{"id":6862,"date":"2011-12-15T15:04:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T20:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6862"},"modified":"2011-12-15T15:04:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T20:04:49","slug":"on_throwing_bombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/12\/on_throwing_bombs.html","title":{"rendered":"On Throwing Bombs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How scary are the terrorist plots that the vaunted NYPD counter-terrorism unit brings down? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/fbi-director-robert-mueller-told-g-men-stop-mocking-nypd-pipe-bomber-case-article-1.991825\">You decide<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>FBI Director Robert Mueller struggled to stop subordinates from criticizing the NYPD over its case against accused would-be pipe-bomber Jose Pimentel, he admitted Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The feds passed on the case twice, but the NYPD took down the Bronx radical as he worked to complete a pipe bomb in a police informant&#8217;s apartment on Nov. 20.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, federal officials ripped the case, telling reporters, who gave them anonymity so they could dish, that Pimentel was incapable of carrying out an attack.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How scary are the terrorist plots that the vaunted NYPD counter-terrorism unit brings down? You decide: FBI Director Robert Mueller struggled to stop subordinates from criticizing the NYPD over its case against accused would-be pipe-bomber Jose Pimentel, he admitted Wednesday. The feds passed on the case twice, but the NYPD took down the Bronx radical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insert_muted_trumpets_sad_wahwah_here"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6863,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6862\/revisions\/6863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}