In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 6 Feb 2021 03:28:12 -0800 (PST),
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On Friday, February 5, 2021 at 2:04:20 PM UTC-5, wrote:
Tucker Carlson was a bit wound up last night.
Bank of America culled their files to thin down
the list of possible suspects in the break in of the
riot/breakin at the Capitol.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-bank-of-america-customer-data-feds-capitol-riot

Don't you think they've always done that?

Cindy Hamilton

If you mean banks have cooperated, yes. If you mean exactly what's
described above, I sort of doubt it. If they had a suspect, they'd
see** where he spent his money; they'd get his credit card records. I
guess you don't have to know what cards someone has to do that. But
going in the other direction has not been worth it.

And if you have a suspect, you might check airline records for him**,
but again, going in the other direction woudl not have been productive.

**It might well require sufficent evidence to get a warrant, but here,
well maybe they had a John Doe warrant. I read the story quickly.

If there is one crime by someone you think came from out of town, it's
not worth checking out everyone who stayed in hotel or airbnb that
night.

But if you have hundreds and you know hundreds came from out of town
that makes a big difference.

And did some of them have guns? I didn't see that mentioned in stories
about the rioters, but iirc the article above says they checked gun
sales. Would that be because it was hard, even before the riots, to
carry a gun in checked baggage? I thought that was okay, but if it
wasn't, then was it possible to buy a gun in virginia with no local
address and no waiting? If so, matching that with people who flew in a
a day or two earlier, or who stayed in hotels, is a good way to find
those who brought guns to the riots.


This is about arrest warrants but I suppose there are also John Doe
search warrants. https://definitions.uslegal.com/j/john-doe-warrant/
It's about DNA, but I think such warrants existed before DNA was used.