>>3861806 (LB)
They've got confirmation it was planted by an employee. Maybe the employee was undercover FBI, but that doesn't matter. This needed to be PUBLIC to be convincing. Without the bomb hoax, it never goes public and never forces government involvement. Without the hoax, they could have just blamed the employee. In short, he absolutely could have found a way to hide it, or cover it up, if the bomb hoax didn't happen.