(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The FBI still hasn’t answered questions about anomalies regarding its investigation of the pipe bombs placed outside the Democratic and Republican national headquarters a day before Jan. 6—and Republicans’ patience about the matter is apparently wearing thin.
“We wrote to you on March 9, 2022, requesting a briefing about the status of the FBI’s investigation into the pipe bombs,” wrote Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Andy Biggs of Arizona and Bill Posey of Florida in a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday.
#NEWS: @Jim_Jordan, @RepAndyBiggsAZ, and @congbillposey Press FBI for Information on January 6 Pipe Bomb Investigation.
One former FBI assistant director observed, “[i]t just doesn’t add up . . . [t]here’s just too much to work with to not know who this guy is.” pic.twitter.com/ZVpwEkhS0r
— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) May 24, 2023
The letter follows disclosures from an FBI whistleblower, who said that the pipe bombs were inoperable—contradicting the FBI’s official claims that they were a grave threat to the public.
FBI whistleblower Kyle Seraphin, who worked on the Jan. 6 investigation, told the Washington Times earlier this month about the phony pipe bombs, reportedly saying that technicians who worked in the Joint Program Office for Countering IEDs told him that the devices left at the headquarters of the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee were incapable of detonating.
“The devices were primitive and had all the components you would have for a bomb, but they weren’t assembled like a real bomb,” Seraphin told the Washington Times.
“They would have never gone off,” he added. “There was no chance they could have actually detonated. So they were inert devices. They just looked good.”
In their letter, the Republican congressmen noted another shocking fact about the FBI’s pipe bomb investigation: The bureau allegedly linked the suspected bomber to a D.C. MetroRail SmarTrip card. The card indicated the individual got off at a Northern Virginia stop after planting both devices on Jan. 5.
“FBI used security camera footage from the Northern Virginia Metro stop to identify the license plate of a car that the individual entered. Still, the FBI has not identified the subject,” Jordan, Biggs and Posey wrote.
The letter also quoted former FBI Assistant Director Christopher Swecker, who has reportedly said that the investigation “just doesn’t add up.”
“There’s just way too much material there to work with. … There’s just too much video, financial transactions, a car, a Metro card. There’s just too much to work with there to not know who this guy is,” Swecker has said.
Skeptics have questioned the FBI’s official story about the J6 pipe bombs for years. Revolver News has published several investigations into the matter, showing the improbability that the bombs could have been sitting outside the DNC and RNC headquarters for some 17 hours without being discovered by the Secret Service agents and their bomb-sniffing dogs.
“The notion that the Secret Service, the most elite protection detail in the world, swept the DNC building and managed to miss the pipe bomb is impossible to believe—either that or what transpired was such an act of such gross negligence that it is tantamount to deliberate malfeasance,” Revolver noted last October.
“Indeed, as the Google Earth satellite photo reveals, the pipe bomb was mere feet from both the entry and exit doors, as well as the parking garage, where the Secret Service claims it conducted a sweep,” it added.
Jordan, Biggs and Posey asked Wray to provide a briefing on the matter by June 7.
Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.
