I'm still super into this thing. There's been quite a bit of smartphone video and LEO bodycams released over the last few weeks, which at least allows better conspiracy theorizing, but this report also came out today. I haven't read through it and I'll probably only watch a video summary of it later, but I'm happy to see the case isn't cold. It's fun to find new suspicious things.
Notable observations include:
  • U.S. Secret Service did not retrieve the radios that had been set aside for them by Butler County tactical command. The radio comms were properly and perfectly arranged during the extensive pre-mission planning.
  • All 8 casings (from shots fired by Crooks) were recovered and are allegedly in proper possession of the FBI.
  • The 9th shot fired on J13 was from a Butler SWAT operator from the ground about 100 yards away from the AGR building. Shot 9 hit Crooks’ rifle stock and fragged his face/neck/right shoulder area from the stock breaking up.
  • The 10th (and, I believe, final) shot was fired from the southern counter-sniper team.
  • My effort to examine Crooks’ body on Monday, August 5, caused quite a stir and revealed a disturbing fact… the FBI released the body for cremation 10 days after J13.
  • The water tower was cleared by drone J13 AM by the County tactical commander, ESU Commander Lenz himself.
Most of this is completely new. The fact that the 9th shot hit Crooks' rifle is the first we've heard of it, along with all the official investigation details.
There are still whole other aspects that have now been memory-holed.
  • White van?
  • Transmitter connected to explosives in van.....or car....or both?
  • Crooks was photographed with bike....so he had bike and car?
  • Ladder purchase at Home Depot? how did he get 10ft ladder from home depot to site? Bike? Car? Van?
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The failure to communicate with the Butler PD is suspicious to the point of absurdity. If that first bullet point is accurate, then the current SS director perjured himself before congress.
I'm still fascinated by this story, too. I pretty regularly check to see if Bongino has any updates.
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I haven't checked in on Bongino in a while. He was fair but a little too conservative with his analysis to keep me entertained. I find the right conspiracy balance for me is someone that's willing to speculate/extrapolate, but self-consciously, like a Bret Weinstein.
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Yeah, I like to get a baseline from Bongino and then add to it with others. Kim Iversen is one of my favorite speculators.
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Bongino is former Secret Service, he has insider knowledge that Weinstein lacks
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The both have things the other lacks :)
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I wonder how much more new information is going to show up. They cremated his body pretty quickly, didnt they?
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41 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 16 Aug
10 days seems like a long time to me, but the implication is that it's abnormal in a criminal case like this to do it so fast.
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Usually it is done to hide things. They can embalm them and keep them on ice for a long time.
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I still can't believe how close they were to killing him. How did they let him get on the one roof where it would be easy to kill him? This was more than incompetence.
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willful negligence
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