For all those concerned about Brian Coles attorney being hopelessly conflicted, just go watch this interview from Jan, the only public interview his defense team gave.
It did Cole no favors. He is a long time friend of the family, civil rights attorney so far out of his league he had to hire an entire second law-firm from Tennessee and another from DC to help represent him. And still did this interview. PS watch the entire interview. This is what actual journalism looks like.
The reasonable explanation for why he had these materials.
He couldn’t have been making “pipe bombs” because we don’t want to call them pipe bombs and want to focus on viability.
Q: “Is he (Cole)the man that made and placed these devices?”
A: “I’m not ready to answer that yet”
His own attorney has not been convinced he didn’t construct and plant the devices, only that they couldn’t be considered explosives under the technical reading of the statute and that somehow makes Cole not a danger to the public. Further this would have been the best time to name different suspect but he fails to do so.