Rep. Michael McCaul appeared on Fox News Monday morning and described the 25-minute confession video found on the phone of the suspected Austin bomber Mark Conditt, in which he describes himself as a “psychopath.”
McCaul, a Texas Republican and chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, told Fox News’ Bill Hemmer that Conditt filmed the confession tape in his car.
“It’s a dark video, I think moments before he blew himself up,” McCaul said. “Amazingly the cell phone actually survived the explosion. And so Austin Police Department have the cell phone as evidence.”
Conditt detonated a bomb in his car, killing himself and wounding a police officer, as a SWAT team pursued him near Austin, Texas after the serial bombings that rocked the city and left two people dead.
“On that cell phone was the confession tape, 25-minute video,” McCaul explained. “Shows absolutely no remorse for what he did, killing these innocent victims and wounding so many more others.”
“He said, ‘I wish I was sorry, but I’m not.’ He refers to himself as a psychopath. He says, ‘I’ve been a sociopath all my life.’ Even more chilling at the end, he says, ‘maybe I should just blow myself up in a McDonald’s and end the whole thing.’ That’s where he was headed.”
“So this guy is clearly
On Saturday, McCaul suggested the Austin Bombing should cause officials to consider creating a criminal charge for domestic terrorism.
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