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Kurt Peipel

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The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

It certainly is interesting. Let's say that. I don't know why someone would say that. In my experience, we usually didn't weigh in that early on stuff like that because you just don't know, right? The answer is we don't know what this was. When I grew up in the Bureau of the Default, it was like almost every bomb is a terrorist event until we were proven otherwise.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

So I think in that specific instance, I don't understand why it was said, But someone clearly thought that it wasn't an incident. And then when they pulled out the ISIS flag almost immediately, it was an issue, right? Like you had to come back and say, yes, it is, you know?

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

So I think in that specific instance, I don't understand why it was said, But someone clearly thought that it wasn't an incident. And then when they pulled out the ISIS flag almost immediately, it was an issue, right? Like you had to come back and say, yes, it is, you know?

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

So I think in that specific instance, I don't understand why it was said, But someone clearly thought that it wasn't an incident. And then when they pulled out the ISIS flag almost immediately, it was an issue, right? Like you had to come back and say, yes, it is, you know?

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

So, and I think now they're finding a social media and, you know, he posted videos, you know, an hour and a half up to 10 minutes before he committed the event. So where he's declaring himself for ISIS and all that. So I think clearly this in New Orleans, it clearly is a terrorist event.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

So, and I think now they're finding a social media and, you know, he posted videos, you know, an hour and a half up to 10 minutes before he committed the event. So where he's declaring himself for ISIS and all that. So I think clearly this in New Orleans, it clearly is a terrorist event.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

So, and I think now they're finding a social media and, you know, he posted videos, you know, an hour and a half up to 10 minutes before he committed the event. So where he's declaring himself for ISIS and all that. So I think clearly this in New Orleans, it clearly is a terrorist event.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

Is he not? I mentioned before, obviously, we've talked about the video posts. We've talked about, you know, they're going through all his social media. They're going to look at phones, you know, his contacts, not just domestically, but I mean, your world too. Your old world is, you know, overseas. Did he have overseas contacts? You know, they're going to try to go through...

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

Is he not? I mentioned before, obviously, we've talked about the video posts. We've talked about, you know, they're going through all his social media. They're going to look at phones, you know, his contacts, not just domestically, but I mean, your world too. Your old world is, you know, overseas. Did he have overseas contacts? You know, they're going to try to go through...

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

Is he not? I mentioned before, obviously, we've talked about the video posts. We've talked about, you know, they're going through all his social media. They're going to look at phones, you know, his contacts, not just domestically, but I mean, your world too. Your old world is, you know, overseas. Did he have overseas contacts? You know, they're going to try to go through...

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

really scour everything that this individual financial, everything that this person has done their whole entire life. They're going to try to go through every bit of it to see who he is at contact with, where does those line up with other things. They're going to talk to people. It's a big human intelligence endeavor now.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

really scour everything that this individual financial, everything that this person has done their whole entire life. They're going to try to go through every bit of it to see who he is at contact with, where does those line up with other things. They're going to talk to people. It's a big human intelligence endeavor now.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

really scour everything that this individual financial, everything that this person has done their whole entire life. They're going to try to go through every bit of it to see who he is at contact with, where does those line up with other things. They're going to talk to people. It's a big human intelligence endeavor now.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

They're probably talking to a ton of individuals, witnesses, like I mentioned before. That is going to be a big lift right now to try to figure out if there were co-conspirators. And I will tell you that obviously they've come out and said they think that this person acted alone. So, they went through it pretty quickly to determine that he wasn't or he didn't have other people involved.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

They're probably talking to a ton of individuals, witnesses, like I mentioned before. That is going to be a big lift right now to try to figure out if there were co-conspirators. And I will tell you that obviously they've come out and said they think that this person acted alone. So, they went through it pretty quickly to determine that he wasn't or he didn't have other people involved.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

They're probably talking to a ton of individuals, witnesses, like I mentioned before. That is going to be a big lift right now to try to figure out if there were co-conspirators. And I will tell you that obviously they've come out and said they think that this person acted alone. So, they went through it pretty quickly to determine that he wasn't or he didn't have other people involved.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

I haven't seen this site, but I suspect that they will be doing a hot wash, at least I hope they would, to figure out if there is some exchange. What I imagine with this area is that if they put in more secure concrete,

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

I haven't seen this site, but I suspect that they will be doing a hot wash, at least I hope they would, to figure out if there is some exchange. What I imagine with this area is that if they put in more secure concrete,

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

I haven't seen this site, but I suspect that they will be doing a hot wash, at least I hope they would, to figure out if there is some exchange. What I imagine with this area is that if they put in more secure concrete,

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | January 4th, 2025: Terrorism Hits Home & Beijing’s Strategy for 2025

Ballards or something like that, that emergency vehicles probably couldn't get down the road until they maybe have a conflict internally of like, hey, we have to have emergency vehicles get in, but you know, where the police cars could move quickly, those ballards probably, the electric ones drop. And so, if they had an emergency, they can get in there.