The January 6 Pipe Bombs Look Like Another FBI Hoax

[Brian4Liberty]

The January 6 Pipe Bombs Look Like Another FBI Hoax
written by julie kelly - february 16, 2022

In the 15-minute time span before the joint session of Congress convened at 1:00 p.m. on January 6, 2021, two incidents that set the stage for the day’s ensuing chaos happened simultaneously.

First, a man named Ryan Samsel, after taking some sort of direction from Ray Epps, overran a thin line of police and metal racks in what would be the first official breach of Capitol grounds around 12:50 p.m. (Samsel was charged and has been incarcerated for more than a year; Epps faces no charges.) Joining Samsel were members of the Proud Boys and a still-unknown number of FBI informants.

Around the same time, a woman named Karlin Younger who just happened to be walking to a laundry facility near the Republican National Committee headquarters just happened to look down and see what she believed was a pipe bomb nestled between a dumpster and a fence right next to the building.

Both events fueled panic in the nation’s capital just as a contentious meeting to certify the Electoral College vote in the 2020 presidential election got underway in the chamber of the US House of Representatives. Then, the news got worse. Capitol police reportedly discovered another explosive outside the DNC headquarters.

The New York Times immediately broke the story: “The device that was found at the R.N.C. was a pipe bomb that was successfully destroyed by a bomb squad, according to an official for the R.N.C,” reporters Maggie Haberman, Michael Schmidt, and Katie Benner wrote. “The package at the D.N.C. has yet to be identified, according to a top Democrat briefed on the matter who was not authorized to speak publicly about it.”

The Times story went viral. At 1:53 p.m., Representative Elaine Luria tweeted that she “just had to evacuate my office because of a bomb reported outside, while the President’s anarchists are trying to force their way into the Capitol.”

Capitol police the next day issued a statement. “The USCP Hazardous Materials Response Team determined that both devices were, in fact, hazardous and could cause great harm to public safety,” Steven Sund, the Capitol police chief wrote on January 7, the day he resigned from the force. “The devices were disabled and turned over to the FBI for further investigation and analysis.”

During a press conference a few days later, Michael Sherwin, the acting US Attorney for the District of Columbia, told reporters that law enforcement agencies, including the ATF and FBI, were collaborating to find the suspects who set the pipe bombs. The bombers would be “brought to justice,” promised Steven D’Antuono, the newly appointed head of the D.C. FBI field office, who warned that “every rock was being unturned” to apprehend the suspect or suspects. The FBI initially offered a $50,000 reward.
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But more than a year later, not only has a suspect not been identified or caught, the pipe bomb story gets weirder and weirder.

Politico recently reported that Kamala Harris was inside the DNC headquarters at the same time the explosive sat outside the building. Harris, who inexplicably left the Capitol around 11:30 a.m. on January 6 after attending an intelligence briefing, choosing not to participate as a US senator in the certification of her own historical election, was evacuated out of the DNC headquarters by the Secret Service at 1:14 p.m., several minutes after Capitol police inspected the building after the RNC bomb was found.

That shocking revelation means one of two things: The Secret Service, in a security sweep of the DNC building and exterior grounds prior to her arrival, missed what the FBI insists was a viable explosive device—a scenario that seems deeply unlikely considering the city was in a state of heightened alert and agents presumably would be extra cautious.

Or, the FBI is lying.

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.

Which leads us to the woman who “found” the pipe bombs outside the RNC right just before the joint session gaveled in on January 6. Karlin Younger is described in news reports as a “resident” of D.C. or an employee of the Department of Commerce.

But Younger’s résumé is a bit more detailed. On January 6, when she took a midday walk to the laundromat and found the first pipe bomb, Younger was a project manager for FirstNet Authority, a public-private partnership between AT&T and first responders to prioritize emergency communications during an attack or disaster. Standing board members for FirstNet include the attorney general and secretary of Homeland Security. Several federal agencies, including the Justice Department, use FirstNet services.

And a few weeks before January 6, FirstNet received its largest-ever commitment from a law enforcement agency, a $92 million contract for FirstNet’s services.

That agency was the FBI.
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More: https://amgreatness.com/2022/02/14/the-january-6-pipe-bombs-look-like-another-fbi-hoax/

 

[Anti Globalist]

FBI foils another FBI plot.

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://twitter.com/EpochTimes/status/1558251992522391552

Ray Epps Told FBI He Expected a Bomb Attack Near the Capitol on January 6, Documents Show
Epps admitted to trespassing, directing protesters to go into the Capitol. 'I wish I could take that back,' he told agents.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/ray-e...itol-on-january-6-documents-show_4655405.html
[archive link: https://archive.ph/NXlJF]
Joseph Hanneman (12 August 2022)

When James Ray Epps Sr. first called the FBI regarding his January 2021 activities in Washington D.C., he didn’t mention how he implored protesters in several locations to go inside the Capitol, but he later told an agent that he expected a bomb would detonate on a side street near the Capitol.

Those are just two of the revelations in a collection of Epps-related material obtained by The Epoch Times, including FBI interview summaries, FBI audio recordings, transcripts, videos, and photographs.

