FBI foils New York woman's alleged ISIS attack plan on state capitol
The FBI says Jessica Bowie, 35, sought help building explosives for an ISIS plot on Albany's capitol. A confidential informant ended the recipe.
Summary
- The Washington Examiner reports the FBI stopped an alleged Islamic State-inspired plan to bomb the New York State Capitol in Albany.
- Jessica Bowie, 35, faces federal charges for attempting to provide material support to ISIS after a confidential informant said she asked for help making explosives.
- Northern District of New York AUSA John Sarcone said the arrest should chill anyone being radicalized and anyone whose government cheers death to America.
- A statehouse is a working building with linoleum, metal detectors, and school tours. A bomb recipe aimed there is not online theater.
Commentary
A clerk in Albany still walks those halls with a lanyard and a sack lunch. She should not have to share them with a woman shopping for explosives in the name of a death cult. Vinyl chairs in a capitol cafeteria are not a battlefield unless we let them be.
That is the gap. Soft-on-terror sermons treat radicalization like a mood. The informant treated it like a crime in progress. One kept a building standing.
Ask every parent who has walked a school group up those steps: if the recipe reaches a kitchen, what speech about 'root causes' still belongs in the briefing?
Comments
An informant and a charge beat a memorial plaque. Keep both.
I have seen 'inspired' become a pressure cooker. Interdict early.
Material support is the statute. Asking for a bomb recipe is the fact pattern. Charge it.
Capitals are targets because they are symbols. Treat them that way before the smoke.
Anyone calling this entrapment can produce the part where a capitol is a legitimate mark.
I clean those floors. I want the FBI in the group chat before the hardware store run.
School tours use those steps. That is the whole security argument.
ISIS does not need a caliphate square to want a dome. Stay ugly and awake.
Examiner printed Bowie, 35, informant, Albany. Do not turn it into a mental-health feature.
Fund the informant work. Prosecute the support charge. Harden the capitol doors.
