christmas at night.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 04:42 PM (8avO+)

Get Fuchs Dystrophy. Every light is like a torture test for a large portion of the day. But, you do get rainbows all the time. I'm just waiting for the pot of gold to fall from out of nowhere and crush my skull.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (Zz0t1)

89 I would like to know why he did this on Jan 5 in particular. Why he did both RNC and DNC.

I'd like to know who protected Ray Epps.

Who set up the 'gallows' and who ordered him to be left alone while he did it.

Who opened the magnetic locked doors to the Capitol.

Who was the handcuffed protestor who was then on camera later getting uncuffed and high fived by (someone, Capitol Police?)

Sigh.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (Dv3i1)

90 Who was he talking to on the phone? His ponybuddy?

Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (vFG9F)

91 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: And you damn well know it. at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (XQo4F)

92 76 Glenn Beck did a recent rant about no one ever facing consequences and how he is fed up.

Me too.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (mPytV)

Oh, but he's a kook that no one should ever listen to ever........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:42 PM (Zz0t1)

I'm not a Glenn Beck fan. At all. I still remember his temporary NeverTrump insanity period.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:45 PM (0CU3H)

93 And a white MAGA guy too, guess they fked up

Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 04:45 PM (Ia/+0)

94 Anyone at the fib that had any involvement in this case needs to be fired today.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2025 04:46 PM (0N4FZ)

95 81 The important part of the J6 bomber story is being completely avoided.

Who were his handlers? _ That's the real story.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:43 PM (c35xG)

For me, the question is why did J6 even take place if there were bombs planted on Capitol grounds on J5?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:46 PM (0CU3H)

96 71 Glenn Beck did a recent rant about no one ever facing consequences and how he is fed up.
Posted by: bob

Hey! Democrats take responsibility for their actions and move on!

Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 04:46 PM (Y8DZL)

97 Okay just did my first video on Tensor. Almost cost 19 credits and took a long time to generate.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:47 PM (2GVsD)

98 >>And the 'Bomb' portion of the Plot was conveniently in place, as a last resort, to stop Congress from actually acting to review the election results.

I can't wait to hear the motive. What would drive an autistic guy whose family said he was extremely introverted to make bombs and plant them at the RNC and DNC on the very day an insurrection happened?

Probably have to dig for it because the media sure as hell isn't interested in this story.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (viF8m)

His motive was to put a bomb in DC. It gets pretty simple when you do that.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 04:47 PM (8avO+)

99
I'm not a Glenn Beck fan. At all. I still remember his temporary NeverTrump insanity period.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:45 PM (0CU3H)

He did yeoman's work on the whole Ukraine / Burisma shit back in the day, which everyone ignored. He was spot on and now look where that shithole is.

Hell, 1/2 of the 'conservative' media sphere was NeverTrump........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:47 PM (Zz0t1)

100 Anyone at the fib that had any involvement in this case needs to be fired today.

Trebuchet?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (2GVsD)

101 Did we have as many weirdos doing weird shit back in the day when we used to beat up weirdos for being weird? Or is it now popular to be weird: brony, furry, anime trans queer all of the above. The weirder the better. Touch a titty and try to act normal at least.

Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (uQzkA)

102 >>> I'm not a Glenn Beck fan. At all. I still remember his temporary NeverTrump insanity period.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:45 PM (0CU3H)

Hey, remember a million years ago when Glenn Beck, ... super detective, basically batman, if batman was cool and had a chalkboard, ... solved the pipe bomb mystery for us?

Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (3uBP9)

103 >>I can't wait to hear the motive. What would drive an autistic guy whose family said he was extremely introverted to make bombs and plant them at the RNC and DNC on the very day an insurrection happened?

His handler was VERY specific about the Day and Locations he was to plant those inert bombs.

Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (TR2dy)

104 54 42 Oh, good *In my opinion, cobs need to do a better job keeping stormfront at bay; too much of it lately
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:35 PM (g47mK)

We are on their radar it seems. Still, better than BB, or Insty. Those places are Overrun. Add in the gazillion dollars a week schemes - what a mess!!
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:37 PM (pDt9x)

related story in the NY Post today - the great majority of the posts backing Fuentes and his pals like Tucker on X and other online outlets are sourced from bot farms in India and Nigeria.

so much for that "organic support".

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (uWKK8)

105 "Anyone at the fib that had any involvement in this case needs to be fired today.

Trebuchet?
Posted by: Anna Puma"

Kiln.

Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (vFG9F)

106 Guess how many cell phones they actually had records of in the vicinity of the RNC and DNC at the time when the bombs were being planted?

Fewer than 200.

No, i do not believe the FBI "just didn't have the resources" to look into 186 suspects -- not when they showed they could mobilize every agent to track down every grandma within ten blocks of the Capitol on January 6th.
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I am sure they could have, but I have a different question.

What if he had left his phone at home? This framing of the problem - accurate as it may be - makes it sound as if cell phone data is they key to whole thing. I don't know if it is, but if it is then it sounds like leaving your phone at home is a "do whatever you want" pass. I can't imagine that's true, but maybe it's also like this:
https://youtu.be/zgsQNNYurWo

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 04:49 PM (azrRX)

107 >>Hey, remember a million years ago when Glenn Beck, ... super detective, basically batman, if batman was cool and had a chalkboard, ... solved the pipe bomb mystery for us?

He got a tip when he was handing out Teddy Bears at the Border.

Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:49 PM (TR2dy)

108 Who was he talking to on the phone? His ponybuddy?
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (vFG9F)

I was gonna say his FBI handler, but that's probably the same person.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 04:49 PM (dGCAG)

109 58 I can't believe no one has done anything about the poor woman in Colorado that's been rotting away, physically tortured and mentally tormented for over a year because she blew the whistle on OBVIOUS FRAUD committed there.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

She tried to retain election data that should have been retained per federal law, but that powerful people on Colorado don't want exposed. Political prisoner Tina Peters. A big lie is that Nazi is 'right-wing'. Nope.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 04:50 PM (Dv3i1)

110 Ugh.

Fire everyone even remotely connected to the bomber's investigation.

Any FBI investigator who believes his job is to protect Democrat political chicanery instead of catching criminals needs to be fired and any pension revoked.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 04:50 PM (iJfKG)

111
Kiln.

Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (vFG9F)

They can be brutal.......

Posted by: Zombie Fawn Liebowitz at December 09, 2025 04:50 PM (Zz0t1)

112 “ …. create a narrative that Trump supporters were out of control insurrectionists and bad people to shutdown any talk of a rigged election”
——-

It “worked”, but …. Donald Trump is President. Oops

My view is they are stupid. They are selfish, which is worse.

Even the appearance or perception, rightly or wrongly, that elections are not legitimate is absolute poison for the system and anyone who cares about their country and its inhabitants would do anything to avoid this. One would want to dispel such ideas. With sunlight and transparency.

“Oh, you want to look under the hood of our election system? By all means!”