In two interviews with the FBI in 2021, Epps explained his actions on Jan. 5 and Jan. 6. He admitted he was guilty of trespassing on restricted Capitol grounds and confessed to urging protesters to go to—and into—the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Despite the admissions, the FBI never arrested Epps and he was not charged by the U.S. Department of Justice with any Jan. 6 crimes. The non-action has fueled a crop of theories that he might have been working for the FBI or another agency.

Epps, 61, has repeatedly denied those suggestions through his attorney.

Epps recently sold his house and land in Queen Creek, Ariz., because of threats and harassment and moved to Colorado, he told the New York Times in July. According to online records, the Arizona property sold for $2.2 million on April 28, 2022.

Epps at one time was No. 16 on the FBI’s Jan. 6 most-wanted page. His entry was later scrubbed from the list without explanation. He is among a handful of persons of interest to have their photos deleted from the FBI site.

‘Like a Terrorist Act’

In an interview with FBI agents on March 3, 2021, Epps said he brought a first-aid kit in his backpack to Washington because he expected a terror attack.

“Yeah, I thought there might be a problem. That’s why I was there,” Epps told an FBI agent and an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force officer in a meeting at the Phoenix office of Epps’s attorney, John Blischak.

Blischak told The Epoch Times he would comment after reviewing the FBI interview summary, but had not done so by press time.

“I was afraid they were going to set off an explosion on one of the side streets,” Epps said, according to a recording of the interview obtained by The Epoch Times. “So we tried to stay in the middle, tried to get there early, tried to stay away from the sides. And if something like that happened, I had a first-aid kit. I could help out.”

Epps told the agents the possibility of violence weighed heavily on his mind and he originally did not plan to travel to Washington. It was only when learning that his son, James Epps Jr., was going to the Trump rally that the senior Epps decided to go and keep an eye on his son, he said.

“As time went on, I started getting a bad feeling like something’s gonna happen,” said Epps, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and former Oath Keepers leader in Arizona. “There’s a lot of wackies out there. I thought something would happen in D.C. I thought there might be, what do they call them, EOD, something like that?”

Epps might have been referring to an improvised explosive device (IED), which is a homemade bomb that was a favorite weapon of insurgents in Afghanistan during the United States’ long war there. In military parlance, an EOD refers to an explosive ordnance disposal specialist—someone who defuses and destroys explosives.

An agent asked for clarification: “Oh, you mean like a terrorist act?”

“Right, like a terrorist act,” Epps said.

The agents did not press Epps on what led him to believe there would be an explosion, nor did they ask about the two alleged pipe bombs found outside the Republican and Democrat party headquarters, each just blocks from the Capitol. The RNC pipe bomb was placed near the corner of the Capitol Hill Club facing a side street, similar to the description Epps offered.

The devices did not detonate and the FBI has not arrested anyone in those cases.

Epps told the FBI he regretted the things he said in downtown D.C. the night of Jan. 5, 2021. He spoke to internet personality Baked Alaska and video podcaster Villain Report, both of whom recorded their exchanges.

“In fact tomorrow, I don’t even like to say it because I’ll be arrested. …I’ll say it. We need to go into the Capitol,” Epps told Baked Alaska, whose legal name is Anthime Gionet.

Epps shouted a similar theme to the crowd at large: “Tomorrow, we need to go into the Capitol. Into the Capitol. Peacefully,” he said. The crowd then started chanting, “Fed! Fed! Fed! Fed!”

The FBI agents told Epps that his statements on Jan. 5 were problematic. They said they found him often on video and in photographs from Jan. 5 and 6.

Epps replied: “I’m the tallest guy in the crowd, and I stick out, man. They followed me.” Then he joked, “I could never be a bank robber.”

“We said that the same way,” one of the agents said. “We said, ‘It’s a big guy and every photo we find, he’s in it.’ The night before, that video didn’t help.

“…And the video the night before, what you said basically predicted what happened,” the agent said.

“I wish I could take that back,” Epps replied. He called the statements “really stupid.”

On Jan. 6, Epps was filmed near the Washington Monument imploring the crowd, “We are going to the Capitol, where our problems are. It’s that direction. Please spread the word.”

When speaking to a young man in a red and black mackinaw jacket, Epps said, “When we go in, leave this here [pointing to something]. You don’t need to get shot,” according to a video of the exchange.

First Call to FBI on Jan. 8

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[ClaytonB]

FBI foils another FBI plot.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1559212275386519554

 

[Anti Federalist]

FBI lied about Jan 6 pipe bombs. They were inoperable "duds"

Jan. 6 pipe bombs at RNC, DNC were inoperable, says ex-agent who contradicts FBI’s official story

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/may/12/jan-6-pipe-bombs-rnc-dnc-were-inoperable-says-ex-a/

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times - Updated: 8:37 p.m. on Friday, May 12, 2023

Nearly two years ago, a person wearing a sweatshirt with the hood pulled up, a pair of Air Max Speed Turf shoes with a yellow Nike logo, a backpack and gloves walked through Capitol Hill alleys equipped with what federal investigators say were two live pipe bombs.

Now a former FBI agent who worked on the case says the pipe bombs planted near the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee a day before Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol were inoperable.

