Posted on 10/25/2018 2:05:53 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
New York City Police Commissioner James O’Neill said Thursday that law enforcement officials are treating the suspicious packages containing possible explosives sent to high-profile Democrats this week as “live devices," not “hoax devices.”
“This is something that should be taken seriously,” O’Neill told reporters at the press conference in New York. “We are treating them as live devices."
“As far as a hoax device, we’re not treating it that way,” O’Neill added.
His remarks came after some conservatives, including radio host Rush Limbaugh, suggested that the bombs could have been part of a hoax or false-flag operation.
Officials said Thursday that they are treating the suspected bombs as “live devices” and “suspected” explosives. At the same time, they offered little details of the ongoing investigation, refusing to answer even whether they had concluded privately one way or another that the devices were actually meant to explode.
The FBI, along with state and local officials across the country, is spearheading the investigation into, so far, 10 suspicious packages in total.
The packages, all similar in appearance, were addressed to former President Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, billionaire philanthropist George Soros, CNN, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), former Attorney General Eric Holder, actor Robert DeNiro and former Vice President Joe Biden.
All were discovered between Monday and Thursday of this week. In almost all of the cases, the packages were intercepted by authorities before reaching the targets. Officials in New York cautioned Thursday that the investigation is in the early stages and ongoing, and warned that further packages could be found.
“We’re doing our best to make sure if there are any out there, we identify them quickly,” O’Neill said.
Authorities have sent all 10 packages to the FBI’s laboratory in Quantico, Va., for further testing.
“We are working quickly to process and analyze relevant information,” said William Sweeney, the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s New York field office. “We will continue to do so for as long as it takes.”
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) again described the attempted attacks as an act of terrorism.
“It’s absolutely terrorism because it’s an effort to use violence to make a political impact," de Blasio said, echoing language he used the day before.
That's not how it usually plays out.
A left-wing extremist is generally given a pass because they gave us a 'teachable moment'.
So they’re “hoax devices” that you’re treating as “live devices”, because you want everyone to see how serious you’re treating it.
Got it.
Just look at the videos when they were delivery and by whom. Identify and arrest.
How many of the devices have been detonated?
Which is a deliberate obfuscation. Were they live or not?
At the same time, they offered little details of the ongoing investigation, refusing to answer even whether they had concluded privately one way or another that the devices were actually meant to explode.
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The fact that they won’t simply say they are or are not actual explosive devices strongly suggests they were not bombs. This is getting ridiculous.
Indeed, Pc is a national security issue, allowing terrorism to move under cover of hate crime legislation. They do teachable moments, we do hate crimes without even committing a crime.
They started with the Russia collusion false flag, false rape allegation by Ms Ford, and now they are doing it with BOMBS! And these morons in Law Enforcement cannot even figure, until it will be too late with nukes going off, Pearl Habrbor style, with Trump blamed
If they were real bombs the USPS and anyone else who transports packages should have been alerted so they can take precautionary measures. Instead there is this deliberate obfuscation of an important fact that the public needs to know.
And the powder sent to conservatives last week?
#DoubleStandard
I’ve got news for DeBlasio, It’s only considered “terrorism” if 2 (count em 2) acts of violence occurred from the scenario. They did not so not considered a terrorist act.
>>Which is a deliberate obfuscation. Were they live or not?
They will tell you after election day
Even if they treated them like nuclear weapons it doesn’t mean they’d go bang.
Every one of these should be treated as a live device until definitively shown otherwise.
mealy-mouth bullshit ... TREATING them [as if] they are live devices ... TREATING them as SUSPECTED explosives ...
They should always be treated as live bombs. If there is any complacency (it’s just another fake), eventually there will be a real bomb, likely targeted at a leftist that will be a symbolic martyr.
Those who commit false flag fake bomb attacks should be prosecuted the same as someone who plants a real bomb. Attempted murder with federal time.
UNTIL YOU DETERMINE THAT THEY ARE FAKE AND COULDN'T EXPLODE IF THEY WANTED TO.
At which point you say, "THIS THING IS A HOAX" and you treat it as such and you tell the media to stop lying about it.
I hate the media. I can't believe a single word they say. They are beyond useless. They make teats on a boar hog look useful. They can all FOAD.
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