RexMundane said:
It wasn't "late" though, it was the earliest that the relevant parties could have made any comment. It's not just "6 months" as an approximate, it was exactly 26 weeks later and any gag order or otherwise police sanctioned silence on the issue would have lifted.
Uh, gag order? police sanctioned silence? You may want to take it easy on them TV shows. Gag orders in LE matters are issued by a court, usually to prevent details of an impending trial leaking to the public and tainting the jury pool. The police certainly don't have the legal authority to impose such an order, what happens sometimes is that the media will self-censor to prevent aiding the suspect in an active/continuing criminal incident with too much up to date info.
Neither of which applies in this case. As a matter of fact, bomb threats are often immediately reported on, even ones that turned out to be a hoax, precisely because of how important it is to evacuate and prevent people from going there. When was the last time you heard a news report that says "Breaking News! xxxx school received a bomb threat.... 6 months ago!"
As it was just a threat and not an actual bomb where lives were at stake, and since the "bomber" clearly just wanted attention, the best thing would be to deny it to him, hence the silence for this much time.
Can you maybe explain why a threat against an individual should be taken seriously and publicly condemned, but a bomb threat to a convention which threatens the live of a substantial number of people (ironically involving the same individual) "is just a threat", and shouldn't be published as to deny the perpetrator's crave for attention?
There was no reason to bring it up before the gag ran out.
Again, unless you know about a pending criminal trial that no one else on the planet knows about, there isn't any gag order.