McCabe on Idaho Student Murders: ‘Great Job by the FBI Surveillance Teams Here’

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MCCABE: “Sure. So, it’s really an amazing story and one that highlights really the remarkable surveillance capacity of the FBI. So, we know that the subject was already on law enforcement’s radar while he was in Idaho, probably shortly before he left to see his parents, or travel across the country. And we also know that the surveillance was established in Idaho and actually followed him across the country. It’s an incredibly complicated, well-choreographed ballet, if I may, of surveillance efforts that would cross multiple FBI field divisions. Would involve multiple surveillance teams who were following him in certain areas and handing him off to new teams. That surveillance ends up in Pennsylvania what we know as a very rural area. It can be very challenging to surveil someone in those circumstances because any kind of vehicles or people that aren’t normally from that area, really stand out to the local population and, of course, to the subject. So, great job by the FBI surveillance teams here to be able to maintain an eye on this subject while the investigators and prosecutors were working back in Idaho. They get their probable cause, and get in front of a judge and get an arrest warrant.”