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But then his wife came across the package and his wife opened it in their home. and that is when the bomb detonated and his wife was injured by the bomb. the woman s husband, the man who apparently made the bomb, was named walter moody. he was arrested in that case in 1972. he was ultimately convicted of possessing explosives, and on the basis of that conviction, he did three years in federal prison. mr. moody then apparently became absolutely obsessed with what he believed to be the injustice of that conviction. after he did his three years in the federal penitentiary, he got out and concocted a whole elaborate scheme, wherein he thought he figured out a way that he would trick police and prosecutors into reopening his case, because he was going to blame that bombing that injured ....
He remembered the bomb, he remembered the case it came from and he remembered the guy s name who had made it and had gone to prison for it. that s how they got him. they catch these guys. that s how they do it. we re good at this as a country. today, police and federal authorities are in the possession of five unexploded bombs that were sent to 88-year-old activist, philanthropist, investor george soros. and former president barack obama, and former attorney general eric holder. we know another was sent to the home of billary excuse me, bill and hillary clinton in new york, specifically addressed to former secretary of state hillary clinton. another bomb addressed to john brennan, care of cnn, where he does not work, but the cnn offices in new york city were evacuated in dramatic fashion. ....
They might change a little bit, but will use a lot of the same tools in the same way of putting a basic pipe bomb together. so i should say we have a full team in birmingham that worked on the rudolph case, and all of the prosecutors on that team, myself included, we relied heavily on the expertise of the agents who were so good at understanding bomb components and using that knowledge to help identify the bomber. when it came to that eric rudolph case, was there any important lead in that case? any important specific information that was derived specifically from the forensics of the bomb, sort of being able to have access to the materials he used to put together those bombs? rudolph was a very different case. it didn t involve a mail bomb, rather rudolph planted physically and personally planted a bomb outside of the all-women abortion clinic in january of 1998 in birmingham. so he was actually seen by an eyewitness who observed him ....
Other packages. so the list of people we re talking about is the greatest list hits of people who the president has been targeting by name and with specific invective over the last year or so in terms of his political appearances and particularly his rallies. how does that factor in when it comes to pursuing this as a law enforcement matter? i was struck by the fact that in the walter moody case, there seemed to be a lot of strong evidence about the motive, but in the end, it all felt very much like a gray area and it doesn t seem like it was crucial to nailing down that case and getting him arrested. you know, that s right. motive is never an element of proof that prosecutors are responsible for in a federal case. motive can help you understand what happened and who did it. but it s not critical that you assess the motive. so agents and it s still early hours in this investigation, the agents won t be quick to rule any possibility out. they ll acquire all of the ....
Been following this case for so many decades, they essentially settled on the motive issue just not being clear. maybe race was a red herring like the fbi concluded. maybe race was the prime motivator, like it looks like on the surface. maybe it was a mixture. when moody s effort to get his old conviction was rejected, there s been indication that he was mad at civil rights cases, because civil rights cases were getting prosecuted years after those crimes had taken place, because civil rights cases weren t bound by the same statutes of limitations that resulted, he believed, in him not getting his court case overturned, which is what he wanted from the courts. so maybe that was his grudge on civil rights, which is about race, but it s not just being a racist murderer. is that it? ultimately, who knows? ultimately, is that the most important thing about the story, right? ....