The Dept of Justice and FBI held a press conference today outlining a foiled plot to build and detonate bombs in Southern California on New Years Eve. WATCH:
WASHINGTON, Dec 15 (Reuters) – Four people are facing criminal charges in connection with what Attorney General Pam Bondi described on Monday as a foiled bomb plot that contemplated multiple targets, including U.S. immigration agents and their vehicles.
The four individuals have been charged with conspiracy and possession of an unregistered destructive device, according to the complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
“The Turtle Island Liberation Front — a far-left, pro-Palestine, anti-government, and anti-capitalist group — was preparing to conduct a series of bombings against multiple targets in California beginning on New Year’s Eve. The group also planned to target ICE agents and vehicles,” Bondi said in a statement.
The bombing plot called for planting explosive devices at five locations targeting two U.S. companies at midnight on New Year’s Eve in the Los Angeles area, the complaint said.
The four defendants named in the complaint are Audrey Illeene Carroll, 30, Zachary Aaron Page, 32, Dante Gaffield, 24, and 41-year-old Tina Lai.
According to a sworn statement in support of the complaint, Carroll in November presented an eight-page handwritten document to a paid confidential source titled “Operation Midnight Sun” which described a bomb plot.
Carroll and Page later allegedly recruited the other two defendants to help carry out the plan, which included them “acquiring bomb-making materials and traveling to a remote location in the Mojave Desert to construct and detonate test explosive devices on December 12, 2025,” the sworn statement alleges.
FBI agents intervened before they could complete their work to assemble a functional explosive device.
The “Turtle Island Liberation Front – LA Chapter” is described on its social media page as being devoted to “Liberation through decolonization and tribal sovereignty,” according to the complaint, which alleges the group is “an anti-capitalist, anti-government movement.” (read more)
Their claim on J6 bomber Cole is a patsy. This is a inside job to promote they know what they are doing ruse.
if the fblie issued a statement the sky is blue
i’d have to walk outside to verify
FBLie achieved the high watermark of negative credibility.
Literally everything they say is a known dishonest diversion to protect the uniparty. Worse than worthless.
Yup. Right up there with CNN, et al.
Fully, 100% agree. Trump still doesn’t run that agency.
The FBI for the past 40 years has been corrupted/controlled/manipulated into the nasty thing it now is.
You can’t clean a pool that a few drunk HS kids vomited and pooped and pissed in… at least not in one day.
I personally think and hope the current Trump Crew realize the septic beast they face and are daily, methodically, working to clean it up.
The Comey thing is a first launch. I hope that Wray, Brennan, Clapper, Nuland, and few other less well knowns but equally nasty parts of the mess are being targeted.
It’s got to be an amazing transformational event after the Federal Govt DOJ calls you to testify.
did he give up….?? I hope not…
they trot one of these out every time they are shown to be abject failures on something else.
i wonder how many agents they had embedded with this crew trying to entrap them into something they might not have done otherwise.
I wish I could give credit here for supposedly doing their jobs. There have been too many false flag ops from the FBI to realistically think their claims on this one are without falsehood. Now if we can only get Blondie Bondi going after her target rich perpetrator environment without all her false flag ops!
They had at least 4 on the inside!!!
Another Michigan Kidnap the Governor hoax? The FBI infomant just happened to be handed an 8 page copy of the plan…
A: He helped write or
B: He paid $50,000 for
“Carroll in November presented an eight-page handwritten document to a paid confidential source titled “Operation Midnight Sun” which described a bomb plot.”
Yes, this reeks of being another FBI entrapment operation. The only questionable aspect is that this operation targeted seemingly radical Marxist extremists (Democrats), rather than any of the evil roving bands of “right wing terrorists” that they are constantly attempting to scare us with.
I think you are actually thinking about this. For all those who believe EVERYTHING that comes out of the FBI is lies, the fact that these are leftist antifa types kinda might maybe it’s possible make it true. Now some would claim that the insider deep state did this to protect their jobs with a cover because we all know the left will set other lefties on fire to protect themselves, but……
Did anyone notice it was all presented locally by some with leftist leanings?
The vote of no confidence that is going to play out in the comment section is a very bad thing.
