Seth Aaron Pendley, who claimed he went to the Jan. 6 riot with a gun in his car, said he hoped the attack would provoke the government into an overreaction. A Texas man who wanted to blow up an Amazon data center to disrupt the internet and upset “the oligarchy” was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday, federal prosecutors said. The attempted attack in Virginia never occurred, and Seth Aaron Pendley, 28, was communicating with an undercover FBI agent instead of an explosives supplier, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas said. Pendley, of Wichita Falls, was arrested in April. He pleaded guilty in June to one count of malicious attempt to destroy a building with an explosive. (…) Pendley later told someone on an encrypted messaging app that he planned to use plastic explosives to attack Amazon Web Services data centers “to kill about 70% of the internet,” the documents say. Pendley thought the data center served the FBI, CIA and other agencies. The goal, he said, was that the U.S. government would overreact and be shown to be a “dictatorship,” Pendley admitted in court papers.
via nbcnews: Texas man who wanted to blow up Amazon data center sentenced to 10 years