mikece on Sept 24, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: FBI arrests 75-year-old for allegedly placing pipe...
Are we back to the Six Week Cycle again where the FBI arrests someone before they can pull off a "terrorist attack?" Were the bombs in question legit bombs that could have blown up or is this another case of an undercover FBI agent convincing someone with disaffected sentiments to "take action" and even provided them with inert pipe bombs and a realistic looking triggering device? The FBI has been documented to pull this scam with regularity to justify their budgets; the No Agenda Show podcast has covered this over the years calling it the "Six Week Cycle" because you can almost set you watch by the regularity of it happening (and frequently with the post script of "Thank God this domestic terrorist didn't know how to make a bomb that worked!).
Here's the latest from Baltimore:
BALTIMORE (AP) — The founder of a Florida-based neo-Nazi group was convicted Monday of conspiring with his former girlfriend to plan an attack on Maryland’s power grid in furtherance of their shared racist beliefs.
Brandon Russell, 29, encouraged Sarah Beth Clendaniel to carry out a series of “sniper attacks” on electrical substations around Baltimore that could have caused significant damage to the regional power grid, according to federal prosecutors. Their goal was to create chaos in the majority-Black city, prosecutors say.
The two were arrested in February 2023 — before the plans were executed.
The 12-person jury deliberated for less than an hour after hearing about four days of testimony in federal court in Baltimore. They found Russell guilty of one count of conspiracy to damage an energy facility, the only charge he faced.
Russell will be sentenced at a later date. He appeared in court wearing a light blue jacket and glasses. He conferred regularly with his attorney throughout the trial, looking cheerful and engaged.
Several years ago, Russell co-founded the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division, which is German for “atomic weapon.”
This wasn’t his first run-in with law enforcement. Russell previously pleaded guilty to possession of an unregistered destructive device and improper storage of explosive materials after investigators searched his home and found a stash of highly explosive materials and a cache of neo-Nazi signs, posters, books and flags.
During closing arguments Monday afternoon, prosecutor Joseph Baldwin recounted trial testimony, including from a confidential informant who got connected with Russell through the social media app Telegram. Russell introduced Clendaniel and the informant, hoping the person could help her obtain a firearm to use in the attack, according to prosecutors.
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles ... rid-attack