The former agent, Kyle Seraphin, said that technicians who worked in the Joint Program Office for Countering IEDs told him that the devices left at the RNC and DNC 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,” he said. “They would have never gone off. There was no chance they could have actually detonated. So they were inert devices. They just looked good.”

His account contradicts the FBI‘s official version that the bombs could have gone off at any time that day — a story the bureau repeated in January when offering a $500,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a suspect.

“Although these bombs did not detonate, 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,” the FBI‘s news release said. “Moreover, the suspect may still pose a danger to the public or themselves.”

“They would have exploded. They could have exploded,” Steven D’Antuono, the former assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office told ABC News chief justice correspondent Pierre Thomas last year. “They are viable devices that could have gone off and exploded, causing a lot of serious injury or death.”

Mr. D’Antuono has since retired from the FBI.

Mr. Seraphin stressed that investigators don’t know whether the devices were intended to be inert.

The FBI did not respond to a request for comment.

Former FBI Assistant Director Christopher Swecker said the bureau sometimes withholds or circulates incorrect information to protect the investigation, though he didn’t know if that was the case with the pipe bombs.

“You’re really not supposed to put out … any information about the investigation. And that’s the golden rule, and initial reports are often not correct, or garbled,” he told The Washington Times.

“It probably still qualifies as a weapon of mass destruction, even if it’s the tiniest little pipe bomb … whenever you have the ingredients together, even though you’re too incompetent to actually make it go off or wire it,” he said.

Former FBI agent Jonathan Gilliam also said it is common practice to withhold information that could reveal sources and methods or compromise leads in an investigation.

He offered another take, however. He said that if the FBI leadership had a “leftist” political agenda in the pipe bomb investigation, perhaps they “don’t want it getting out that there was nothing to this.”

The bomber is believed to have carried the devices, which were made of threaded galvanized pipes, kitchen timers and homemade black powder, in a backpack.

At a congressional hearing, Rep. Thomas Massie, Kentucky Republican, recently asked ATF Director Steven Dettelbach about the status of the pipe bomber investigation. The congressman said he assumed the devices were likely inoperative given the timers used.

Mr. Dettelbach refused to give any details about the ongoing investigation.

Mr. Seraphin, who was suspended from the FBI in April 2022 after refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccine and eventually fired last month for alleged unprofessional conduct, also criticized the bureau’s early handling of the pipe bomb investigation.

He said that within days of the discovery of the bombs, FBI investigators review closed-circuit video of the masked pipe bomber as he traveled through the Washington Metro system.

What’s shocking, Mr. Seraphin said, was that early on the FBI 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.

“So they tagged the entrance time and the exit time to that card to that guy. And then they found out who bought the card. And the guy who bought the card was not the guy who was using it,” Mr. Seraphin said.

“The card had never been used before. 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.”

The FBI had surveillance video that showed the suspect enter a car with a visible license plate after exiting at a metro stop in Northern Virginia.

“So what they did is they tied, whoever the person was that dropped the bomb with cameras all the way through through the train and getting into a car with that license plate,” Mr. Seraphin said.

“Now, at the end of the day, that makes the guy such a person of interest, but it doesn’t make him the subject… It could have been anybody associated with [the suspect] but it was the place to start.”

Mr. Seraphin and his team surveilled the retired airman, who lived in a Northern Virginia townhouse, for a couple of days and learned about his background.

Although Mr. Seraphin, who also served in the Air Force, wanted to approach the Air Force veteran and talk to him, his bureau superiors forbade him to do so before his team was removed from the case.

“I don’t know what they [eventually] did on that case, but I know that it was BS and the bombs were BS, and it seems like they had a good lead, and they could have run it down. But as far as I know, they never did,” he said. “He may still be occasionally surveilled. That’s how dumb it gets.”

Mr. Swecker, the former FBI assistant director, said he couldn’t explain why the Air Force veteran wasn’t more aggressively pursued.

“That’s a lot of good lead material there to work with. And you can peel back layer after layer using that information. I’m just astounded,” he said. “It 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.”

The devices were placed outside the two buildings between 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. on Jan. 5, 2021, but law enforcement did not find them until the following day.

U.S. Capitol Police and agents from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were called to the RNC‘s office at about 12:45 p.m. on Jan. 6.

Another call came in about 30 minutes later about the device found at the DNC headquarters nearby, as agents and bomb technicians were still examining the bomb at the RNC. No one was hurt, and federal officials said both bombs were rendered inoperable.

The FBI released surveillance video that showed a person wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, a mask and gloves placing one of the explosives under a bench outside the DNC.

Another surveillance video shows the same person walking in an alley close to RNC headquarters before the bomb was planted there.

When offering the $500,000 reward in January, the FBI said it has poured significant resources into the pipe bomb investigation.

The bureau said its agents and its partners in law enforcement have conducted approximately 1,000 interviews, visited more than 1,200 residences and businesses, collected more than 39,000 video files and assessed nearly 500 tips.

“We remain grateful to the American people, who have provided invaluable tips that have helped us advance the investigation,” said David Sundberg, assistant director in charge of the FBI Washington Field Office. “With the significantly increased reward, we urge those who may have previously hesitated to contact us — or who may not have realized they had important information — to review the information on our website and come forward with anything relevant.”

