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Is anyone else nervous About keeping that much explosive material on hand may Be more sinister than run-of-the-mill incompetence and bureaucracy?

Like, this is a perfect opportunity to slowly sell large amounts of a regulated material, ammonium nitrate, on the black market?

I usually guard against conspiratorial Explanations when mere incompetence will suffice. But this does speak to two compelling explanatory narratives.

First why in the world other than the reported bureaucracy would they keep that much just laying around. Second slowly selling over time explains the missing material from the FBI estimate.



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