So they found his remains in the aftermath, and bit suss too that he gifted away two properties; but hopefully they have more evidence than that to confirm that he was the bomber and not dead or bound in the vehicle before it went off.
Not that I don't trust the FBI and other US agencies, but if they announced today is Tuesday I would check with my calendar.
^ FWIW, Warner had previously been licensed to work with explosives. Not that I trust the FBI and other US agencies, but I don't see anything particularly suspicious in the official narrative.
There are, of course, things they're not telling us yet.
Anyway, here are some more videos of shit exploding....
Girlfriend warned Nashville police Anthony Warner was building bomb a year ago, report shows
NASHVILLE — Sixteen months before Anthony Quinn Warner's RV exploded in downtown Nashville on Christmas morning, officers visited his home in Antioch after his girlfriend reported that he was making bombs in the vehicle, according to documents obtained by The Tennessean.
On Friday, 63-year-old Warner blew up a city block, police say, about 6:30 a.m. on Second Avenue outside an AT&T switch facility. The bomb caused massive destruction to 41 downtown buildings and crippled telecommunication systems throughout the Southeast over the weekend.
In the aftermath, The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said Warner was "not on our radar" prior to the bombing. But a Metro Nashville Police Department report from August 2019 shows that local and federal authorities were aware of alleged threats he had made.
No actions appear to have been taken to stop Warner, a slender 5-foot-8, 135-pound man who died in the explosion, which injured three others.
On Aug. 21, 2019, the girlfriend told Nashville police that Warner "was building bombs in the RV trailer at his residence," the MNPD report states. Nashville police then forwarded the information to the FBI.
Officers were called to the home of Warner's girlfriend, roughly a mile and a half from Warner, who lived at 115 Bakertown Road.
Police were called by the woman's attorney, Raymond Throckmorton III, who was concerned about comments she had made. When they arrived, they found her sitting on the porch with two unloaded guns nearby.
"She related that the guns belonged to a 'Tony Warner' and that she did not want them in the house any longer," MNPD spokesman Don Aaron said in a statement to The Tennessean.
While at the house, the woman told police about the bomb comments Warner had made.
Throckmorton, who served as the woman's attorney, told officers Warner "frequently talks about the military and bomb making," the document said.
Warner "knows what he is doing and is capable of making a bomb," the attorney said to the officers, according to the report.
In an interview Tuesday night, Throckmorton told The Tennessean he urged police at the time to look into the woman's claim. He said she feared for her safety, believing Warner may harm her.
Police then went to Warner's home, but he didn't answer the door after they knocked several times.
Officers saw his RV behind the house, but the vehicle was fenced off and police were unable to see inside of it, the report said. While there, police noted that there were "several security cameras and wires attached to a alarm sign on the front door."
The officers notified supervisors and detectives about the incident.
"They saw no evidence of a crime and had no authority to enter his home or fenced property," Aaron said of officers' unsuccessful attempt to make contact with Warner or look inside the RV.
The department's hazardous devices unit was given a copy of the report.
The next day, Nashville police sent the report and identifying information about Warner to the FBI to check their databases, Aaron said in a statement to The Tennessean.
Later that day, Aaron said, "the FBI reported back that they checked their holdings and found no records on Warner at all."
Darrell DeBusk, a spokesperson for the FBI, told The Tennessean Tuesday night the inquiry was a standard agency-to-agency record check.
Then on Aug. 28, 2019, the Department of Defense reported back that "checks on Warner were all negative," Aaron said.
During the week of August 26, 2019, police called Throckmorton, who declined to allow police to interview Warner or go on Warner's property, the FBI told The Tennessean.
In a statement Tuesday night from Aaron, he said officers recalled Throckmorton saying Warner “did not care for the police,” and that Throckmorton would not allow Warner to give consent to officers to conduct a visual inspection of the RV.
Throckmorton told The Tennessean while he represented Warner in a civil matter several years ago, Warner was no longer a client of his in August 2019. He disputes that he told police they couldn't search the RV.
"I have no memory of that whatsoever," Throckmorton said of MNPD's claim that said they could not inspect the RV. "I didn’t represent him anymore. He wasn’t an active client. I'm not a criminal defense attorney."
He believes law enforcement could have done more to prevent the bombing.
"Somebody, somewhere dropped the ball," Throckmorton said.
Aaron said police at the time had no proof of wrongdoing by Warner.
"At no time was there any evidence of a crime detected and no additional action was taken," he said. "No additional information about Warner came to the department’s or the FBI’s attention after August 2019."
Aaron reported that the ATF also had no information on Warner.
Warner's only prior arrest occurred more than 40 years earlier, in January 1978, for marijuana possession.
https://www.tennessean.com/story/new...19/4082253001/
Shame he wasn't black, they could have shot him.
Is this not the same woman he gave two houses to, then?
It seems to me that Warner built the biggest bomb that he could easily transport in an attempt to destroy an AT&T building. The building was a telephone exchange, and these are designed to be largely bombproof. The attack might simply have been an attack on the United States telecommunications infrastructure. Warner probably intended to do a great deal more damage to the building, and to nationwide communications, than he was actually able to achieve; he had reportedly made recent comments to a neighbor to the effect that all of America was soon going to hate him (the neighbor thought that perhaps Warner meant that he had won some money).
I expect that the official narrative will portray the attack as an attempt to disrupt communications, which is a standard objective in a war.
The AT&T building will have had vacant floors at some point, since modern exchange equipment takes up a lot less physical space than was once the case. These floors may have been rented to surveillance agencies - there are known precedents for this in New York and in San Francisco. It doesn't much matter whether this was actually the case in Nashville or not, though it would be interesting to know whether Warner believed it to be the case. However, the whole matter of government monitoring of domestic communications is one which the investigating agencies would probably rather not discuss openly.
If Warner turns out to have been a right wing nutter, there are those on the left who will proclaim that this proves something about the right, and if he turns out to have been a left wing nutter, there are those on the right who will proclaim that this proves something about the left. Perhaps the last act of Tony Warner says more about the effects of solitude in the latter years of a human life than it does about anything else.
^ Nice analysis.
Feds probing whether Nashville bomber believed in lizard people conspiracy
Feds probing whether Nashville bomber believed in lizard people conspiracy
There does seem to be some reluctance to do so, just as there's a reluctance to describe this as terrorism without ascribing it to a specific ideology. However, some media outlets didn't get the memo:
Bomber in Nashville Christmas explosion was 'loner,' IT consultant, sources sayThe FBI tamped down expectations Monday that a motive would be determined as quickly as they were able to determine the identity of the apparent suicide bomber.
How Nashville suicide bomber Anthony Warner was sued by his own mom in property dispute | Daily Mail Online
Nashville Suicide Bomber Anthony Quinn Warner’s Cop-Hating ‘Hippie’ Past
Why Is There Any Hesitation To Call Anthony Quinn Warner A Suicide Bomber?
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