Did they do that? Fuck no. Not even a little bit. They just said “Fuck You” and decided to arrest anyone that complained. Not a prescription for confidence going forward.

Ask them, what WOULD be the acceptable response by America if it were proven a presidential election were stolen by Democrats?

What would they expect people to do? What is the remedy for that? “Vote Harder” is not a remedy.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 04:50 PM (wJccJ)

113 "Cole's cellphone "engaged in approximately seven data session transactions with [his cellphone provider's] towers ..."
Then they should know who or what was on the other end of the line, right? That might be useful information."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I'm thinking he was not talking, those "transactions" are just the phone seeking a tower? And somehow it also transmits a location, or maybe they are just going by which tower it connected to.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 04:51 PM (vbXSk)

114 related story in the NY Post today - the great majority of the posts backing Fuentes and his pals like Tucker on X and other online outlets are sourced from bot farms in India and Nigeria.

so much for that "organic support".
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (uWKK

Yeah, I love how the Left is trying to make an antisemitic equivalence between Ds and Rs, now that Fuentes et al are on the scene. The institutional antisemitism on the Left - domestically and internationally - puts anything we purportedly have on our side of the ledger in the dust.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:52 PM (0CU3H)

115 What if he had left his phone at home? This framing of the problem - accurate as it may be - makes it sound as if cell phone data is they key to whole thing. I don't know if it is, but if it is then it sounds like leaving your phone at home is a "do whatever you want" pass. I can't imagine that's true, but maybe it's also like this:
https://youtu.be/zgsQNNYurWo
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 04:49 PM (azrRX)

Well, everyone knows that burner phones are untraceable, so just use those.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:52 PM (Zz0t1)

116 Hey, remember a million years ago when Glenn Beck, ... super detective, basically batman, if batman was cool and had a chalkboard, ... solved the pipe bomb mystery for us?
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (3uBP9)

If by "solved" you mean forced the FBI to come up with a patsy, to keep the heat off of them, then yes. Yes he did.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 04:52 PM (dGCAG)

117 Don't forget that a decent press corp could have solved this during the 4 years the FBI was sitting this case out.

Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 04:52 PM (TN0g+)

118 The dog ate our cellphone data.

Posted by: Federal Investigations Bureau (FIB) at December 09, 2025 04:52 PM (krQz2)

119 J6 was an attack on The System. The System must be protected at all costs. The protection of The System is always and ever a Bipartisan task.

Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:52 PM (pDt9x)

120 So.... guy lied to Congress... and.... crickets... no charges filed yet? No perp Walk?

Bet he is still getting a retirement check.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 09, 2025 04:52 PM (mP0Kj)

121 FWIW, "Intentional Negligence" is, in fact, intentional obstruction.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 04:53 PM (npFr7)

122 This cellphone was sold at Wal-Mart store #8999 on this date and time.

Roll the security footage.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:53 PM (2GVsD)

123 28 I need a “ line”, a signature comment. Everyone should coin one. - tubal

I agree.

Posted by: Paco - If the problem's a no-brainer, I'm your man at December 09, 2025 04:53 PM (2L+MU)

124 95 81 The important part of the J6 bomber story is being completely avoided.

Who were his handlers? _ That's the real story.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:43 PM (c35xG)

For me, the question is why did J6 even take place if there were bombs planted on Capitol grounds on J5?
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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It's a Dirty Dime Novel, the bombs are part of the J6 Insurrection story that they (Pelosi & Co) intended to pull off against Trump.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:53 PM (c35xG)

125 Don't know if this has been mentioned but by blurring the eyes, it also blurred the fact that he was a person of color. So, most assumed he was a white Trump guy . This was also intentional.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 09, 2025 04:53 PM (t/2Uw)

126 related story in the NY Post today - the great majority of the posts backing Fuentes and his pals like Tucker on X and other online outlets are sourced from bot farms in India and Nigeria.

so much for that "organic support".
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (uWKK

Yeah, those bot farms also watched Tucker every evening on Fox News, too.

Posted by: Jewish Gaslighting Farm at December 09, 2025 04:54 PM (K+su+)

127 I saw Chromatic Abberations open for Blue Cheer at the Rainbow Theatre in 1970.

Posted by: Old Man Adams at December 09, 2025 04:54 PM (oftw2)

128 Face it, they only investigated phone numbers whose owners were registered Republican and white. End of story. After that came up dry it was back to hunting down J6 Grannies.

Posted by: hate_the_deepstate at December 09, 2025 04:54 PM (2Nfh9)

129 FWIW, "Intentional Negligence" is, in fact, intentional obstruction.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 04:53 PM (npFr7)

Obstruction is only a thing on TV Fed Cop shows, silly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (Zz0t1)

130 >>J6 was an attack on The System. The System must be protected at all costs. The protection of The System is always and ever a Bipartisan task.

I think you mean, 'in defense of The System'.

Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (TR2dy)

131 Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:47 PM (2GVsD)

Kinda cool. Very anime.

I really want a good term for the cutesy little girl anime stuff that is not the sexual connotation.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (zZu0s)

132 I saw Chromatic Abberations open for Blue Cheer at the Rainbow Theatre in 1970.
Posted by: Old Man Adams at December 09, 2025 04:54 PM (oftw2)

Blue Cheer.

Well played, sir. Well played.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (Zz0t1)

133 I'm thinking he was not talking, those "transactions" are just the phone seeking a tower? And somehow it also transmits a location, or maybe they are just going by which tower it connected to.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 04:51 PM (vbXSk)

Towers "ping" cellphones all the time. I think these were either phone calls and texts, or him using an app, like maybe Gurgle Maps.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (npFr7)

134 This is the same Miranda Divine who played the NY Post patsy, publishing an article where 'insiders' at the FBI tried to frag Patel and Bongino as people leading a 'rudderless' FBI and were only in it for 'resume padding'. That article came out just a few days before the FBI actually caught Cole for the J5 pipe bomb plantings.

I'm a fan of Divine, but that was not her best moment. This is probably her play at penance for that dumb move.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:43 PM (0CU3H)

Or... maybe they released the info on their patsy, after they realized they were getting heat from whoever sources her articles.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (dGCAG)

135 Did Lindsey Graham advocate shooting the J6’ers? Did the Capitol police get medals for their service?

Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:56 PM (pDt9x)

136 It's a Dirty Dime Novel, the bombs are part of the J6 Insurrection story that they (Pelosi & Co) intended to pull off against Trump.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:53 PM (c35xG)

Exactly. A security service worth its salt would have announced that bombs were discovered in the vicinity and the whole grounds declared off-limits to the public. Either J6 should never have happened, or it was all an Op.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:56 PM (0CU3H)

137 130 >>J6 was an attack on The System. The System must be protected at all costs. The protection of The System is always and ever a Bipartisan task.

I think you mean, 'in defense of The System'.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (TR2dy)

I could mean that.

Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:56 PM (pDt9x)

138 Did Lindsey Graham advocate shooting the J6’ers? Did the Capitol police get medals for their service?
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:56 PM (pDt9x)

Yes and yes. Because most of DC was all in on the plot to begin with because they all hated Trump.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:57 PM (Zz0t1)

139 I don't know if I'm ready to believe that. It's a claim made by someone looking at the video and determining that he sees "pixelation" added to the video to obscure Brian Cole, Jr.'s eyes. I remember other claims about "chromatic aberrations" not turning out to be true.
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I have not made this claim, however, I remember from the Rittenhouse fiasco that security cameras these days usually have stunning quality. And that getting this kind of graininess often takes interference.

The graininess in these pics seems to me to be under that capability of current security cameras. I don't put it past them to grainify another video, as I seem to recall it wasn't only with Rittenhouse that they went out of their way to reduce the resolution on a security camera.

Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 04:57 PM (krQz2)

140 J6 was an attack on The System. The System must be protected at all costs. The protection of The System is always and ever a Bipartisan task.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:52 PM (pDt9x)

Or...

J6 was an attack BY the system!

Because yes, the system must be protected at all costs, and that Trump guy was making noise about contesting the election.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 04:57 PM (dGCAG)

141 What if he had left his phone at home? This framing of the problem - accurate as it may be - makes it sound as if cell phone data is they key to whole thing. I don't know if it is, but if it is then it sounds like leaving your phone at home is a "do whatever you want" pass. I can't imagine that's true, but maybe it's also like this:
https://youtu.be/zgsQNNYurWo
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 04:49 PM (azrRX)

To peeps today not having your phone on you and live is worse than being struck by lightning.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 04:58 PM (8avO+)

142 Kinda cool. Very anime.

I really want a good term for the cutesy little girl anime stuff that is not the sexual connotation.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (zZu0s)

kawaii?

Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 04:58 PM (3uBP9)

143 135 Did Lindsey Graham advocate shooting the J6’ers?

The terrorists?

Yes, they were threatening our Democracy and deserved to be shot by the brave heroes in Washington D.C.

Posted by: Ted Cruz at December 09, 2025 04:58 PM (K+su+)

144 Something... something... obstruction of justice.

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 09, 2025 04:58 PM (OXcnO)

145 I'm thinking he was not talking, those "transactions" are just the phone seeking a tower? And somehow it also transmits a location, or maybe they are just going by which tower it connected to.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 04:51 PM (vbXSk)
++++
They actively communicate all the time. I am not sure what a "data transaction" is, but they also probably happen more or less constantly. Get an email and you receive a push notification? Get a notification

Whether location is involved would depend on the applications involved, but it also isn't needed. The tower *must* know who is connected to it. The nearby towers probably also do, if the phone connects to multiple towers (which it will during handoff, if not earlier). Triangulation works and no device location is needed because the tower locations are known.

Even a connection to a single tower gets you a likely radius. Pick the closest tower to the target, and see who was connected. Even without greater precision than that, it's a highly-effective filter for narrowing down the list. The tower knows what is connected at any given time, and can infer how far away the device is (signal strength).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (azrRX)

146 I really want a good term for the cutesy little girl anime stuff that is not the sexual connotation.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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You must eliminate intent to do that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (c35xG)

147 103 >>I can't wait to hear the motive. What would drive an autistic guy whose family said he was extremely introverted to make bombs and plant them at the RNC and DNC on the very day an insurrection happened?

His handler was VERY specific about the Day and Locations he was to plant those inert bombs.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (TR2dy)

If you watch the video, it sure looks like he is being directed by someone. The wandering. The looking around. He even gets up on tippy toes at one point looking for someone, then wanders off for another lap around the area...

Then... plants the 'bombs.

Add in the Hoody and mask... which could easily cover earphones... or buds..

If'n he knew where he wanted to plant the bombs, then why the wandering around? Makes no sense... just gets him into more camera footage.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (mP0Kj)

148 Popular Science by way of Instapundit -

German hairy snails are disappearing from London’s River Thames

*whistles innocently*
-Frenchman with suspiciously full pockets

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (Dv3i1)

149 143 135 Did Lindsey Graham advocate shooting the J6’ers?

The terrorists?

Yes, they were threatening our Democracy and deserved to be shot by the brave heroes in Washington D.C.
Posted by: Ted Cruz at December 09, 2025 04:58 PM (K+su+)

Yeah, that guy. It would have been better if Cruz had kept is trap shut. Like at least 20 other Republican Senators did.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (0CU3H)

150 Kawaii desu?

Hai.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (2GVsD)

151 It's a Dirty Dime Novel, the bombs are part of the J6 Insurrection story that they (Pelosi & Co) intended to pull off against Trump.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:53 PM (c35xG)

Exactly. A security service worth its salt would have announced that bombs were discovered in the vicinity and the whole grounds declared off-limits to the public. Either J6 should never have happened, or it was all an Op.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:56 PM (0CU3H)

Shouldn't they have had a more credible patsy set up than this dude?

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (8avO+)

152 I really want a good term for the cutesy little girl anime stuff that is not the sexual connotation.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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you mean chibi?

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:00 PM (8avO+)

153 146 I really want a good term for the cutesy little girl anime stuff that is not the sexual connotation.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
---------

You must eliminate intent to do that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (c35xG

If you ever feel the need to be appalled, remove safe search for anime, hentai, and manga. What they allow is really disturbing.

Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:00 PM (pDt9x)

154 but first I want to say that they were always an incompetent grifting bunch of assholes.
——

You can say that, but I know better, from my reading of history. They did excellent work at what they were tasked to do.

As so often the case, it was congress who caused the problems to persist. It was Harry Truman who absconded with all the State Department personnel background check and loyalty files. He wouldn’t let congressman look at them. The FBI had files on all sorts of scurvy fuckheads.

It’s like the cops in Seattle or Portland. If your bosses are leftist dickheads, you ain’t gonna bust your ass to do arrest bad guys. It isn’t worth the risk. And eventually you’ll get pushed out, and they’ll hire left wing goons anyhow, to hassle and arrest the law abiding.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 05:01 PM (wJccJ)

155 The Treasury has prominently featured Trump coin designs on its website. The coin would be part of a push to commemorate the 250th anniversary of America's founding. It would be a collector's coin rather than a fully minted coin.
----

Pain, Democrats, Pain.

Trump Silvers would sell like hotcakes.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 05:01 PM (c35xG)

156 148 Popular Science by way of Instapundit -

German hairy snails are disappearing from London’s River Thames

*whistles innocently*
-Frenchman with suspiciously full pockets - Chuck Martel

LOL!

Posted by: Paco - If the problem's a no-brainer, I'm your man at December 09, 2025 05:01 PM (2L+MU)

157 >>Towers "ping" cellphones all the time. I think these were either phone calls and texts, or him using an app, like maybe Gurgle Maps.

That was how they supposedly proved Michael Cohen was in Vienna working with Russia on behalf of Trump.

Michael Cohen was never in Vienna.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 05:01 PM (viF8m)

158 Chibi is an off-shoot of super-deformed.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 05:01 PM (2GVsD)

159 Shouldn't they have had a more credible patsy set up than this dude?

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (8avO+)

Yes, he should've been a Russo-Iranian Qatari national with a Chinese passport.

