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The FBI has spent years searching for the person who put bombs near the Democratic and Republican committee headquarters, hours before the a
Ryan Lucas and Carrie Johnson at NPR:
The man authorities say is responsible for placing two pipe bombs near the U.S. Capitol complex in 2021 told investigators he believed conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was stolen from then-President Trump, according to a person familiar with the investigation. The FBI on Thursday arrested Brian J. Cole Jr., 30, and charged him with transportation of an explosive device via interstate commerce, and attempted malicious destruction by means of an explosive device, according to an arrest warrant filed in his case. Attorney General Pam Bondi said the investigation continues and more charges may be added. The FBI has spent years searching for the person who put bombs near the Democratic and Republican committee headquarters, hours before a mob of Trump supporters assaulted the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The Department of Justice said Cole spoke to law enforcement for more than four hours on Thursday in a custodial interview. He expressed views supportive of Trump, and said he believed the 2020 conspiracy theories, according to the person familiar with the investigation, who wasn't authorized to speak publicly.
Cole spoke to investigators after his arrest at his home in Woodbridge, Va., that he shares with his mother and other family members, about 30 miles from Washington, according to an FBI affidavit filed in court. New leaders at the FBI and the Justice Department intensified their focus on the case this year amid intense pressure to solve the crime, including from Trump's political base.
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Jan. 6 timeline
The discovery of the bombs occurred at a critical moment in 2021 — the first was discovered just before the initial breach of rioters at the Peace Circle near the Capitol, and then the second was found as Proud Boys helped flood the Capitol's west front and the fighting was intensifying. "If those pipe bombs were intended to be a diversion, plainly speaking, it worked," Capitol Police Inspector General Michael Bolton told Congress in 2021. Former USCP Chief Steven Sund wrote in his book that the discovery of the bombs diverted attention and resources at critical moments: "I believe the timing and placement of these devices were deliberate diversionary tactics, intended to divert significant resources away from securing the Capitol, which they succeeded in doing."
The person who put pipe bombs near both the RNC and DNC headquarters in early January 2021 was Brian Cole Jr. The suspect was a Trump supporter who championed election denialist propaganda.
See Also:
Ken Klippenstein: Jan. 6 Pipe Bomber Finally Arrested Half Decade Later
Civil Discourse (Joyce Vance): An Alleged Bomber, Arrested and Charged
Civil Discourse (Joyce Vance): Charges in the RNC/DNC Bomb Planting Case
Investigators seized over 150 pipe bombs and other devices when they arrested a Virginia man on a firearms charge
Here's a story that may be overlooked because of the terrorist incident in New Orleans and the exploding Tesla in Las Vegas.
A MAGA nut named Brad Spafford has been arrested for stockpiling a large cache homemade explosives at his garage near Norfolk, Virginia.
Federal agents in the US found one of the largest stockpiles of homemade explosives they have ever seized when they arrested a Virginia man on a firearms charge last month, according to a court filing by federal prosecutors. Investigators seized more than 150 pipe bombs and other homemade devices when they searched the home of Brad Spafford north-west of Norfolk in December, the prosecutors said in a motion filed on Monday. The prosecutors wrote that this is believed to be “the largest seizure by number of finished explosive devices in FBI history”.
FYI: the FBI dates back almost a century. So that covers a lot of history.
Most of the bombs were found in a detached garage at the home in Isle, along with tools and bomb-making materials including fuses and pieces of plastic pipe, according to court documents. The prosecutors also wrote: “Several additional apparent pipe bombs were found in a backpack in the home’s bedroom, completely unsecured,” in the home he shares with his wife and two young children. Spafford, 36, was charged with possession of a firearm in violation of the National Firearms Act. Law enforcement officers allege he owned an unregistered short barrel rifle. Prosecutors said that he faces “numerous additional potential charges” related to the explosives.
The FBI was tipped off about Spafford by a concerned citizen.
The informant, a friend, told authorities Spafford had disfigured his hand in 2021 while working on homemade explosives. Prosecutors said he only has two fingers on his right hand. The informant told authorities that Spafford was using pictures of the president, an apparent reference to Joe Biden, for target practice and that “he believed political assassinations should be brought back”, prosecutors wrote. Numerous law enforcement officers and bomb technicians searched the property on 17 December. The agents located the rifle and the explosive devices, some of which had been hand-labeled as “lethal” and some of which were loaded into a wearable vest, court documents state. Technicians detonated most of the devices on site because they were deemed unsafe to transport, though several were kept for analysis.
Spafford is a determined wannabe domestic terrorist. He even continued to manufacture explosives after accidentally blowing off three fingers on his right hand.
Donald Trump has nominated the notoriously unqualified Kash Patel to head the FBI. More worryingly, Patel pals around with the far right and has made threatening remarks against journalists and political opponents. Among Trump's pack of loathsome nominees, Patel stands out as the worst. He would likely ignore domestic terrorists.
it's still (barely) miku day where i am guys i promise
anyways yeah just finished a new talkloid! ft the triple baka squad and also robot jones is here as a narrator idk why
Happy December 37th, 2020 everybody!
#MAGABomber gets 20.
“We believe that the president’s rhetoric contributed to Mr. Sayoc’s behavior."
No shit, Sherlock.
— Grant Stern @grantstern
One of #TrumpsTerrorists #TrumpResignNow
Do you remember that MAGA-Chud who was sending pipe bombs through the mail? And that guy who made death threats against the Boston Globe? And the guy who drove into the protestors at Charlottesville?
Mike Lester hopes you don’t, but he really needs you to remember Sarah Huckabee Sanders being asked to leave a privately owned dining establishment.