“Despite the unprecedented volume of data review involved in this case, the FBI and our partners continue to work relentlessly to bring the perpetrator of these dangerous attempted attacks to justice,” he said.

 

[PAF]

Emphasis added:

“It probably still qualifies as a weapon of MASS DESTRUCTION, even if it’s the tiniest little pipe bomb

 

[Anti Globalist]

Feds need to step their game up if they can't make pipe bombs that would cause considerable damage.

 

[69360]

Feds need to step their game up if they can't make pipe bombs that would cause considerable damage.

Maybe they learned a lesson from the first WTC bombing. Don't give out bombs that work.

 

[TheTexan]

An inoperable pipe bomb... would that be at that point, a pipe ?

 

[ClaytonB]

 

[Occam's Banana]

I'mma just put this here for absolutely no reason whatsoever ...

 

[unknown]

The FBI Knows What Car Was Used In J6 DNC Pipe Bomb, But Refuses To Identify Prime Suspect

 

[acptulsa]

They aren't through planting "evidence".

https://twitter.com/Rob1515/status/1665046121746399235

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1682022511129624578

 

[Occam's Banana]

A plainclothes Capitol Police officer discovered the DNC pipe bomb
A Secret Service SUV was parked only about 15-20 feet away from the alleged bomb's location.
https://thepostmillennial.com/revea...l-police-officer-discovered-the-dnc-pipe-bomb
{Darian Douraghy | 17 January 2024}

The individual who spotted the pipe bomb placed at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, DC, and discovered on Jan. 6, 2021, was a plainclothes Capitol Police officer, a new report has revealed.

Numerous congressional staffers who are familiar with the probe told Blaze Media [see below - OB] that after months of the FBI stonewalling inquiries of various congressional committees, they now know who that person is after they were previously only identified as a “passerby.”

Footage shows the discovery of the pipe bomb at the DNC on Jan. 6, 2021
https://rumble.com/v47ls9i-footage-...-the-pipe-bomb-at-the-dnc-on-jan.-6-2021.html
{The Post Millennial Live | 17 January 2024}

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This recently unknown person was seen casually walking to a DC Metropolitan Police vehicle parked in the DNC’s parking ramp driveway near South Capitol St. at 1:05 pm on Jan. 6 to reportedly tell other law enforcement that he had found what seemed to be a pipe bomb.

He is seen sporting dark clothes and a backpack in leaked footage, initially conversating with an officer on the driver’s side of the patrol car. He then casually strolls around to the car’s passenger side window, where he talks a bit more.

The plainclothes officer then slowly walks over to a black Secret Service SUV in order to speak with the vehicle's occupants. The SUV was notably stopped only about 15-20 feet away from where the alleged bomb was placed.

Another discovery is that this exact vehicle was part of a motorcade that took Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to the DNC building only about 90 minutes earlier. This revelation was not unveiled for a full year.

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Revealed: A plainclothes Capitol cop found the DNC pipe bomb
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/an...inclothes-capitol-cop-found-the-dnc-pipe-bomb
[archive link: https://archive.is/YkbOp]
{Steve Baker | 17 January 2024}

Video surveillance shows Secret Service and DC Metro Police finished their lunches before acting on the discovery of the “viable” explosive device by a person previously identified as a “passerby.”

Blaze Media can now reveal that the person who discovered the pipe bomb at Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021, was a United States Capitol Police plainclothes officer.

Multiple congressional staffers familiar with the investigation confirm to Blaze Media that despite months of the FBI stonewalling congressional committees’ inquiries, they now know the identity of that individual — previously only identified as a “passerby.”

At 1:05 p.m. on January 6, the then-unidentified person casually approached a D.C. Metropolitan Police vehicle parked in the DNC’s parking ramp driveway near South Capitol St., reportedly to inform police officers that he’d seen what appeared to be a pipe bomb.

Wearing dark clothes and a backpack, the individual can be seen in a video posted on Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie’s YouTube channel, first speaking to an officer on the driver’s side of the patrol car. He then casually walks around to the car’s passenger side window, where he leans in to chat for several seconds.

Again — in no apparent hurry — the person walks around to the driver’s side of an adjacently parked black Secret Service SUV for a conversation with that vehicle’s occupants. The SUV was parked only about 15-20 feet from the location of the alleged bomb.

Jan. 6, 2021 DNC Pipe Bomb Discovery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seHfgsPnalM
{RepThomasMassie | 20 July 2023}

I’m publicly releasing footage about the discovery of the pipe bomb at the DNC on 1/6. After 900 days, why won’t FBI Director Wray answer congressional questions about the case? Did they even interview the person who appears to have found the bomb?


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The Secret Service vehicle was part of a motorcade that delivered Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to the DNC building only about 90 minutes earlier.

Despite extensive media coverage of the two pipe bombs on January 6 — the first of which was found minutes earlier at the Republican National Committee headquarters on First Street — to this day, no one knows why Harris was delivered to the DNC that morning rather than to the Capitol to participate in the certification of the 2020 Electoral College votes. She was still a senator on January 6.

