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FBI Likely Investigating Nashville Explosion ‘as an Act of Terrorism’: Former Top Cop Andrew McCabe

Former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe says the Federal Bureau of Investigation is likely investigating the “intentional” Christmas morning explosion of an RV in downtown Nashville as an act of terrorism.
“I would expect that the FBI is treating this presumptively as an act of terrorism,” McCabe, who also served as acting Director of the FBI, told CNN Friday afternoon. CNN reported the FBI is taking the lead on the investigation.
The FBI is taking over the investigation into an early-morning vehicle explosion in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, that left at least three people injured https://t.co/SPufpNh7p3 pic.twitter.com/UWrPfBDjk9
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) December 25, 2020
“That doesn’t necessarily mean that it is an act of international terrorism, or domestic terrorism,” McCabe added.
“Those two possibilities are still looming out there, we really have to know more about the people behind it before you can make that sort of determination.”
McCabe added that “anytime you have the intentional detonation of an explosive device like this,” the FBI would investigate it as if it were terrorism.
The Nashville Fire Dept. posted this video:
Footage from the scene on 2nd Ave North as multiple agencies continue to work and investigate an explosion from earlier this morning. pic.twitter.com/5g40RhwNNl
— Nashville Fire Dept (@NashvilleFD) December 25, 2020
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