Not that the FBI’S lack of credibility is not well deserved or the commentators are the slightest bit wrong in their negative comments.
The FBI hasn’t given the slightest inkling that they have any credibility left.
Only the most gullible among us would believe any thing they have to say.
Unfortunately ,I am sad to say, there are going to be some innocent American Citizens who are going to pay dearly for the,
corruption of the entire FBI sooner than later.
How can a person, working, in the FBI , seeing the rot up close and personal , still work there?
If you associate with a gang of thieves sooner or later you will become one of them.
This statement applies especially to law enforcement organizations. .
They recruit from Ivy League Indoctrination Centers (formerly known as Universities or places of higher learning) and the recruits are willing participants.
There may, may, be a few good ones there, but if so, they are more concerned with their pensions than doing the right thing.
Totally agree!
The three P’s.
Paycheck…..Promotion…..Pension.
EM Burlingame recently made that statement –
and I totally agree!
EXACTLY! When I worked for the LAPD (Civilian), that was ALL everyone was concerned about…and I mean EVERYONE.
What if your pension doesn’t kick in until after 20 years of service ?
Fire everyone hired in the past 15 years and much of the vomit in the pool is gone.
Of course, if you would SHARE some stories under oath about the bad asses and their commands to you, we might reconsider your employment status. AND give you a new identity in some far away small town.
“How can a person, working, in the FBI , seeing the rot up close and personal , still work there?”
I often wonder the same.
I think its the power of the pension. If so, Trump should make is so that you get a pension based on whatever amount of years you served so that a ‘good’ employee can’t be subjected to loss of the pension before (20) years.
Granted, there should be no pensions for government employees…..
Maybe there should be a “pension make-up” for those valid whistle-blowers that provide crucial information that did get them fired? Your pension is a very real consideration when confronting anything evil or wrong!
“How can a person seeing the rot up close and personal, still (stay) work there?” Just like church members see it within their sect and still continue to be devoted members? Think about it.
It is odd; I have long felt that the proximity which all manner of authority & enforcement personnel, from policemen to lawyers and judges, must have with the so-called “criminal element” could possibly sooner or later be a corrupting influence. Thus, it would seem best to avoid the entire legal “system” when possible.
yeah, all the antifites i know are into heavy formal documentation of their activities….
In triplicate so everyone gets a copy.
Hopefully the FBLie included a teeny little information overlooked by the (co-conspirators) that when followed, causes their practice bombs to blow up prematurely and eliminates successfully another bomb plot by the FBLIES with no evidence left to analyze.
Operation Midnight Sun. lol
Right up there with Crossfire Hurricane and Arctic Frost.
Dare I say that even a broken clock is right twice a day or nah? Too soon?
its also wrong all the other minutes of the day.
Yes, but a badly set clock is never right.
more of Christopher Wray’s ‘right wing white nationalist terrorist threats’ (sarc)
Those who don’t share traditional American values are not safe for society. Increasingly they feel they can act out. Doesn’t seem to matter if it’s about culture, religion, ethnicity, green economy, capitalism, governmental control, but they are left and against letting people have peaceful lifes.
What terrorist worth their salt would document anything?
a terrorist who needs to be on the news nonstop for a couple days to be sure you are afraid enough to hand your government more power.
Right? Because four people can’t keep it straight without an 8 page detailed written plan?
Inevitable “Furry” connection in 3…2…1…
Check their acronym, not furries, TILF’s. Don’t search it on your work computer though.
Hit it on the head, just saw where their leader is a tranny. Damn I’m good.
More love from the party of everything wrong….
Sounds like they tripped over this…
Interesting times…..
Take the victory, a leftist organization regardless of whether they’re actively plotting to mow your lawn or participate in terror activity is an absolute menace to a free society. They’re not compatible with our founding, our principles and any form of life based in liberty and God given Rights. So taking this group down by every measure is a good thing. Destroying leftists and their networks big and small is welcome news.
It’s not a victory if it’s a lie.
especially if its a lie designed to divert your attention away from failures, or to encourage you to give them more power.
Exactly.
