by Frank Holmes, reporter
A federal judge just sentenced Stewart Rhodes to 18 years in prison for being part of the seditious conspiracy related to the January 6 Capitol Riot — but the FBI has yet to solve the most explosive event that took place in the capital that weekend.
Who planted the two pipe bombs found near the Republican and Democratic Party headquarters? The question remains unanswered.
Officials have jailed numerous rioters, but they’ve yet to crack the case of the bomber… or have they?
A whistleblower says the FBI knows more about the January 5 bomb plot that it lets on — a lot more. He revealed three facts that the Biden administration’s Deep State has kept silent for more than two years.
First of all, the “bombs” couldn’t have hurt anyone, he said.
Former FBI agent Kyle Seraphin, who had a hand in the investigation, says technicians told him the two explosive devices left outside the Republican and Democratic National Committees could never have exploded.
“The bombs were BS,” Seraphin told The Washington Times.
Second, and most concerning: The FBI almost certainly knows the identity of the bomber…but it won’t tell Congress.
Seraphin claimed there’s a cover-up. He said agents long ago linked the suspected bomber to a card that riders of the city’s subway swipe to ride from station to station.
The MetroRail SmarTrip Card shows the suspect riding from a Washington Metro station into the northern Virginia suburbs, where security camera footage fills in the blanks.
The camera caught the suspect getting into a vehicle, and with that the FBI was able “to identify the license plate of a car that the individual entered,” wrote Rep. Jim Jodan, R-Ohio, wrote to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday. He was joined by Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., and Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla.
They even know what the individual who planted the IEDs was wearing: a hoodie, Air Max Speed Turf shoes with a yellow Nike logo, gloves, and a backpack, Seraphin revealed.
House Republicans, headed by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), are challenging the FBI to stop putting off lawmakers who are seeking critical information on the January 6 pipe bomb investigation.
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“Still, the FBI has not identified the subject,” they pointed out.
That raised eyebrows.
“It just doesn’t add up,” former FBI assistant director Christopher Swecker said of the case. “There’s just too much to work with to not know who this guy is.”
#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 Biden administration claimed it had pulled out all the stops to find this dangerous bomber, even going so far as to offer a $500,000 reward for anyone who could give them information about the suspect.
But Seraphin said they had more than enough material to work with, if they wanted to.
“I don’t know what they [eventually] did on that case, but I know that it was BS,” Seraphin told the Times. ‘It seems like they had a good lead, and they could have run it down. But as far as I know, they never did.”
Seraphin called the FBI’s decisions “dumb.”
Congressional Republicans agree the FBI has been dumb in the sense that they’ve been mute: The FBI has stonewalled multiple requests to brief members about the pipe bomber investigation.
“Your failure to comply with our request is particularly concerning given recent media reports regarding the pipe bomb investigation,” Jordan and company wrote to Wray.
They asked the FBI director to tell them what they know about this allegedly violent domestic terrorist last March 9 and again this January 17—shortly after the new Congress, with its new Republican majority, took power.
“To date, you have failed to comply,” they reminded Wray.
“The slow progression of the FBI’s investigation into the January 6 pipe bombs raises significant concerns about the FBI’s prioritization of that case in relation to other January 6 investigations,” the congressmen told Wray.
The congressmen gave Biden’s FBI director until June 7 to cough up more information.
There’s also a third fact that Seraphin made public: The pipe bomber’s Metro card was bought by someone else.
“The card had never been used before,” Seraphin said. “It was bought a year prior by a retired chief master sergeant in the Air Force, and he was a security contractor. So, he held a security clearance.”
Has the FBI interviewed that man? Did the FBI employ that man?
“Given what we know about the FBI’s politically motivated malfeasance during the Trump era, the likelihood the pipe bomb story was another FBI hoax instead of a legitimate threat becomes more conceivable each day,” wrote Julie Kelly in February.
Since then, another FBI whistleblower, Steve Friend, has come forward and told Congress that the agency was cooking the books to make the number of domestic violence investigations seem much higher than it actually was.
Steve Friend was a distinguished FBI agent. The FBI retaliated against him after he exposed how the Bureau was cooking the books on domestic violent extremism cases. pic.twitter.com/X1JpMYDkBq
— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) May 18, 2023
The pipe bombing “was likely just a propaganda operation used to attack Trump supporters,” claimed Jim Hoft of The Gateway Pundit.
“Who would ever do such a thing?”
That’s what Jim Jordan wants to find out.
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”