The former assistant director for counterintelligence for the FBI said Sunday that authorities will “very quickly” be able to determine the Nashville explosion on Christmas Day was the work of a suicide bomber.
In an interview on CBS News’ “Face The Nation,” Frank Figliuzzi said he believes the human tissue discovered in a demolished van near the AT&T building in the Tennessee city belonged to Anthony Quinn Warner, who on Saturday was revealed as a “person of interest” in the investigation.
“I do believe that we'll fairly quickly see Warner turn from person of interest to the subject of the investigation,” he said, citing his own sources. “And I think right now we're all waiting for DNA results of that tissue that we all heard has been found in and around the scene.”
“I think it is quite likely that this was a suicide mission for this individual … [with] some personal connection to that {AT&T] building, to Christmas Day, or to some other thing that caused him to act out.”
Figliuzzi said a major concern for law enforcement agent is the occurrence of copycat incidents, lamenting the “incredibly politically charged environment” that could serve as a catalyst.
“The notion of a copycat seeing what has happened in Nashville and trying to do this themselves is very real and we should be concerned,” he said.
“There is tremendous dangerous polarization and it is being fueled by social media conspiracy theorists out there,” he said. “There are individuals who think that 5G technology may be the cause of COVID and that technology is generally targeting us,” he added.
“That's why we need to speak the truth about what 5G is, where COVID came from, and all of this. But all of that increases the possibility of a copycat operator, and we've got to be extremely vigilant as we move into the next couple of weeks, where we're going to see the nation increasingly polarized about election results and an inauguration,” he warned.
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