Curiously, Harris’ presence at the DNC building and in proximity to the alleged pipe bomb was not revealed for a full year.

Politico reported on the first anniversary of January 6:

Uncertainty about Harris’ whereabouts as a mob breached the Capitol building briefly bubbled up in a handful of criminal cases connected to the Jan. 6 insurrection. In dozens of indictments, the Justice Department had erroneously described Harris as being present inside the Capitol during the attack and only recently discovered the error. DOJ has since issued numerous superseding indictments to correct the mistake.
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Even more curious is why Harris has never tried to milk public sympathy for having been at the DNC headquarters less than 10 yards away from what the FBI has described as a “viable” explosive device that “could have been detonated, resulting in serious injury or death.”

The FBI on December 17 updated members of Congress on the status of the pipe bomb investigation. A staffer who sat in on the briefing said the FBI offered "nothing more than a regurgitation of old news" and that members were "quite aggravated" about the lack of new information.

As Blaze Media has learned and continues to investigate, the FBI's description of the device as "viable" also appears to be untrue.

Despite congressional aides having given this information to Blaze Media as part of our extensive Capitol CCTV video investigations into the DNC pipe bomb incident, they have not yet revealed the name of the USCP plainclothes officer and how they came to know his identity.

Their investigations continue, as do ours.

Blaze Media has much more soon to come on the DNC pipe bomb story. We are pursuing the answers to the following questions:

• How did the Secret Service fail to find a bomb prior to their protectee’s arrival — a bomb that was seemingly purposefully placed the night before in a manner in which it was meant to be discovered?
• Why did operators in the Capitol Police Command Center deliberately redirect CCTV cameras away from the DNC pipe bomb investigation and detonation?
• Why did a Secret Service agent and MPD officer feel safe enough to finish their lunch before investigating the information about a bomb located only 15 feet away after a law enforcement officer revealed its location to them?
• Was the DNC pipe bomb really a “viable” device, despite never-before-seen video evidence to the contrary?

The answers to these questions will all be part of our continuing series on “The Truth About January 6.”

 

[Brian4Liberty]

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1747777065464803429

 

[oyarde]

An inoperable pipe bomb... would that be at that point, a pipe ?

a pipe with black powder that cant ignite meaning not a bomb. Propaganda that it was a bomb , it was merely made to appear as one. Fake , just like a candy cigarette is not a real cigarette. About as dangerous as a an unopened can of ajax.

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1748117563228483869

https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1748131636716146688

 

[Occam's Banana]

Secret Service Foreknowledge or Criminal Negligence? Damning New Evidence Surfaces In FBI’s January 6 “Pipe Bomb” Story
https://revolver.news/2024/01/secre...dence-surfaces-fbi-january-6-pipe-bomb-story/
{Darren J. Beattie | 18 January 2024}

[all emphasis in the original - OB]

Over three years have passed since January 6, 2021, and the truth of what really happened that day has never been more relevant. For the regime, the stakes involved in selling the official narrative of January 6 as a uniquely horrific domestic terror event are higher than ever. Such are the stakes that Biden’s crypt-keepers presumably injected him with the strongest stuff they had to keep the President conscious and standing upright for the duration of his hour and a half-long speech marking the anniversary of the day “we almost lost America.” And it makes sense. The ludicrous notion of January 6 as an “insurrection” has long served as the key pretext for the accelerated political weaponization of the national security state against Trump and his supporters. More recently, the still more ludicrous theory of Trump’s culpability for this “insurrection” has become the sham legal basis behind the attempt to throw him in prison and remove him from the ballots—all in the name of democracy, of course.

That the regime has invested so much in the “insurrection” story of January 6th helps to explain its commensurate hostility to anyone who challenges that narrative. This applies especially to our reporting on what we’ve coined the “Fedsurrection”—the elements of January 6 that overwhelmingly point toward government involvement. Last year, we reported on a case in which an FBI agent investigating January 6 crimes had his security clearance revoked and his loyalty to the United States questioned simply for sharing one of our articles with colleagues. A top Democrat lawyer teamed up with Ray Epps to sue or threaten to sue Revolver News, Tucker Carlson, and anyone who asks uncomfortable questions about certain events during January 6, which Epps, in his own words, “orchestrated.”

Thankfully, such intimidation efforts aren’t working—in fact, quite the opposite. The DOJ’s decision to charge Ray Epps with a wrist-slap misdemeanor nearly three years after January 6, 2021, for which he is to serve no jail time, strikes anyone who is remotely informed about the case as a desperate and sloppy attempt to rescue an unsalvageable narrative. Although Speaker Mike Johnson has not followed through on his promise to release 40,000 hours of January 6 footage, the 90 or so hours he has released have done a great deal to popularize and reinforce the public’s understanding of just how inaccurate the official version of January 6th is. We say this footage popularizes and reinforces the public’s understanding of the Fedsurrection, but it does not advance this understanding. New footage depicting Capitol Police opening the doors or ushering crowds in or footage of Capitol Police committing violence against protestors is great for spreading awareness, but it doesn’t tell us anything new; similar types of footage have been around for a long time.

