Investigators discovered more than 150 devices, mostly pipe bombs, on a property outside Norfolk, court papers say.

They found more pipe bombs in a bedroom inside Mr. Spafford’s house, loosely stuffed in a backpack that bore a patch shaped like a hand grenade and a logo reading “#NoLivesMatter,” prosecutors said.

No Lives Matter is a nihilistic, far-right ideology that largely exists on encrypted online messaging apps like Telegram

  • @foggy
    15•6 days ago

    My guess is legality of methods obtaining info.

    I can have “on good authority” that you’re doing XYZ, but that doesn’t mean I can go snooping in your private shit. I need probable cause.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•6 days ago

        Correct, but they still have to convince a judge to issue that secret warrant.

        The judge would require probable cause, which doesn’t have to be slam dunk evidence, but it does still have to be obtained legally.

        OP was saying that the FBI could easily wiretap, but in order to make the evidence legally permitted in court, they’d still need probable cause to get the secret warrant that would allow them to do the wiretap.

        It’s sort of a loop-hole-in-a-loop-hole with the courts.

        Usually the FBI just has to use the non-legal wiretap to point them to a good source of probable cause. Then they issue that to the judge, get their secret warrant, then make the non-legal wiretap legal.