Hmmm…I just sorta wonder: Might the Turtle Island Liberation Front have been ‘discovered’ by the same folks who discovered the Patriot Front…?
The FBI is asking us to believe that, for the first time EVER, they foiled a terrorist plot before anyone died.
Sorry Fibbies. I stopped believing in fairy tales a long time ago.
“We will find you, infiltrate you, and arrest you” – Unless, of course, you’re a member of congress or Senate.
Or the democratic party apparatuses/members.
Sorry, FBI still has not earned any credibility. None of the criminal gov’t officials of the last ten years are in prison.
I trust nothing from that clown show uniparty protection racket.
but…But….BUT! “All 38,000 FBI employees are so focused on catching the radical Hole In The Wall Gang from Turtle Island that we had no time for our Keystone Cops to be able to investigate anything else.”
If Blondie Bondie and Country Music Kash are the first line of defence for threats like this, they are definitely in over their heads. Concerning indeed.
Communists, in other words. Why won’t Bondi say it?
It’s hard to believe they would be capable of foiling such a plot. I don’t believe anything they say. It’s frightening Oresident Trump has to rely on any of them.
Far-left or far-Islam ?
(Or simply Islam?)
The only thing that could top this press conference is for Bondi, Patel and Bongino to appear together on the Hannitus Interuptus show tonight to celebrate their cool detective work.
Shakespeare was right:
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.”
Now we know who was on those Egyptian planes? Thanks Candace.
Did the FBI start a fire so that they could heroically rush in to put it out?
Has I gotten that cynical?
I believe nothing coming from the FBLIE. They are the DeepState Praetorian Guard. FBLIE DELENDA EST!
I wonder who the two companies are (if any of this is true). I guess if the perps are far left it doesn’t matter. It’s just more anti-capitalism, not necessarily targeting a particular company.
L.A. County is at its lowest number of Law Enforcement people as far back as I know of. Anything big done in L.A. is going to be catastrophic for the people of L.A. (if things aren’t bad enough already). Sigh…
A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, L.A. was a really cool place.
A convict told me long ago, “Go to LA on vacation, leave on probation”. Once upon a time LAPD/LASO had no nonsense reputations.
Meanwhile, the DOJ can’t even make a case against Comey. Who in heck do Bondi/Patel/Bongino think they are fooling with this nonsense?
This reminds me of the brief scene in “Zero Dark Thirty” where the uber-annoying CIA agent played by Jessica Chastain craps on her boss because he’d rather capture some “Ayatollah Crackadollah” to pad his resume than work for Osama bin Laden’s capture.
“Yeah, real criminals go scot-free in Bondi’s America, but by golly she and the gang that couldn’t shoot straight captured a rag-tag bunch of blue-haired weirdos with tattoos on their faces and rings through their noses*.
(*I haven’t seen any pics of the “plotters” but if I had to guess…)
(Edited to correct a typo.)
Frankly Margret, I don’t give a damn.
they knew it was really serious when they found a full case of kitchen clock one hour timers
and the perps were all trhaany autistics with no online presence whatsoever.
…and a set of 4 Energizer “D” cell batteries which have energetic capability!
materials which have the capacity to combust when exposed to heat or friction!!!
I have a woodshed full of that kind of “dangerous” material.
I hve a matchbox full of such material.
According to the bulk of comments Kash Patel is now your enemy too? Sounds like cynicism is alive and well. If you think that the decades of corruption built into the DC machine via both parties is going to get solved in 1 year, let alone one Administration then I’ve got a Joe Biden Autopen to sell you. But constant complaining and shooting down everything is certainly not a successful endeavor.
For the skeptics. It is possible however unlikely, that this operation investigated by multiple agencies, is true. Where is the hopium that someday we actually get a reformed FBI? Is there no optimism left at all here? Until some evidence shows otherwise, I will accept what they say with skepticism, for now.
Grandpappy used to say, crap in one hand and wish in the other. See which one fills up first. When it comes to any 3 letter agency I’ll stick with Grandpappy.
Agree, healthy skepticism is always warranted but unhealthy skepticism leads to cynicism. What’s wrong with the old sales team adage “Two pats on the back and a kick in ass”. It’s “Good job Kash, well done, now show me the next bad guys and corruption you’ll uncover and arrest”.