The Most Important January 6th Video You Have Never Heard About

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Curiously enough, the Capitol did quietly release a damning short piece of footage that had gotten virtually no public attention, though it could very well be the breakthrough we need to definitively expose the phony January 6 “pipe bomb” story once and for all.

[Editor’s Note: This piece was published in password-protected form days ago, though originally embargoed, pending the publication this evening at 6:00 p.m. of an accompanying interview with Tucker Carlson on the pipe bomb [see this post - OB]. A piece published early yesterday afternoon by Steve Baker at the Blaze [see this post - OB], however, addressed the video in question along with confirming an important detail, which we will address below.]

The Capitol authorities were counting on no one knowing that this footage even exists, let alone understanding its significance, and put up tremendous resistance when Congressman Massie tried to make the footage public. Ultimately, it took a direct call from Kevin McCarthy to break the stonewall (and one can only imagine how much pressure McCarthy must have been under to make that call!). Courtesy of Congressman Massie’s efforts, the footage is available below. For a first viewing, we encourage the reader to skim the video to get a general idea. Make note of the man in the backpack going up to the police and secret service cars. It will likely turn out that identifying this man in the backpack will lead to the unraveling of one of the darkest and most scandalous government coverups in recent history.

Jan. 6, 2021 DNC Pipe Bomb Discovery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seHfgsPnalM
{RepThomasMassie | 20 July 2023}

I’m publicly releasing footage about the discovery of the pipe bomb at the DNC on 1/6. After 900 days, why won’t FBI Director Wray answer congressional questions about the case? Did they even interview the person who appears to have found the bomb?


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Let’s explain and digest the most important details depicted in the video above.

• At 1:05:27, a man with a backpack walks into view in the bottom right corner of the screen and proceeds to chat with officers on the driver’s side of a Metro PD SUV. The black SUV is a Secret Service vehicle protecting then-Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris, who was in the DNC building at the time (more on that later). The Metro PD vehicle was present as part of the Secret Service protection detail, as related to us by a high-level source. After some time, it appears that the backpack man is walking away from the driver’s seat window of the Metro PD vehicle, only to walk around to the passenger seat window and continue speaking with the Metro officers.

• Then, at 1:06:10, the man with the backpack walks over to the black Secret Service SUV. He chats for about 20 seconds and then walks back up the sidewalk, back past the benches where the pipe bomb was placed, and out of view. Then, at 1:07:29, a metro officer gets out of the Metro PD car. This is over a minute after the backpack gentleman left the frame and over two minutes after the backpack gentleman first approached the metro PD car.

• What is more remarkable than the fact that it took the Metro and Secret Service over two minutes to even bother getting out of their cars after being informed of a pipe bomb in the neighborhood is the astonishingly casual approach taken by these authorities in the minutes after the man with a backpack walks out of view of the camera. Reader, take a look if you would at the video from 1:07:27 to around 1:09:05 and note how casual and unperturbed both the Metro officers and Secret Service officers are, and ask yourself whether this is how you’d imagine the Secret Service would normally respond to a discovery of a bomb right outside the building housing their protectee, in this case vice president-elect Kamala Harris. Even if we assume that somehow the Secret Service and Metropolitan Police Department are wholly uninterested in the safety of their protectee, you would think they would at least get out of the vicinity for reasons of self-preservation. Quite the opposite—all of these officers are supremely comfortable standing and walking within spitting distance of the pipe bomb.

• Then, at around 1:09:12, the security camera in question turns to the park benches and zooms into the location where the pipe bomb is present. This means that by this time, the man with a backpack’s information had reached whoever was manning the Capitol Police security camera at the time. Below is a screenshot depicting that timestamp.
  
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• The scene that begins at 1:09:35 ought to be sufficient to cause a national scandal in its own right. Here we see several more secret service officers coming out, again casually standing and walking within spitting distance of the pipe bomb. At 1:09:41, we see a group of children cross the street and walk directly in front of the benches where the bomb is still sitting. The secret service agents don’t think to warn these children at all, but instead themselves walk right by the bench as well, without a care in the world! You have to see it to believe it.
  
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  A group of children and a secret service agent were just casually walking right by the pipe bomb. Mysteriously, the agent doesn’t seem concerned and doesn’t warn the children.
  

  

• After children pass the pipe bomb without being warned at all, the Secret Service officers stand around for about a minute until a Capitol Police officer walks right up to the pipe bomb and takes a picture of it at 1:10:16, giving a thumbs-up sign to the Metro and Secret Service agents a bit further down the sidewalk.
  
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The remainder of the available footage shows the original Metro PD car and Secret Service car leaving and another police car arriving at the scene.

Unfortunately, the video stops there. We are, however, told by several reliable sources with direct knowledge who have seen the extended security footage (not yet public) that shortly thereafter, authorities will respond with a bomb-safe robot that retrieves and “disables” the pipe bomb in question.

A number of deeply puzzling and disturbing questions arise from the video above. The most obvious question is what could possibly account for the casual, lackadaisical, utterly unperturbed demeanor and behavior of the Secret Service and Metro PD officers in question upon being informed of an explosive device right outside the building in which their protectee is housed, and, for that matter, within feet of the agents themselves. To emphasize the seriousness with which the government takes pipe bombs as potential terror devices, it is worth noting that the government officially considers pipe bombs “weapons of mass destruction.”

