(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . (In Other News) 27 Months After Jan. 6: Why it's a Disaster That They Haven't Caught the Bomber [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-04-05 Attribution: FBI Preface: As you might have heard, Donald Trump was arrested this week, for charges related to falsification of business records and unrecorded campaign contributions. While it is nice to see some sign of life from the US law enforcement apparatus as a whole, these charges are unrelated to Jan. 6 and the effort to overthrow the 2020 election. They may deter future insurrectionists into properly filing their porn star hush money as campaign contributions, but they will not deter them from insurrection. With that, I proceed. In this month’s update on continued DOJ failure: They still have not caught the bomber. This is one of the details that frightens me about our country’s effort to protect our democracy by bringing the Jan. 6 conspirators to justice (or rather, failing to do so). The facts surrounding the bomber are an aspect of the Jan. 6 attack that holds the potential to be so important, it must not be overlooked by investigators, nor forgotten by the American public. The actions of the bomber are the one factor that, all by itself, indicates almost beyond doubt that the events of that day were not simply a bunch of angry people storming the Capitol, but rather, a chilling, coordinated and multi-faceted conspiracy to prevent the Presidential transfer of power by force and violence. While it is remotely possible that the bomber was a lone actor, this possibility is extremely unlikely; rather, investigators must act based on the scenario that is both far more likely, and more dangerous: that the bomber is at the center of, or at most only a few links from, the heart of this conspiracy. “But Will, it took 20 years to find the Unabomber. Sit back and wait. Give the DOJ some time.” I cannot be so patient, for a couple of reasons. First, there is a higher level of urgency. (A point that is often missed when comparing the Jan. 6 investigation to, say, Watergate.) The Unabomber was a criminal who needed to be caught, but he was not a threat to the country’s ability to continue as a democratic government. The Jan. 6 bomber, and the conspiracy he (or she?) almost certainly played a significant role in, was. But the second reason we need to see a much faster result in this case is: They didn’t have 800 of the Unabomber’s closest friends in jail! And, a further list of potential co-conspirators available by, for example, paging through the speakers’ list of the 2020 Republican National Convention. The Unabomber was indeed a lone actor. That is why it was so hard to find him. The Jan. 6 bomber, in all conceivable likelihood, was not. He was a part of some group, somewhere. Proud Boys? Oath Keepers? Morons of Milwaukee? Who knows. But the point is, he took his actions while in communication with others who were part of the Jan. 6 conspiracy. Probably, some of those people are in jail now. I wish I felt confident that the DOJ had gone to every single one of those people and said, “Let’s talk about your prison sentence in relation to any information you may have for us about the bomber”...but I’m not confident they’ve done that at all. (Because nothing I’ve yet seen has given me confidence in the vigor of their investigation.) But the point is not simply that DOJ can use the ground-level rioters they have in jail cells to gain information. The bomber is a compelling sign that Jan. 6 is the work of sinister, organized, and potentially dangerous conspirators, and thus justifies investigatory steps aimed at others beyond the rioters themselves. Meadows… Stone… Flynn… Bannon… Alexander… Boebert… (I could go on and on...) It is a safe bet that there are people in the public eye, along the lines of those I’ve mentioned and many more, who know something about the bomber. Investigate them aggressively! Is the concept of a conspiracy to overthrow democracy too vague to get the proper sign-offs on search warrants? How about the concept of a bomb? And even in terms of regular investigative techniques, it is disappointing that they haven’t come up with something. They have the guy on video...you’d like to think the DOJ would have a team on that guy that could track him down in under two years. Oh well. Here’s the bottom line, in all likelihood: When you get to the center of the conspiracy, you can get to the bomber. And conversely, when you can get the bomber, you can get to the center of the conspiracy. It appears extremely likely that as of now, neither have happened. DOJ failure in the Jan. 6 investigation is a major problem that requires action at the level of the Attorney General or higher to fix...right now. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/5/2160246/--In-Other-News-27-Months-After-Jan-6-Why-it-s-a-Disaster-That-They-Haven-t-Caught-the-Bomber Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/