If Kash Patel had just had the foresight to have changed his name from Kash Patel to Kash Putin, he’d be a whole lot more popular here.
If Kash Patel had just had the foresight to have changed his name from Kash Patel to Kash Putin, he’d be a whole lot more popular here.
And if a frog had wings he wouldn’t bump his @$$ on the ground when he hopped.
What does Kash Putin have to do with this?
Why don’t we change your last name to Putin so you can become popular here instead of being looked upon as a disruptive pest?
0.o
Its no one has been arrested time, once again….You know, like, the stolen election, the long, long list of crimes, by politicians and dirty cops….
For so many crimes, within the Government and Law enforcement, we could literally sit here for an hour, listing all the people who should be arrested, indicted, and jailed.
Please stop pretending not to know things….
Because that is precisely what you are doing.
If it hasnt occured to you, the Fibbers, always trot out nonsense like this, when they are under fire for their lack of actual arrests, of people who really, really, deserve it. And you darn well know who they all are, if you are a regular reader here. There is no need to list the hundreds of conspirators. We know who they are.
Not one smidgeon of accountability so far. And no reason to think there will be.
Cynicism is most certainly alive, and thriving. As it should be.
We have been given no reasons whatsoever to trust a single word out of the fibbies. As an organization they have stood steadfast with the enemies of America, and lied extensively to convict patriots.
As to Kash Patel, he’s been on the job for just about a year. So far, the management bureaucracy has pulled Patel’s underwear over his empty head while laughing and pointing at him. He has been staggeringly ineffective at clearing out the enemies who run the fibbies, and continues to stumble into traps and blunders set for him.
If you think Year 2 will be any different than the year just closing, with the bumbling Patel and utterly worthless Barbi Bondi continuing their Reign of Ineffectiveness, could I interest you in some Venezuelan chinchilla futures?
So, you’re not happy with Patel? sarc
Frankly, he has turned out to be a bad manager. Maybe his strength is more in the investigative area where he doesn’t have to give pressers. I think this LA bomb plot was presented by locals for that reason. Somebody got him to understand it’s not about him so the local “doers” presented this one.
I agree, although some of the comments made me laugh.
So, if you build a “destructive device,” you are required to register it with the ATF? Who knew? Does one use the ATF Form 4 for that, or ATF Form 5320.4 … or is there a special form, specifically for “destructive devices?”
If these folks had registered their “destructive device(s)” would they still have been arrested?
BTW, does one have to pay the $200 tax on “destructive devices,” as with suppressors? Or, is the amount different for “destructive devices?” Does one get a volume discount if they register “multiple destructive devices” at once?
I’m sorry, but how many more ridiculous laws must there be on the books?!?!?! We have far too many AOC’s, Jasmine Crocketts and Hank Johnson’s in Congress, when what we sorely need are John Adams’, James Madison’s and Thomas Jefferson’s!!!
There was a time when government service attracted the best and the brightest among us. Now, it only seems to attract the ignorant and the tyrannical. : (
BTW – Did the January 5th pipe bomber register his “destructive devices” with the ATF? I didn’t notice “possession of an unregistered destructive device” being among the charges that he is facing. He is said to have begun building his “destructive devices” more than a year ago. Did it take that long for him to receive his tax stamps from the ATF? What is the typical waiting period for the ATF to issue a tax stamp for a “destructive device?”
Also, when that group of Saudi Arabians decided to “borrow” a few airliners to “do something” on September 11 (as Ilhan Omar infamously described it), were they required by law to register those aircraft as “destructive devices” with the ATF? Does the ATF have a form for that, or does the Muslim Brotherhood simply call ahead to give the ATF a courtesy heads up notification?
“how many more ridiculous laws must there be on the books?!?!?! “
someone not so long ago had a book “5 felonies a day” or something like that. and it was for exactly what is described by you and in this case. if YOU are the enemy of the state next week, they can and WILL find something on you.
and while i am overjoyed to see as many leftists rot as possible, and lawfare unleashed on all these DA and judge scumbags… i would specifically call out the “mortgage fraud” thing being used recently after checking primary or secondary or rental residence. anyone with more than one property or an even mildly complex situation knows exactly how vague and ridiculous that entire thing is, and all the exceptions and situations that are not covered at all.
