Bad Wigins wrote:
It's unlikely whoever sent the bombs expected them to actually reach their targets. So presumably having them found and reported in the media was the intention.
The cops have said "all the components" - explosive, detonator, timer - were present in the devices. But they did not confirm that any of them were actually functional, armed and set to detonate at any time.
Letting CNN take a photo, and letting bleach near the device, is still a glaring loose thread that they will have to explain. If the cops thought that was a real bomb, nobody would have been allowed near it, let alone with chemicals that could destroy evidence. They'd have a bomb squad blow it up before examining it. Maybe CNN took the photo before the cops were involved, but that makes the Clorox wipes all the more suspicious, and potentially damning.
Wasn't that also the package sent by courier, having postage with no postmark? That’s particularly odd. How did that one arrive at CNN on the same day the other “bombs” mailed via USPS were discovered, especially if some of them originated in Florida?
I took a short training course on how to spot letter bombs (worked at a courthouse). These particular bombs don’t quite fit the mold. Bomber Would never send one via courier (not anonymous enough), postage was too neat (usually use several different types of stamps and amount Is over what is needed), package typically wrapped in extra tape or string, sent in box and not envelopes. and of course, the bomb usually works. The sender wasn’t trying to disguise any of these bombs, either, as they are reported to look alike. In fact, the one sent to Robert Deniro was discovered after an ex-agent, who is tasked with opening DeNiro’s mail, saw the picture of the CNN “bomb” on TV, and called law-enforcement immediately telling them that he had seen a package that looked just like it in DeNiro’s offices that day.
This is one strange case.