January 6th pipe bomb story published Jan 20th. For some reason, the MSM hasn't picked this up. Is this a non-story,
@dad4?
FBI And Secret Service Are Covering Up Their Role In Alleged January 6 “Pipe Bomb” Plot, New Evidence Suggests
Video footage shows multiple agencies may have lied about the alleged explosive devices and mishandled their investigations
MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER AND ALEX GUTENTAG
It should have been a national scandal. On January 6, 2021, the day of the Capitol riot, a bomb nearly exploded at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in Washington, D.C., according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Had it gone off, it could have killed Vice President Kamala Harris, who
drove by the alleged bomb, and was in the DNC headquarters when the bomb was discovered.
“Although these bombs did not detonate,”
said the FBI earlier this year, “it is important to remember the suspect walked along residential and commercial areas in Capitol Hill just blocks from the U.S. Capitol with viable pipe bombs that could have seriously injured or killed innocent bystanders.” Among those innocent bystanders was the Vice President.
But the incident never became a national scandal. In
an interview with the Los Angeles Times on January 17, 2021, Harris never mentioned the potential assassination attempt. In fact, Harris’s near-death experience was unknown until the Department of Justice
revealed it in a court filing in November 2021. The government had previously incorrectly stated that Harris was in the US Capitol. And the US House of Representatives’ official January 6 Committee investigation’s
841-page report only briefly mentions the pipe bombs in an appendix. The pipe bombs, which were initially key to the narrative that the Capitol riot was a premeditated act of domestic terrorism, are omitted from the report’s detailed analysis and timeline.
A video released by Rep. Thomas Massie and first reported on by Revolver News and The Blaze shows that a passerby with a backpack alerted Capitol Police officers sitting in their cars outside the DNC that there was a pipe bomb nearby. Congressional staffers told Blaze reporter Steve Baker that a Capitol Police plainclothes officer found the DNC pipe bomb. In the video, Capitol Police do not react with alarm, and they let people, including children, pass just a few feet from the pipe bomb as though it is not dangerous. The evidence suggests that the Capitol Police officers knew the bomb was not a threat.
The FBI appears to have taken the explosive devices seriously. The FBI offered a $500,000 reward for help in finding the person who left the bomb. The FBI’s Washington Field Office Director, Steven D’Antuono, recorded
a video urging the public to report suspicious individuals to the FBI. The FBI says that its lab determined that the devices, both pipe bombs with 60-minute kitchen timers, were “viable.”
But a National Explosives Task Force (NETF) Quick Look Report,
leaked to CBS News, suggested that the bombs could not have been detonated remotely from a secondary device like a cell phone. “All of it suggests that if they had been set, they were designed to go off on January 5th,” reported CBS News investigative correspondent Catherin Herridge. This leaked report calls into question the accepted pipe bomb timeline.
What’s more, Kyle Seraphin, a former FBI agent who worked on the investigation,
said the explosive devices were inoperable. Technicians from the Joint Program Office for Countering IEDs, Seraphin stated, told him the devices lacked the necessary assembly to work. And even D’Antuono admitted to Rep. Thomas Massie, who participated in the questioning of D’Antuono before the House Judiciary, that the bombs wouldn’t have worked.
FBI agent turned whistleblower Steve Friend told Public, “Without compromising sources, I’ve heard there are components of this that are part of the Department of Homeland Security’s training for bombs.”
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