🤣🤣🤣
The world has progressed to a place where not only are there literally millions of people willing, able and hell-bent on carrying-out these types of horrific crimes against innocents they disagree with — just scan the headlines regarding the multiple recent murderous and terrorist acts around the world — but there are many multiple millions more who rejoice when they are successful.
When indoctrination, radicalism, and delusion create individuals willingly committed to giving there own lives for the indiscriminate death of others they are brainwashed to hate and despise, it becomes next to impossible to stop them (this New Years’ bombing plot being the rare exception)(false-flag set-up?).
I cannot remember a time in history when this type of civilizational collapse was so widespread and seemingly coordinated around the world. The current outlook for humanity is paving the way for a monumental re-adjustment among mankind, and I worry that the death and destruction along the way will suffer neither innocents nor perpetrators gladly.
“…I don’t remember a time in history…”. Hmmm, I shall not hold youth nor limited read on history against your perceptions.
“FBI intercepts plot….”
Danged if they do, danged if they don’t.
Miserable situation.
And just like that, nobody is talking about the incompetence of the Brown University investigation!!!!!!
or epstein.
or the autistic j5 patsy
or russiagate
etc.
using this model, its not necessary to solve anything. just throw up more outrage porn every few days, and maybe paint it with bad guy attributes that one side or the other will believe easily (see? another trhanny furry blue hair! its just another gun toting southerner! typical! )
That’s good – no doubt. Trouble is it gives them an accomplishment to talk about while doing NOTHING on the totally provable – and prosecutable – past crimes.
This kind of cover makes a very god thing a distraction imho.
The downward look of the guy with the stars like a 4 star General to the left is pretty convincing that there is a stretch of the truth.
Always dubious. I used to be insulted. Now I just wonder why so many are willing to deface their own character rather than quit their job and allow the scum to sink in the mire. Psalm 69: 2 – “I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.”
“possession of an unregistered destructive device”
This is how Wray spoke. Can you register a destructive device? What is a destructive devise? Baseball bat? Can of gas for my mower? Mortar trowel?
This is a ridiculous statement on its face.
Where are the booking photos?
0.o
this is good, IF it is true without the fiction.
reflecting on the 10-20K islamists who illegally crossed the border during the malarkey regime…and also the Chinese nationals (many males in the military recruiting range) as I am reminded by my treepers friends a day or so ago in another thread.
so reflecting on this, my basic gut reaction is that DOJ/FBI IS and continues to sweep the significant areas of the border because that is where “contacts” are established. (you cross the border, then meet up or communicate with your contacts…or you travel to a specific location and rendezvous…cells are agile, but they still require coordination). Am beginning to consider that this “LA CHAPTER” was “incidentally” swept up in that kind of surveillance effort? I will be interested to know the time line and the predicate that formed a basis for the FBI to inject human sources into this alleged terror group. It’s the time line that I am most interested in. That will help me understand basically what kind of technologies and under what leadership this group was detected and given priority for resources. Not dismissing anything at this point. It’s day one in open source. lots of things to unravel, but yes, my general opinion of the FBI is hyper skeptical given the record of poor performance and outright fraud and criminal conduct, coupled with a new team that doesn’t seem to understand how to actually investigate and do proper pressers for transparency.
I will continue to pray for Bondi and Kash and Bongo. I do this because I do believe that despite the obvious defects, they have made strides that could have never been accomplished under biden. And that IS meaningful to me. Sure I would be much more confident that we would stop playing around with who is on first with the pipe bomber and I certainly would have expected by now that Comey would be in a courtroom faces serious criminal charges….but this IS A WAR and our enemy is not taking any vacations.
Anyway, I wish all the best this Christmas Season. May God hold you steady and may you continue to be examples and leaders that this nation really does need. It’s you that are the White Horses. Never forget that. We will never ever be fully satisfied by DC and the central state. IT IS ON US TO MAKE OUR NATION BETTER…and it starts at home, in your community, in your parish, in your district and in your state. Make it known what you stand for and be unafraid.