It is hard to imagine what conditions could account for such a casual, unconcerned reaction on the part of the Secret Service. As pointed out above, even if they are the worst protection detail in the world, willing to completely abandon protocol when apprised of a weapon of mass destruction dangerously close to their protectee, you’d think they’d at least be concerned for their own personal safety. This complete lack of concern indicates that these agents somehow knew or were utterly confident that the bomb was inert and posed no threat, but how could they possibly know that? How could the secret service and metro PD officers be so confident that the pipe bomb wouldn’t pose a danger to themselves, to their protectee, VP elect Kamala Harris, and to the children they cavalierly allowed to walk within feet of the explosive device, and yet somehow the bomb was considered dangerous enough to require a bomb-safe robot to “defuse” only minutes later? Troubling and damning questions indeed.

A Closer Look at the DNC Pipe Bomb Explodes the Official Narrative of January 6th

The observations presented above are scandalous and damning enough as a matter of self-contained analysis. When understood within the broader context of infinitesimally implausible facts surrounding the official version of events for the DNC and RNC pipe bombs, the situation becomes worse still. Revolver News’ assertion, based on the totality of our ground-breaking reporting, that the January 6 pipe bombs constitute one of the two smoking guns of the Fedsurrection (the other being Ray Epps) is more obviously true by the day.

So now let us consider the video presented and analyzed above in light of some of the other facts we know about the DNC pipe bomb. The video discussed above depicts the incredibly bizarre circumstances surrounding the “discovery” of the DNC pipe bomb after Metro PD and Secret Service are informed of its location by an unknown man in a backpack. Note that the man in the backpack walks up to the metro PD car at 1:05 p.m. on January 6th. According to both official reports and DNC surveillance footage the FBI released to the public, the pipe bomber planted the DNC bomb the previous evening, at around 8:00 p.m. on the evening of January 5th. Below is a time-stamped screenshot of surveillance footage depicting the suspected pipe bomber sitting at the benches (the reader will recognize these benches from the video discussed above) getting ready to plant the pipe bomb by the bench at 7:52 p.m.

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Let’s say the pipe bomber planted the bomb at 8:00 p.m. That would mean that the pipe bomb sat by the bench outside the DNC building for over 17 hours, undiscovered. This is rather remarkable considering that the bomb was not carefully hidden but placed fairly conspicuously next to the leg of a DNC bench. Below is a photo of the DNC pipe bomb—presumably the photo taken by the Capitol Police officer as depicted in the video we analyzed above.

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It is also important to remember that this is a very high-traffic area, with enough foot traffic that there was a scooter for pedestrians just feet away from where the bomb was planted. The screenshot below is from the DNC surveillance footage provided to the public by the FBI. Note the scooter, the pipe bomber, and the arrow pointing toward where the pipe bomb was discovered.

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For reference, we note that a scooter is also visible in the Capitol Police surveillance footage depicting the discovery of the pipe bomb. Note the scooter in the same position next to the Capitol Police officer taking a photo of the newly discovered pipe bomb.

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As we revealed in a previous report on the pipe bomb, a Google walkthrough we conducted depicts a DNC security guard stationed just feet away from where the pipe bomb was planted:

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Note that the DNC security guard is stationed right at the garage entrance to the DNC building, where the Metro PD and Secret Service SUV were parked in the video depicting the discovery of the pipe bomb. Below is a screenshot for easy reference.

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When we discussed the Capitol Police video depicting the discovery of the pipe bomb, we observed the bizarre fact that the Secret Service agents seemed entirely unconcerned with the revelation that there was a pipe bomb within feet of themselves and their protectee, who was inside the DNC building (not to mention the children they allowed to walk within feet of the bomb). Perhaps equally bizarre as the fact that the Secret Service was unconcerned with the bomb when informed of it is the fact that the Secret Service hadn’t discovered the bomb already in their sweep of the building before Kamala Harris’ entry.

The Guardian:

Kamala Harris, then vice-president-elect, drove within yards of a pipe bomb left outside the Democratic National Committee on January 6 2021 and remained inside for nearly two hours before the bomb was found, it was reported on Monday.

Harris’s proximity to the bomb was known previously, but not how close or for how long. CNN reported the new details in the case, part of alarming events in Washington on the day Congress met to certify Joe Biden’s election victory over Donald Trump.

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The White House and Harris’s office did not comment on CNN’s pipe bomb report. A Secret Service spokesperson told CNN that “in order to maintain operational security”, it did not comment on protection arrangements.

CNN said a “law enforcement source” said the Secret Service “swept the interior of the building, the driveway, parking deck and entrances and exits prior to [Harris’s] arrival” and Harris was “evacuated using an alternate route away from the bomb”.
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Reports also indicate the pipe bomb had live explosive material.

The Washington Post (archive link):

The device was considered “live,” meaning it contained viable explosive material, according to Steven Blando, a spokesman for the Washington Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. It was disarmed at the site, Blando told The Post.

