Andrew Sage

The men were not part of an official terror cell, though the Prime Minister says that they were motivated by Islamic State extremist ideology.

Counterterrorism officials believe the shooters received quote-unquote military-style training in the Philippines a month before the attack.

On Tuesday, self-styled online investigators and right-wing social media content mills falsely identified the Brown University shooter as an LGBTQ Palestinian studying at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, citing gait analysis based on surveillance footage of the unidentified suspect released by police.

The university removed this queer Palestinian student's online profile in an effort to prevent doxing, though this itself was used by the online smear campaign as evidence of guilt.

Brown University later published this statement, quote, "...in the aftermath of the shooting, we've seen a harmful doxing activity directed towards at least one member of the Brown University community."

It's important to make clear that targeting individuals could do irrevocable harm.

Accusations, speculation, and conspiracies we're seeing on social media and in some news reports are irresponsible, harmful, and in some cases, dangerous for the safety of individuals in our community.

It is not unusual as a safety measure to take steps to protect an individual's safety when this kind of activity happens, including in regard to their online presence.

As law enforcement officials stated clearly on Tuesday afternoon, if this individual's name had any relevance to the current investigation, they would be actively looking for this individual and providing information publicly, unquote.

On a final note, after the holiday break, we will be reporting on the indictment against four alleged members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front in California regarding a New Year's Eve bombing plot.

We're back, and we have some news that's going to be really sad for everybody here, and it could happen here, and just all of you listening, which is friend of the pod Dan Bongino is stepping down from his work as deputy director of the FBI.

I think it's been a nice vacation for him, but, you know, America needs him in his much more important role, whatever podcast he was doing before he got brought in to be deputy director of the FBI.

You know, look, if he was podcasting right now, they would have caught the mass shooter at Brown.

I think we can all agree on that.

Yeah, he'd have podcasted his way through it.

Either that or just him not being at the FBI would have made the FBI do their jobs better.

What we're learning from this is that you can never escape the podcasting mind.

No matter where else you try to go, they will drag you back down.

Oh, look, if you make me director of the FBI, I promise to stop podcasting and start being the most corrupt director of the FBI we've ever had.

That's a tough challenge.