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| Killers erased digital presence day before the attacks |
| 2015-12-04 |
| The Muslim husband and wife behind the mass shooting in San Bernardino began erasing their digital footprint a day in advance of the deadly attack, deleting email accounts, disposing of hard drives and smashing their cellphones, according to law enforcement investigators who are treating the probe as a counterterrorism case. Intelligence sources said there is still no explicit evidence linking the two to known terrorists on U.S. or foreign watch lists and that the couple was not on the FBI's radar before Wednesday's deadly shooting rampage. |
| Posted by:KBK |
| #8 Every person going to the theater should be armed to the teeth. Screw the police, they won't help us. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2015-12-04 14:02 |
| #7 Some of the folks who know this stuff way better than I do suggest that the Community Center party was a 'secondary' or tertiary target and that the 'primary' wasn't going to work out for some reason. RJ's comment that they 'popped off early' might be close to the truth too, but it may have been that something happened (personnel issues?; more security at the 'primary' than they figured?) that may have caused them to go into fallback mode. Curious to know if there was a larger venue going on that day within 10-15 miles of San Bernardino or scheduled within a day or two after Wednesday. The trend by other terrorists seems to be the destruction of 'evidence' between 12 and 36 hours prior to the actual attack. It wouldn't have been sooner due to the 'digital erase' timeline. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2015-12-04 10:42 |
| #6 Doesn't this prove that it wasn't workplace violence (beyond the fact they had the rounds, pipe bombs, gopros, and such ready to go). They popped off early, its the only way to account for ISIS cheerleading but not taking credit. I don't know San Bernadino and potential targets in that area and so far nobody has gone so far as to speculate. My gut instinct suggests that the Star Wars opening weekend would be a juicy target filled with people. If you have one go in the front door shooting and throwing pipe bombs you could have another shooting at people existing a cinema you'd have a high count. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-12-04 10:10 |
| #5 Intelligence sources said there is still no explicit evidence linking the two to known terrorists on U.S. or foreign watch lists and that the couple was not on the FBI's radar before Wednesday's deadly shooting rampage. And no 'credible threats', either? Were there any 'credible threats' the day before the Paris slaughter? How about 09/10/01? No credible threat means they don't have a [insert your own *&%$#@ expletive here] clue. But these are the guys who are going to screen refugees for us? They let the crazy wife in, and she wasn't even from Syria. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2015-12-04 07:49 |
| #4 Really this is just SOP tradecraft for carefully planned work place violence |
| Posted by: Alpha2c 2015-12-04 00:52 |
| #3 Nothing gets past you, KBK. ;-) |
| Posted by: gorb 2015-12-04 00:17 |
| #2 Hm, maybe it is tomorrow... |
| Posted by: KBK 2015-12-04 00:03 |
| #1 This was intended for tomorrow. I really wish the Tomorrow button would highlight and toggle. I thought I clicked it, but how do you know? |
| Posted by: KBK 2015-12-04 00:02 |