Posted by: MIC Fiction Committee at December 09, 2025 05:02 PM (K+su+)

160 156 148 Popular Science by way of Instapundit -

German hairy snails are disappearing from London’s River Thames

*whistles innocently*
-Frenchman with suspiciously full pockets - Chuck Martel

LOL!
Posted by: Paco - If the problem's a no-brainer, I'm your man at December 09, 2025 05:01 PM (2L+MU)

No business being there anyway. Stay on the other side of the Channel!! Go bother France!!

Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:02 PM (pDt9x)

161 Someone remind me where in the Constitution it says there's supposed to be a national police force?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 09, 2025 05:03 PM (ULPxl)

162 The F.B.I. used to be good shit.
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Day by day, I doubt that it ever was more and more.

Was it when Hoover was tapping the phone of every prominent person in DC?

The FIB is hype.

Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:03 PM (krQz2)

163 161 Someone remind me where in the Constitution it says there's supposed to be a national police force?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 09, 2025 05:03 PM (ULPxl)

The same place where it says that the Administrative State is the Fourth Branch of Government.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 05:04 PM (0CU3H)

164 It seems to me, the FBI obstructed justice and lied to Congress with respect the J5 Pipe Bombing case. I can only assume the perps that committed these felonies were given awards and martinis for doing an eggs and bacon, by the book ~~investigation~~ coverup, and that none of them will ever suffer being indicted.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 05:04 PM (uv8gn)

165

I need a “ line”, a signature comment. Everyone should coin one.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:31 PM (pDt9x)

tubal - I need a line!

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:04 PM (8avO+)

166 The F.B.I. used to be good shit.
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Day by day, I doubt that it ever was more and more.

Was it when Hoover was tapping the phone of every prominent person in DC?

The FIB is hype.

Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:03 PM (krQz2)

Once a domestic terror group, always a domestic terror group. Burn it down, figuratively.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 09, 2025 05:04 PM (dK+Kv)

167 The Treasury has prominently featured Trump coin designs on its website. The coin would be part of a push to commemorate the 250th anniversary of America's founding. It would be a collector's coin rather than a fully minted coin.

I'd like to see a coin featuring Donald Trump in the pose of St. Michael, his foot on the neck of Chuck Schumer, brandishing a spear over his head.

Posted by: Paco - If the problem's a no-brainer, I'm your man at December 09, 2025 05:05 PM (2L+MU)

168 Michael Cohen was never in Vienna.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 05:01 PM (viF8m)

I suppose it would be possible to spoof a cellphone's IMEI number, which is a unique identifier of the device itself. Dummy up another phone to play-act as Cohen's phone, ship it in a Faraday bag to Vienna, and take it out for a walk.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 05:05 PM (npFr7)

169 Trump Silvers or Phil Silvers?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 05:05 PM (nXmou)

170 I saw German Hairy Snails open for Toad the Wet Sprocket at the Avalon in '94.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 05:05 PM (3uBP9)

171 70 The F.B.I. used to be good shit.

Really? Cross-dressing JE Hoover with his blackmail files begs to differ.

Rotten to the core from day one.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 09, 2025 05:05 PM (E66lT)

172 Search for list of top FBI shows. Think there are only 2 or 3? One list has 50.

I wonder how much taxpayer money was spent paying the networks for good PR.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 05:05 PM (Dv3i1)

173 I'm prepared to believe any infamy of the FBI

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 05:06 PM (xcxpd)

174 122 This cellphone was sold at Wal-Mart store #8999 on this date and time.

Roll the security footage.
Posted by: Anna Puma

And they used a credit card.....
And they went home and turned it on...
And they called their friends after....

Criminals usually are not that smart. Even Kohlberger got caught, and he turned his phone off (or Faraday bagged it, not sure.) But he was in area casing the house in the weeks before, and his phone was noticeably off during the murders.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 05:06 PM (mPytV)

175 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (azrRX)

Modern phones are constantly tracking their own location... and it's been shown that I phones are sending the info off periodically... even if you are in Airplane mode... it waits to connect then sends off the data.

And as Phone companies seem quite willing to give that info to the Feds, even without any warrant?

My phone right now knows down to a few feet, exactly where it is, and shows the location of my truck 30 feet away, even though it is not even connected to my truck.

They are not tracking via cell tower... but they don't want to tell you HOW they are actually getting that data.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 09, 2025 05:06 PM (mP0Kj)

176 A further 51 phone numbers were identified as "not needing further action" because, curiously enough, the phones "belong[ed] to law enforcement officers or persons on the exclusion list."

Say, one of those excluded law enforcement phones wouldn't be a female Capitol City police officer with a soccer injury would it?

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (Da7Vv)

177 That was how they supposedly proved Michael Cohen was in Vienna working with Russia on behalf of Trump.

Michael Cohen was never in Vienna.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 05:01 PM (viF8m)
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The method isn't actually bad, but it depends on two things:
1. Understanding that "the device is there" does *not* necessarily mean "the person who owns the device is there." It requires other corroboration.
2. Knowing that the device that's there is the device you're looking for.

Neither was the case with the "Cohen in Vienna" thing. It was either the wrong device (a device belonging to a different Michael Cohen, for example), or an outright fabrication.

"The device pinged the tower" is not itself meaningless, but it depends both on knowing what the device is *and* knowing that the person who owns the device was with it at the time. It ain't magic.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (azrRX)

178 I'd buy a coin with an image of Melania in a bikini.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (nXmou)

179 Criminal Minds, NCIS.

Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (pDt9x)

180 It seems to me, the FBI obstructed justice and lied to Congress with respect the J5 Pipe Bombing case. I can only assume the perps that committed these felonies were given awards and martinis for doing an eggs and bacon, by the book investigation coverup, and that none of them will ever suffer being indicted.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 05:04 PM (uv8gn)

Good to see you here! Some people were wondering about your apparent absence.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (npFr7)

181 Or put another way, the F.B.I. was once hated by leftists with the passion of a thousand burning suns.

That counts for a lot in my book. The fact that it appears to be run by leftists in recent decades follows a certain pattern we’ve seen.

I liked it better when the F.B.I. was hated by leftists. Not run by leftists, as their personal clean up crew for crooked politicians and the rest of it. Going after parents at PTA meetings who object to their children being groomed by kiddie fuckers in public schools.

See where I’m going with that? There was a pretty dramatic change in focus and direction. When did that happen? Under Reagan? Bush? Clinton?

Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (wJccJ)

182 The same place where it says that the Administrative State is the Fourth Branch of Government.
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The No Kings clause, duh.

Posted by: Kentajni Jackson Brown at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (Dv3i1)

183 >>The same place where it says that the Administrative State is the Fourth Branch of Government.

