McCabe on WHCD Suspect: ‘It’s Fascinating to Me that a Guy with a Pretty Accomplished Tech Background … Made No Effort Whatsoever to Cover His Tracks’

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McCABE: “It‘s fascinating to me that a guy with a pretty accomplished tech background, right, he‘s a Caltech graduate, he‘s a Masters in engineering, he‘s a computer programmer, he programs computer games, he seemed to have made no effort whatsoever to cover his tracks. He left an extensive record, certainly in the social media posts that you referred to earlier, all of which will be helpful to the prosecution in their effort to prove his intent to try to assassinate the president. He wrote an extensive letter or manifesto or whatever you want to call it, and sent it to many people, some of whom handed it directly to law enforcement, in which he basically confessed to the crime ahead of time, explained why he was doing it, who he was targeting, in what order. So it‘s really a very extensive record. Now they have his phone to help them to kind of uncover anything else that might be of interest. So the evidence for the case for the prosecution is already quite strong. What investigators are looking for now is additional intelligence that can tell us a little bit more about why this young man went in the direction that he did. And that‘s an important question for our intelligence and law enforcement folks to understand."