As we told you yesterday, law enforcement said that “some” of the devices mailed to prominent liberals and Dem politicians this week “were flawed and not capable of exploding.”
That’s not quite the entire story.
Here’s Adam Housley filling in the rest from his sources.
First up, “the belief is that they all didn’t go off by design. They were all missing a couple of components”:
So here is the clarification on semantics on all this: the FBI Lab will@make the final call on all of these. So far the belief is that they all didn’t go off by design. They were all missing a couple of components.
— Adam Housley (@adamhousley) October 25, 2018
His sources are also disputing media reports that some of the devices could have exploded because of the powder inside:
Some of the media is reporting they could have because of the powder found inside. It was an unstable powder…and again the strong belief is that all were missing a couple of components on purpose. None could have gone off this far
— Adam Housley (@adamhousley) October 25, 2018
Now, here’s where the semantics comes in. According to Housley, the FBI does not want the public to “think they are all hoaxes, because one could be real” and then “people might let their guards down”:
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AND…..Agents also don’t want everyone to think they are all hoaxes, because one could be real…people might let their guards down. And that might be the long game in all this. So again semantics…hoax may never be used officially, but all were designed not to detonate.
— Adam Housley (@adamhousley) October 25, 2018
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Related:
Report: Some of the delivered devices ‘were flawed and not capable of exploding’ https://t.co/KuZD1lRKcP
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 25, 2018
NYT: Investigators examining if bombs 'were hoax devices that … would not have exploded' https://t.co/p9ec92ijND
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 25, 2018
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