And yet we have a Supreme Court Justice that seem to believe that's exactly what the Constitution says. In invisible ink I guess.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 05:08 PM (viF8m)

184
Shouldn't they have had a more credible patsy set up than this dude?
Posted by: Oldcat
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Credible in what way? He did what he was told to do. His father is a felon, his sister and him too. He was as good or better than other set ups we've discovered on the FBI.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 05:08 PM (c35xG)

185 >>> 172 Search for list of top FBI shows. Think there are only 2 or 3? One list has 50.

I wonder how much taxpayer money was spent paying the networks for good PR.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 05:05 PM (Dv3i1)

50? Hmmph.

Posted by: see eye ay at December 09, 2025 05:08 PM (ULPxl)

186 It was the grandma.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 05:08 PM (9ipOP)

187 Good to see you here! Some people were wondering about your apparent absence.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Now you know who the Feds are on this website.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 05:09 PM (uv8gn)

188 Pam Bondi is looking into it.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 09, 2025 05:09 PM (abIsI)

189 Yeah, that guy. It would have been better if Cruz had kept is trap shut. Like at least 20 other Republican Senators did.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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I voted for him in the 16 primary. I now realize it would have been Bush Lite.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 09, 2025 05:09 PM (XvL8K)

190 Really? Cross-dressing JE Hoover with his blackmail files begs to differ.

Rotten to the core from day one.
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 09, 2025 05:05 PM (E66lT)
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Hoover was never a TV. That's just the typical counter-op.

I wouldn't care for him more if he was or wasn't. I've been led to believe that all that Hoover TV stuff is character assassination.

Do you know how common it was to insinuate that Joe McCarthy was queer for his brother?

This is mid-20th century Democrat destruction politics.

Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:10 PM (krQz2)

191 See where I’m going with that? There was a pretty dramatic change in focus and direction. When did that happen? Under Reagan? Bush? Clinton?
Posted by: Common Tater
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Roosevelt

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 05:10 PM (c35xG)

192 D'Antuono

This guy gets around.
He's the Jamie Gorelik of SAIC disasters.

Posted by: DaveA at December 09, 2025 05:10 PM (FhXTo)

193 I just looked up KPMG. Their practices are very suspect and they have paid millions in fines and lawsuit awards. Arthur Andersen was pristine by comparison.
Posted by: huerfano

When I was vetting auditors, they were the first name crossed off of the list.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 05:10 PM (b16/K)

194 >>> I'd buy a coin with an image of Melania in a bikini.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (nXmou)

I’d buy that for a dollar

Posted by: The guy who says, Id buy that for a dollar in robocop movies and the HQ at December 09, 2025 05:10 PM (3uBP9)

195 I'd buy a coin with an image of Melania in a bikini.
Posted by: ShainS

Have to say, that's a pretty solid option. I am down for Trump working the drive-thru window at McDonald's.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 05:11 PM (uv8gn)

196
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (azrRX)

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Just what a cop would say!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 09, 2025 05:11 PM (u73oe)

197 They are not tracking via cell tower... but they don't want to tell you HOW they are actually getting that data.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 09, 2025 05:06 PM (mP0Kj)
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They probably are, because it's a hell of a first-pass filter. The device needs to be connected to function.

So you can look through gigantic databases from numerous service providers for a geographic range (hard) or narrow it down fast by just looking at what was connected to likely towers during the interesting period. If desired, you can then pull records for those devices. It's probably much easier and faster to start with a subset of the data first. I dunno. I've never done it. But I'd hate to have to start with "all global location data for that day." That's a lot of data and virtually all of it is just noise anyway.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:11 PM (azrRX)

198 By the patsy idea, his depositing the bombs was gonna be a big factor in getting Trump.

But the fact that the FBI hid his identity for 5 years because revealing it would help Trump somehow...

These 2 facts don't seem to fit together.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:11 PM (8avO+)

199 Reported shooting at Kentucky State University in Frankfort. At this time, we are aware of some injuries. We will share more information as available. Law enforcement are on scene, and a suspect has been arrested.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 09, 2025 05:12 PM (abIsI)

200 Well, we already have Karoline Leavitt in a bikini, tanned, rested, and ready.

Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:12 PM (pDt9x)

201 189 Yeah, that guy. It would have been better if Cruz had kept is trap shut. Like at least 20 other Republican Senators did.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
_______

I voted for him in the 16 primary. I now realize it would have been Bush Lite.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 09, 2025 05:09 PM (XvL8K)

Same here, Biff. Same here.

Looking back, what I thought was a badge of honor by having the Bushes mad at Cruz by bucking the political machine as a Tea Partier was actually them being mad at Cruz because he wouldn't wait for his turn.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 05:13 PM (0CU3H)

202 KSU is a black school so it was probably a dis related shooting

Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 05:13 PM (uQzkA)

203 You can say that, but I know better, from my reading of history. They did excellent work at what they were tasked to do.

Posted by: Common Tater

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I used to have a list in my head, but so so many cases where they claim "success" were failure. On top of that,
- The hair and fiber lab
- The bit mark evidence.

I used to be a big fan of the FBI files TV show, but I noticed that most cases (a) the local PD actually solved it, or (b) They finally got around to looking at the most obvious suspect, or (c) the guy confessed or was ratted on. Very few were a result of their investigations.

Mostly what the did was promote themselves. That, they were good at. But look at so many big cases, Atlanta bombing, anthrax, unabomber,.... so many of them were nothing short of a display of incompetence. Maybe some time long ago they were good, but not the past 50 years.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 05:13 PM (mPytV)

204 I wouldn't care for him more if he was or wasn't. I've been led to believe that all that Hoover TV stuff is character assassination.

Do you know how common it was to insinuate that Joe McCarthy was queer for his brother?

This is mid-20th century Democrat destruction politics.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:10 PM (krQz2)

There was some great dirt in the Jefferson vs Adams campaign in 1796.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:13 PM (8avO+)

205 These 2 facts don't seem to fit together.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:11 PM (8avO+)
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Almost no one who thinks they're clever is as clever as they think they are.

There is still a lot of smoke around the actual bombs and whether they could have detonated at all.

Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:14 PM (krQz2)

206 "I'm thinking he was not talking, those "transactions" are just the phone seeking a tower? And somehow it also transmits a location, or maybe they are just going by which tower it connected to."

The vids I've seen has him circling all around the locations. Maybe he had Google maps open?

Posted by: barbarausa at December 09, 2025 05:14 PM (enw9G)

207 Sydney Sweeny >> Karoline Leavitt

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 09, 2025 05:14 PM (abIsI)

208 >>@TheStormRedux
·
4h
>>President Trump says that over the next couple of months, there will be evidence coming out proving that the 2020 election was stolen 👀

>>“It was a rigged election. Now everyone knows it. It’s going to come out over the next couple of months, too, loud and clear because WE HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION.”

Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 05:14 PM (viF8m)

209 Sydney Sweeny >> Karoline Leavitt
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 09, 2025 05:14 PM (abIsI)
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Sure, but they aren't playing the same game...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:15 PM (azrRX)

210 But I'd hate to have to start with "all global location data for that day." That's a lot of data and virtually all of it is just noise anyway.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:11 PM (azrRX)

When you think about it, it's pretty amazing that cellphones work at all. Somewhere, there must be a record kept of all the ping transactions of all phones, so that if I call 555-555-1212, the system knows to route my call to the last tower pinged by that phone.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 05:16 PM (npFr7)

211 If we are to believe some of the stuff we are hearing about this guy, he was easily manipulated.

Take a 30 year old black guy with autism and grill him for four hours and any competent police interrogator would be able to get him to confess to the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, even though that happened 60 years before he was born. So I don't know how good his confession actually is. Remember all of the actual evidence against him comes from the professional liars in Wray's FBI.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 05:16 PM (Da7Vv)

212 There was some great dirt in the Jefferson vs Adams campaign in 1796.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:13 PM (8avO+)
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Right. TJ is commonly known as the the guy who slept with a female slave. But it very likely was not TJ but his brother. And IIRC correctly it was a long relationship, not just getting some from the slave girls.

Also it's not the case that Adams was a hermaphrodite.

Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:16 PM (krQz2)

213 I'd buy a coin with an image of Melania in a bikini.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (nXmou)

Most would. Call it a challenge coin. Challenge yourself not to look at it every hour.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 05:16 PM (snZF9)

214 (I'm going to go wayyyyy out on the conspiracy theory limb)

Consider the fact that the J6 Committee (Lynching party) destroyed a significant amount of their documentation (illegally). There was, obviously, a selfish reason for that. They likely were communicating directly with the FBI, and some of those communications could easily have been instructing the FBI to back off of the J5 bomber once it was established that he, not only, didn't fit the narrative or their purpose, but diametrically was opposite of what they were trying to do.

NOW, consider the wealth of undestroyed documentation that was sitting down the FBI burn room. You have to assume that some of that information included communication documentation. And, while the J6 Committee brazenly destroyed evidence, the FBI might not have been so thorough.

I think the fall out from this is going to outweigh the incident by 10 fold....eventually.

Posted by: Capt. Conspiracy at December 09, 2025 05:17 PM (dIske)

215 "Kentucky State University shooting LIVE: At least one dead as campus on lockdown
At least one person is dead after an "active aggressor" opened fire on a US university campus"

a couple others injured.

https://tinyurl.com/2eyr5k72

Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 05:17 PM (vbXSk)

216 I'd buy a coin with an image of Melania in a bikini.
Posted by: ShainS
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I'd buy it even without the bikini.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 05:17 PM (XeU6L)

217 >>President Trump says that over the next couple of months, there will be evidence coming out proving that the 2020 election was stolen 👀

Preach it brother.

Posted by: Qtardo at December 09, 2025 05:17 PM (abIsI)

218 Sydney Sweeny >> Karoline Leavitt
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 09, 2025 05:14 PM (abIsI)

Two Beavers?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 05:17 PM (npFr7)

219 212 There was some great dirt in the Jefferson vs Adams campaign in 1796.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:13 PM (8avO+)
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Right. TJ is commonly known as the the guy who slept with a female slave. But it very likely was not TJ but his brother. And IIRC correctly it was a long relationship, not just getting some from the slave girls.

Also it's not the case that Adams was a hermaphrodite.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:16 PM (krQz2)

But James Madison was really really tiny, yes??

Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:18 PM (pDt9x)

220 Hoover was never a TV. That's just the typical counter-op.

I wouldn't care for him more if he was or wasn't. I've been led to believe that all that Hoover TV stuff is character assassination.

Do you know how common it was to insinuate that Joe McCarthy was queer for his brother?

This is mid-20th century Democrat destruction politics.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:10 PM (krQz2)

I don't care one way or another about the cross-dressing, other than to point out that the persistent stories about him doing so *in his office* strongly implicate his character. And susceptibility to blackmail.

Speaking of blackmail, I note you didn't address his unwarranted (see what I did there) collection of personal information for his giant enemies file.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 09, 2025 05:19 PM (E66lT)

221 But James Madison was really really tiny, yes??
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:18 PM (pDt9x)

everyone was tiny in that era, aside from Washington and Lincoln.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:19 PM (8avO+)

222 As for the FBI, not sure any charges can be made. If they chose just not to do their job, that's not a crime, I don't think.

If they saw who the defendant would be and said "nope, don't want it" and then just left the case open, I'm not sure that's illegal.

You'd need them lying on record in some official way to probably make any charges.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2025 05:19 PM (tOcjL)

223 It worked, didn't it?

Posted by: Zombie Harry Reid at December 09, 2025 05:19 PM (5FPX4)

224 But James Madison was really really tiny, yes??
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:18 PM (pDt9x)
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The Real James Madison was diminutive, yes.

Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:19 PM (krQz2)

225 NOW, consider the wealth of undestroyed documentation that was sitting down the FBI burn room. You have to assume that some of that information included communication documentation. And, while the J6 Committee brazenly destroyed evidence, the FBI might not have been so thorough.

I think the fall out from this is going to outweigh the incident by 10 fold....eventually.
Posted by: Capt. Conspiracy at December 09, 2025 05:17 PM (dIske)

I do believe that there was at least one good Ham 'N Egger who turned Patel and Bongino onto those burn bags.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 05:20 PM (0CU3H)

226 12 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:25 PM (Zz0t1

Well, a sponge doesn't have the thrusting power of a blade ,and anyway I think it's funnier when you're actually # 200 or something and still claim first .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 04:28 PM (7RYym)

Sour grapes?

Yay Sponge gets a solid first!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 09, 2025 05:20 PM (QGaXH)

227 172 Search for list of top FBI shows. Think there are only 2 or 3? One list has 50.

I wonder how much taxpayer money was spent paying the networks for good PR.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

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Not just networks. They did a lot of work with Hollywood. The grift was that they would act as "consultants" (and I presume agents got paid from that also) and the studio would make stories about their cases portraying them as superheros.

There were a lot of them. A couple off the top of my head are the Jimmy Stewart film Call Northside 777" and another about counterfeiting (well, secret service, but similar) called Mr. 880

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 05:21 PM (mPytV)

228 A further 51 phone numbers were identified as "not needing further action" because, curiously enough, the phones "belong[ed] to law enforcement officers or persons on the exclusion list."

This is good information to know. There are unofficial ways to get on the Exclusion List. Everyone has their price.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 05:21 PM (c3sdc)

229 I'm shocked, shock to find corruption in this brothel.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 09, 2025 05:21 PM (jc0TO)

230 But James Madison was really really tiny, yes??
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:18 PM (pDt9x)

That's what Dolley said.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 05:22 PM (zZu0s)

231 Intentional Negligence was when 51 IC members announced Hunter's laptop bore all the earmarks of a Russian Op, but none of them wanted to see the FBI's report on the laptop before signing.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 09, 2025 05:22 PM (wGerL)

232 But James Madison was really really tiny, yes??
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:18 PM (pDt9x)

That's what Dolley said.
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That's quite the Zinger!

Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 05:22 PM (TN0g+)

233 Report: DC Pipe bomb suspect wrote creepy “My Little Pony” fan-fiction

"Applebloom's eyes snapped open as she sat up in her bed, panting heavily and sweat dripping from her red mane […] The skeletons, the zombified ponies rising up from the ground, their decaying bodies, rotting flesh sliding off from their bones. She buried her face in her hooves, crying silently at the horrible images that inhabited her mind"

https://is.gd/R2Tdw0

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 05:22 PM (L/fGl)

234 And to think we were once a society that could be shocked by "Watergate."

Posted by: Zek at December 09, 2025 05:23 PM (5FPX4)

235 >>>Right. TJ is commonly known as the the guy who slept with a female slave. But it very likely was not TJ but his brother.
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Then there's that part about him taking her to France.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 05:23 PM (c35xG)

236 Speaking of blackmail, I note you didn't address his unwarranted (see what I did there) collection of personal information for his giant enemies file.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 09, 2025 05:19 PM (E66lT)
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I don't think that was in dispute. I mentioned him phone-tapping everybody of note in DC.

I'm not here to defend him, just wanted to mention that some of the most common scuttlebutt are likely slanders. I got that from a professor who was no fan of JEH either.

Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:23 PM (krQz2)

237 "Applebloom's eyes snapped open as she sat up in her bed, panting heavily and sweat dripping from her red mane […] The skeletons, the zombified ponies rising up from the ground, their decaying bodies, rotting flesh sliding off from their bones. She buried her face in her hooves, crying silently at the horrible images that inhabited her mind"

https://is.gd/R2Tdw0
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 05:22 PM (L/fGl)

A horse, even a cartoon one, sitting up in bed is an interesting problem.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:24 PM (8avO+)

238 Right. TJ is commonly known as the the guy who slept with a female slave. But it very likely was not TJ but his brother.
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You're messing with their narrative.

After all, Butterjug has stated that Jefferson on Mt. Rushmore is 'problematic'. They use that word as an unverifiable assertion.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 05:24 PM (XeU6L)

239 FBI Had J6 Bomber's Cell Phone Putting Him at the Scene of the Crime... Five Years Ago

Just because we're the nation's premier law enforcement agency doesn't mean we're going to go against The Narrative. "White Coal", here, he would not have helped.

Posted by: FBI at December 09, 2025 05:24 PM (IYMzU)

240 178 I'd buy a coin with an image of Melania in a bikini.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant

Sensible comments like this is why we need uptwinkles on this site.

Posted by: LGF Veteran at December 09, 2025 05:24 PM (oftw2)

241
They are not tracking via cell tower... but they don't want to tell you HOW they are actually getting that data.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 09, 2025 05:06 PM (mP0Kj)

I'll bet you it's in the TOS fine print for your phone that govt JBTs can pull your location via GPS without a warrant because GPS is govt built infrastructure.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2025 05:25 PM (y9nCu)

242 FIB: Let's get the guy whose glove is in a picture holding open a Capitol door before we get the guy who planted two bombs!!

Top. Men.

Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:25 PM (krQz2)

243 I'm not here to defend him, just wanted to mention that some of the most common scuttlebutt are likely slanders. I got that from a professor who was no fan of JEH either.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:23 PM (krQz2)

Given his enemies, being a TV would have lost him his job at a minimum after which it would be too late for the blackmail files. You have to deploy that first and be cleaner than the guy you are blackmailing.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:26 PM (8avO+)

244 Yeah, those bot farms also watched Tucker every evening on Fox News, too.
Posted by: Jewish Gaslighting Farm at December 09, 2025 04:54 PM (K+su+)

He was on MOSSAD payroll then. So it was Kosher.

Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 05:26 PM (g47mK)

245 This busty redhead does not have a great deal of trust in the FBI or the press:
http://tiny.cc/pr7w001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:26 PM (azrRX)

246 My favorite line in Die Hard is "Looks like we're going to need some more FBI guys."

Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:26 PM (krQz2)

247 "Intentional Negligence"?

Yeah, they toured with Suicidal Tendencies.

Posted by: t-bird at December 09, 2025 05:26 PM (IYMzU)

248

I'll bet you it's in the TOS fine print for your phone that govt JBTs can pull your location via GPS without a warrant because GPS is govt built infrastructure.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2025 05:25 PM (y9nCu)

Sadly I bet you're correct here.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 09, 2025 05:26 PM (jPh2t)

249 And to think we were once a society that could be shocked by "Watergate."
Posted by: Zek

Which is funny, as we now know that Mark Felt faked all of that as revenge for not getting the director job at the FBI, and a CIA plant pretended to be a reporter.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 05:26 PM (b16/K)

250 When you think about it, it's pretty amazing that cellphones work at all. Somewhere, there must be a record kept of all the ping transactions of all phones, so that if I call 555-555-1212, the system knows to route my call to the last tower pinged by that phone.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

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It's hierarchical, like the old AT&T system. They don't need a master list, they just have to Id who is keeping track of that particular phone number.

Then they look that up, and find the latest ping and route it to that tower.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 05:27 PM (mPytV)

251 Checking leftwing forums the response from the left to this guy is funny.

There is a fair amount of "this is all fake Trump is blaming an innocent man!" but the more common response is that this black leftwing anarchist guy is rightwing because he believes there was fraud in the 2020 election.

And this is funny because everyone knows there was fraud, and on a significant scale, so by this logic pretty much everyone is a MAGA/rightwinger

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 05:28 PM (sKqQm)

252 That's what Dolley said.
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That's quite the Zinger!
Posted by: Crusader
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A Ho-Ho about his Twinkie Ding-Dong.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 09, 2025 05:28 PM (XvL8K)

253 Whatever Hoover's peronal predilictions were, and whatever personal animus he felt for particular political figures, I believe that he cared about the well-being of the country foremost.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 05:28 PM (XeU6L)

254 234 And to think we were once a society that could be shocked by "Watergate."
Posted by: Zek at December 09, 2025 05:23 PM (5FPX4)

Now I think Watergate was a total op against Nixon by TPTB.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 09, 2025 05:28 PM (jPh2t)

255 >>>
I do believe that there was at least one good Ham 'N Egger who turned Patel and Bongino onto those burn bags.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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Yes. It's improbable that everyone of them is corrupt.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 05:28 PM (c35xG)

256 A horse, even a cartoon one, sitting up in bed is an interesting problem.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:24 PM (8avO+)

'Buried her 'face' in her hooves.'

Can horses do that? Muzzle, not face?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 05:29 PM (zZu0s)

257 NOOD!

Posted by: Moonbeam at December 09, 2025 05:29 PM (rbKZ6)

258 Whatever Hoover's peronal predilictions were, and whatever personal animus he felt for particular political figures, I believe that he cared about the well-being of the country foremost.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 05:28 PM (XeU6L)
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Now, Hoover did have a Smithers-like assistant....

Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:29 PM (krQz2)

259 Anyone know if any of that Farmer Bailout money is coming our way?

Posted by: Macedonian Content Farmer Alliance at December 09, 2025 05:30 PM (oftw2)

260
Now I think Watergate was a total op against Nixon by TPTB.
Posted by: CaliGirl
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If he was a Dem they would have turned a blind eye toward him protecting his crew.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 05:30 PM (c35xG)

261 Can horses do that? Muzzle, not face?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 05:29 PM (zZu0s)

Horse legs are pretty optimized for "just run damn fast in the forward direction" so I'd be a bit surprised if one could rotate the hoof to face up. Farriers I've seen have to curl the hoof to behind the 'knee' to be up, not twist it.

Cats can twist the front paw to face the face to clean the paws.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:33 PM (8avO+)

262 I'm betting that John Doe from the Oklahoma City bombing was working for the FBI.

Posted by: Jolo at December 09, 2025 05:33 PM (QZdNa)

263 I don't think that was in dispute. I mentioned him phone-tapping everybody of note in DC.

I'm not here to defend him, just wanted to mention that some of the most common scuttlebutt are likely slanders. I got that from a professor who was no fan of JEH either.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:23 PM (krQz2)

OK, I came into that with a way-too-shut mind. Thanks for the response.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 09, 2025 05:33 PM (E66lT)

264 So, the score is:
- Pulled agents off of child sex trafficking cases to work J6 cases
- Pulled agents off of the J6 pipe bomber case to work other J6 cases
- which agents later found time to investigate whether napkins Trump kept from a random state dinner were really secretly the nuclear launch codes

While
- no agents were assigned to investigate Ray Epps
- no agents were assigned to investigate who built--and dismantled--the gallows
- no agents were assigned to investigate who released the bomb-proof magnetic locks and "breached" the Capital doors
- no agents were assigned to investigate the Antifa-affiliated persons--despite multiple black-clad, face-masked Antifa--in the crowd and the Capital

I'm beginning to think the FBI is rather political in who and what it investigates ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 05:34 PM (HXT0k)

265 Do you know how common it was to insinuate that Joe McCarthy was queer for his brother?
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That was because Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers were queers. That’s how the urbane, sophisticated Hiss got to “know” such a clod in the first place, after all.

Read Whitewashed By History about Sen. McCarthy. They use the exact same playbook then as now.

My point is the F.B.I. wasn’t classifying Americans as subversives and “White Supremacists” in those days. They rightly considered Communism as a threat to our system of government.

All that changed at some point, and dramatically so. To try and equate the 1940s F.B.I. with the 1990s F.B.I. is retarded. Maybe they were SOBs then, too, but they were our SOBs.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 05:34 PM (Lqx3s)

266 I'm old enough to remember when everyone said that the cell phone data that Dinesh D'Souza unearthed that pin pointed all the ballot drops during the 2020 election wasn't enough proof to track down the voter fraud. I guess the Feds have changed their minds now?

Posted by: TheShadowsPawn at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (lqLYa)

267 As I remember, when the Soviet Union collapsed the "J. Edgar is a transvestite stuff" was disclosed by the Russian Federation as a KGB plot to discredit him.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (Da7Vv)

268 I hope Trump dies dump all the info about the theft of the 2020 election. Of course the Dems will say "old news"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 05:37 PM (D+mpw)

269 But look at so many big cases, Atlanta bombing, anthrax, unabomber,.... so many of them were nothing short of a display of incompetence. Maybe some time long ago they were good, but not the past 50 years.
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It would be helpful if you read what I wrote. That is exactly what I’m saying. They went bad, long after Roosevelt, Hoover hated FDR and with good reason, probably. At some point there was an institutional focus change. They were going after student radicals and anarchists in the 1960s, maybe not as effectively as they should have, but they were playing for the right team, so to speak.

By the 1990s, there was a distinct shift. I would suggest during the Clinton years, but I don’t know for sure.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 05:41 PM (Lqx3s)

270
Then there's that part about him taking her to France.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 05:23 PM (c35xG)

Then there's the Democrat Party Tammany Hall brother and Democrat Congressman Daniel Sickles who murdered his wife's lover (US Attorney for DC Barton Key, Francis Scott Key's son) in front of hundreds of witnesses in Lafayette Square, a stone's throw from the White House. A few years earlier, he was essentially a pimp for Fanny White, one of New Yawk's most successful courtesans. Among their many indiscretions, he took her to England in lieu of his wife when he was on James Buchanan's staff while he was Ambassador. Sickles introduced White around London society (and to Queen Victoria herself) as Miss Bennett, implying that she was the daughter of Sickles' great enemy, James Bennett editor of the NY Herald. Sickles thought this was hilarious, at least until someone ratted him out, causing a scandal.

Unlike most Democrat assholes, Sickles had a sense of humor.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2025 05:44 PM (y9nCu)

271 As I remember, when the Soviet Union collapsed the "J. Edgar is a transvestite stuff" was disclosed by the Russian Federation as a KGB plot to discredit him.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (Da7Vv)
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Ah, yeah, that's right. That's what it was.

Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:50 PM (krQz2)

272 186 people is a pretty small lift, investigation wise.

They have the cell phone records, which means they have the names. they can go on-line and start to eliminate many of these people just by searching social media, etc. For example, the bomber was not obese, the bomber was right-handed, the height of the bomber can be pretty accurately estimated. etc. That should have narrowed the list to a couple of dozen people. They had FOUR YEARS to get this done. 2-3 agents were more than sufficient to solve the case. Most of the work being done on-line.

Reminds me of that Kevin Costner movie, no way out. They have a picture of the killer, who may be Kevin Costner. A computer is slowly enhancing the photo. Costner then gives the order to "re-process" it, delaying his revelation as the potential killer.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 05:53 PM (C3IAS)

273

This conspiracy nut is not buying any of this bullshit. Half-truth at best.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 09, 2025 05:58 PM (cS1cw)

274 By the by, thew FBI is able to pull in all the resources they need to do big investigations - police, sheriffs, even regular citizens. When they scour an open field, with 50 people, shoulder to shoulder, only about 10% of those people are FBI. Rest are military or civil volunteers.

This lack of resources stuff is just bullshit. If the job is crunching a lot of data they have all the resources they need.

It took under a year for the current FBI to solve the cold case - and they did so starting with 5-year-old data that they already had in the files.

The case didn't get solved because the FBI and Biden didn't want it to be solved. That is the only possible conclusion.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 06:01 PM (C3IAS)

275 It's not just this case - look at the current FBIs record in solving cases lately. They had 112,000 arrests from Jan. 20 through late June 2025 compared with roughly 51,000 arrests over the same calendar window in 2024. They are arresting DOUBLE the number of bad guys as before Trump. Why? what changed? My guess is DEI bullshit is sucking up less time. They are also demanding more results. They are focused on actual crime, not bullshit political nonsense. They stopped playing footsie with terrorist groups like antifa. They are prosecuting people. They are playing hardball.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 06:06 PM (C3IAS)

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