Second thought? Third thought? No thinking at all?
Yesterday morning, FBI spokesperson Alethea Duncan directly contradicted both the mayor of New Orleans and the chief of police in declaring that the mass-murder attack by truck wasn’t a terrorist act. By the afternoon, the same agent declared that not only was it a terror attack, but that Shamsud-din Jabbar had several accomplices who helped place two explosives in the area.
Now, the FBI has decided that Jabbar acted on his own, after paying closer attention to the videos that prompted the earlier conclusion:
Authorities no longer believe there are any other suspects involved in the New Year’s truck attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans that killed 14 people and injured 35 others, the FBI said Thursday.
After investigators reviewed all of the surveillance videos more closely, it appears that the suspect –…