God Bless America
And God bless you Regitiger. You’re always able to inject some sanity into this insane world.
Invaluable input, thank you and glad to see one of your posts again!
The lesson that the FBI must be learning now about credibility and integrity is a lesson for all, even for us in our personal lives. Once lost they’re never fully recovered.
Credibility and integrity are not like items of clothing you can put on a shelf in a closet, then take out and put on when convenient. You either have them with you always, or you don’t have them at all.
This is an OP. It’s more smoke and mirrors. What are they doing today that they don’t want us to see, while they flog this propaganda into being?
Their Instagram is still up as well and shows a starting date of July 2025. It’s full of the same slogans.
Their Facebook page is still up. Here’s some curious information. The FB page creation date was October 4 of what appears to be this year. The page ID is 853288897861083. The email contact is [email protected] and instagram is instagram.com/turtleislandliberationfrontla . The only photos on the site are all anti-American in the same format and colors.
Yet, the FBI and DOJ state that this is a sophisticated Leftist plot. Really? The last post was October 23. Nothing here makes sense. In my opinion, it smells like an op.
Uh-huh. More distractions.
I was chuckling as I pored through this. When I read “LA chapter”, I could have spit out a beverage.
The trolls are overwhelming in this comment thread. We see you.
Glad you made that comment. Plenty of tag teams here lately. I’m losing track.
Interesting comment…..
Your name is not familiar….🤔🤔
I see a lot of recognizable names of regular
long time commentators here at the Treehouse…..
having a conversation. Nothing unusual.
I definitely would not call them trolls.
CTH doesn’t have a problem with just trolls…..
😉😉and your reply was to CTHfan…..
How is the weather at Langley? 😉
Been here since 2016, never changed my screen name. Don’t comment much. I do read the more informed poster’s here. Unfortunately, I don’t believe I paid much attention your comments.
I was thinking the same thing.
I dont see a whole lot of trolly trolls. Maybe a few. But certainly not a lot.
Perhaps my troll detector is low on batteries, but “overwhelming in this comment thread?” Not saying there may not be some here, but “overwhelming” I don’t see. Examples or what led you to your conclusion may help. Thanks.
How odd. As SD has stated several times, FIB doesn’t investigate, much less prevent, terrorism unless it affects DC, so this ‘discovery’ was out of character, and, of all places, California.
They discovered the CA bomb-makers’ plot(s) BEFORE making the bomb(s), but took 5 yrs to discover who MADE & PLACED bombs at DNC & RNC.
I need to keep a score pad.
B isn’t for Bureau; it’s for Bungled.
Far Left, AKA, Democrat Brown Shirts. Is this part of Obama’s private army he was wishing for?
Turtle island terrorist have chapters ?
Who are they connected to in this country and outside this country and them Fan Belt Inspectors know of these terrorist ?
Believe nothing you hear and half of what you see because this smells of a Stage preformed BS manufactured performance
The Black Lotus comes from a Marvel comic, I think. lol. If it doesn’t, it should have. Whether the op is real or not, this juries still out, but that doesn’t mean I can’t have fun.
As soon as Potato and Bongers jumped into the cesspool of FBLie they began to smell foul. Now we wear gas masks any time they make an announcement.
The FBI what? Poppycock….this is what Hollywood used to call a publicity stunt.
A satanist by any other name is a satanist.
You can verify most all “anti Americans” easily.
I’m sorry to say but this is just the beginning. There are sleeper cells all over the US! 💁🏻♀️
So they are a group of TILF’s? Better not look that up from your work computer. 🙂
The unfortunate things: We have left our Christian roots behind as western nations. It then becomes evident that any form of democratic republican governing becomes more difficult. Necessarily we will suffer loss of freedoms as a result. When the majority no longer have proper personal self government, it requires a strong external control of one’s actions or anarchy will result.
I want to hear from President Trump the following, “Because of the evil that is rampant in this country, anyone legally able to own a fire arm is eligible for a federal conceal carry permit, good in all 50 states. You just need to go to the post office and buy a $1.00 stamp to put onto your license.”
Edit:
The Supremacy Clause supersedes any commie state objection.