Austin bomber had 'target list,' used 'very unique' batteries purchased from Asia, McCaul says

Fox News. com ^ | March 22, 2018 | Travis Fedschun

[BlackAdderess]

where did you find out that his dad was senior fbi and what other one are you referring to?

[blu]

I believe you have your facts wrong re: his dad. The dad’s name is different.

[thoughtomator]

double checking to make sure it seems I made an error, never mind

[caww]

Well there's a lot of angry people today who don't go around setting off bombs to kill people as this killer did. Again he wanted to kill people and on several occasions....which he would have continued with if not stopped.......All these side discussions of his mental state, upbringing, and the like, what he liked or hated are just distractions from his motive to kill people because that's what he decided, planned and carried out to do. What people for decades have tried to do is 'understand' the criminal mind, which has been with us since creation. Some people act on their 'thinking' others do not. This guy chose to go the way he did knowing full well what the end would mean. They always do.....

[Steely Tom]

Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski machined his own screws and other tiny bomb parts so they couldn’t be traced.

[wally_bert]

Certainly not EverReady batteries.

[BradyLS]

The impression of the Conditt character I’m reading is one of a Jeckyll and Hyde type. By day, an upstanding and likeable young man. By night a cunning but troubled young adult.

There are folks out there who can pull the wool over the eyes of family and friends, so the idea that he can be a regular dude by day and a bomber by night is not so far-fetched. But there are enough gaps in this guy’s character (what little we know) that I’m surprised that a jobless, home-schooled Millennial with no prior record or known issues (again, as he is presented as not having) would think up and embark on a bombing campaign all by themselves. And that the authorities are seemingly so quick to close the book on it.

[Pollster1]

It is beginning to sound like the government grabbed all cell phone location information on every phone that was near each bombing, and then pulled a list of every phone that had all / most sites in common . . . Isn’t it great to know we live in a police state where the 4th amendment is null and void whenever it inconveniences the government?

I don't see this as a violation of search and seizure. Obtaining location and identification data in the course of a criminal investigation is entirely appropriate, and we voluntarily give that information to our cell phone companies. They are entitled to share it at will, subject, of course, to customer backlash if their sharing becomes offensive.

[caww]

......"Conditt character I’m reading is one of a Jeckyll and Hyde type. By day, an upstanding and likeable... man. By night a cunning ....adult"......

Lets loose the flowery words...this guy was also considered so....

[SecAmndmt]

His cell phone survived the explosion fully intact? How did the authorities access.it?

[glock rocks]

You can buy a good faraday sleeve for your cell phone for less than $10 on Amazon.

[pingman]

I’m more concerned about how a 23 year old loser gets ahold of explosives and detonation devices.

[Slyfox]

First I have hear of what you say. Can you elaborate? I am not doubting you, but man if it is true a lot of other things come into play.

[CodeToad]

Internet. Everything you need to build such things is found at a grocery store.

[PUGACHEV]

Yeah, Amazon sells terrific bicycle lights made in China for under $50 that are rated at 10,000 LM. Really, I don’t think they are 2,000 LM, but that’s still brighter than anything else in their price range. The problem is that the Chinese Li batteries that come with them last about two months, so I am constantly buying more of these very unique Asian batteries at $6-7 a pop. I suppose that puts me on a list somewhere.

[Sam Gamgee]

Funny that. The FBI took over ...and all silence...

[mass55th]

"In the recording, Manley said the message is rather "the outcry of a very challenged young man talking about challenges in his personal life."

What challenges? How to tell Mommy and Daddy that he's a homo?

[TexasGunLover]

His cell phone survived the explosion fully intact? How did the authorities access.it?

Explosions do not obliterate all matter around them (unless nuclear).

Solid state memory is very robust, and it's doubtful the chip itself or even possibly the phone was damaged at all.

[TexasGunLover]

I’m more concerned about how a 23 year old loser gets ahold[sic] explosives and detonation devices.

You're kidding, right? The average home garage and cleaning cabinet has most of the materials required to make an explosive device.

[WayneS]

I noticed the same thing. In proper grammar, the adjective unique should not be modified via another adjective. Something is either unique, or it is not unique. There are not varying degrees of unique.