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2022-08-13 -Land of the Free
'Gunman killed after attacking Ohio FBI office served in NUCLEAR SUBMARINE with top-level security clearance: Bureau was alerted to him earlier this year
[MAIL] The man who was killed in a police shootout after attacking an FBI field office in Ohio was a Navy veteran who once had top-secret clearance, and had been under FBI investigation for months, according to new reports.

Ricky Walter Shiffer Jr, 42, died on Thursday after trying to breach the field office in Cincinnati with a nail gun and brandishing an AR-15-style rifle when police pursued and cornered him.

Shiffer's posts on Donald Trump's Truth Social platform suggest that he undertook the doomed attack in revenge for the FBI's raid and search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence earlier this week.

Shiffer had been an enlisted sailor who served aboard the USS Columbia attack submarine - a job that requires top-secret clearance - and also served as an infantryman in the Florida National Guard, the Wall Street Journal reported.

As well, the FBI confirmed that it had been investigating Shiffer for months in connection with the US Capitol riot and another matter, but the Bureau said that it was not aware of a 'specific and credible threat'.
Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-13 07:44|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 Attacked an FBI office with a nailgun. I realize the Navy has been going down hill smarts-wise for a few years, but JEEZ!
Posted by Mercutio 2022-08-13 09:19||   2022-08-13 09:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Easier to get access to .22 nailgun charges than .223 ammo? I would bet the AR-15-style rifle wasn't real.
Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-13 09:32||   2022-08-13 09:32|| Front Page Top

#3 And its Daily Mail. Yeah, pass the salt.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-08-13 10:43||   2022-08-13 10:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Mad magazine used to run this special four-connections-between thingy where they'd establish a link between two totally unrelated things. Like say between Trudeau and Idi Amin.





Trudeau likes to play dress up, is probably a fairy, and a bastard of...Castro! ➡️ Who was a die hard communist and revolutionary, before he got fat and started smoking... cigars. ➡️ Which are bad for your health, as bad as they were for Clinton's presidency. ➡️ Which to some is a great calling, but some see it as licence for... cannibalism! ➡️ As did the erstwhile Ugandan president and necrophilic playboy, Idi Amin!

This stretchy connection between nuclear subs and nuclear codes and Trump seems a lot reminiscent of that ridiculous thing.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-08-13 11:43||   2022-08-13 11:43|| Front Page Top

#5 

Something about the nose. Maybe if Justin grew beard...
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-08-13 12:52||   2022-08-13 12:52|| Front Page Top

#6 the Bureau said that it was not aware of a 'specific and credible threat'

They never are. Maybe the spend too much time persecuting opposition party members.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-08-13 12:54||   2022-08-13 12:54|| Front Page Top

#7 No video of the attack. Prob never will be.
Every day I read consenters here write “why doesn’t someone do something?!” Now a guy does and you rip him as a fool and believe the FBI story.
Posted by Xyz 2022-08-13 21:54||   2022-08-13 21:54|| Front Page Top

#8 More details from the Times of Israel:

Shiffer worked as an electrician, according to one of his social media profiles. He was a registered Republican who voted in the 2020 primary from Columbus, Ohio, and in the 2020 general election from Tulsa, Oklahoma, according to public records.


An aerial view of former US president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate is pictured, Wednesday, August 10, 2022, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Court records show the Ohio Department of Taxation filed suit against him in June, seeking a $553 tax lien judgment, according to court records listing him at an address in St. Petersburg, Florida. He also previously lived at several addresses in Columbus and in Omaha, Nebraska.

He graduated from high school in central Pennsylvania in 1998 and enlisted in the Navy that same year, later serving on the USS Columbia submarine until 2003, according to military records. He was an infantry soldier in the Florida Army National Guard from 2008 to 2011, when he was honorably discharged.

“I know he was way into World War II and the military,” said Lori Frady, a classmate at West Perry High School in Elliottsburg, who had not seen Shiffer since graduation. “He didn’t have a lot of friends, but the friends he did have were big into history and military history.”
Posted by trailing wife 2022-08-13 23:36||   2022-08-13 23:36|| Front Page Top

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