Around 1:15 p.m., officials have said, the second bomb was discovered several blocks away next to a bench outside the DNC. It, too, was live and was disarmed on site, Blando said.
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This would mean that not only did the Secret Service have to overlook the pipe bomb on a visual inspection during a sweep of the DNC premises, but that the Secret Service’s bomb sniffing dogs had to have mysteriously gotten COVID on January 6th such that they weren’t able to sniff out explosive material just feet away. How remarkable.

Let us summarize these findings. Before the man in the backpack discovered and reported the pipe bomb to secret service and Metro PD at 1:05 PM on January 6th, the pipe bomb had been sitting right at the foot of a DNC bench for over 17 hours, not discovered by motorists, pedestrians, scooter users, the DNC security guard, or the Secret Service of the United States.

For that matter, no pedestrian or DNC employee who may have sat on the bench to have a cup of coffee spotted the pipe bomb during that 17-hour period. It is interesting in light of this observation that in the Capitol Police video depicting the discovery of the pipe bomb, the camera zooms into the bench next to which the pipe bomb was placed, and the bench clearly has some type of drink on it, as though someone had just drunk coffee on the bench. It is worth noting that January 6th was a very windy day, and the chances of an empty coffee cup remaining on the bench for long without getting blown away are quite low. It is very unlikely that that coffee cup was laying on the bench for more than an hour before this footage was taken, and it is probably much less than an hour. Has there been any forensic investigation of this coffee cup? Could it have been the man with the backpack’s coffee?

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To compound the strangeness of it all, recall that Kamala Harris covered up her presence at the DNC building on January 6th for almost a year. For nearly a year, Kamala led the media to believe that she was in the Capitol during the so-called siege. Even the Department of Justice took this false understanding for granted and mentioned Kamala’s alleged presence and evacuation from the Capitol during the “siege” to add a sense of gravitas to several of its indictments. It turns out Kamala was not at the Capitol as it was being evacuated on the 6th, but rather at the DNC building while the allegedly live pipe bomb was still right outside. Why on earth would Kamala Harris keep her presence in the DNC building a secret? It would seem like the story of the first woman of color Vice President elect in history coming within feet of the deadly pipe bombs of the January 6 insurrection would be a headline that both Kamala and the regime media would be interested in milking for all it is worth. How strange is it, come to think of it, that in Joe Biden’s big January 6 anniversary speech he neglects to mention that his own Vice President narrowly lost her life to a MAGA pipe bomb? Could Kamala have covered up her presence at the DNC in order to keep attention away from the fact that the Secret Service was at the DNC building and thus keep the public in the dark about the fact that the Secret Service missed the pipe bombs in their sweep and reacted with suspicious nonchalance when ultimately informed of the bomb? Or is there a still more sinister explanation for this otherwise inexplicable cover-up?

The fact that the DNC pipe bomb sat in a fairly conspicuous spot undiscovered for over 17 hours by pedestrians, motorists, the DNC security guard, and the Secret Service raises the question as to whether the pipe bomb was actually planted when the FBI and the FBI’s publicly released surveillance footage suggest it was planted. This question caused our investigative team to take a closer look at the DNC surveillance footage released by the FBI. We were able to show definitively not only that the surveillance footage had been tampered with, given that its frame rate of 1.6 frames per second is vastly below the industry minimum, but we were able to show definitively that the FBI is in possession of it, but for whatever reason they chose not to make public surveillance footage that would make it clear whether the pipe bomb suspect planted the bomb when they said he or she did.

If the reader missed our original reporting on this question or simply wants a refresher, please see the video below presenting our case that the footage is tampered with given its frame rate:

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And here is our video summarizing the proof that the FBI is withholding critical footage that would depict the pipe bomber actually planting the bomb:

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June 2023 marked an unexpected development in the pipe bomb case. Steven D’Antuono, the former head of the FBI’s Washington Field Office (WFO) and head of the pipe bomb investigation, agreed to testify before the judiciary committee shortly after his suspicious retirement from government. Incidentally, D’Antuono oversaw the disgraced entrapment operation known as the Michigan kidnapping plot as well.

Congressman Massie compiled a number of questions based on Revolver News’ coverage of the pipe bomb story. As to the question of the corruption and withholding of surveillance footage, Antuono could only shrug his shoulders and admit it was strange. When asked whether the FBI had attempted to identify the pipe bomber using the standard geo-fencing capabilities it has used to identify other January 6th participants, D’Antuono’s answer was remarkable: the FBI did attempt to pull geo-fencing data, but the telecom company reported that the data was corrupted for the specific request related to the pipe bomber. As to whether the FBI attempted to use other geo-fencing capabilities to identify the pipe bomber (surely the government has this data), D’Antuono couldn’t say, other than to beg the judiciary members not to entertain any “conspiracy theories.”

Still more relevant to this article is D’Antuono’s baffling answer concerning the discovery of the DNC pipe bomb. D’Antuono claims not only to not know the identity of the man with the backpack who discovered the DNC pipe bomb, but D’Antuono couldn’t even say for certain whether this individual had even been interviewed by the FBI, despite acknowledging that the individuals who discovered the pipe bombs would have been considered to be suspects, at least initially. What a remarkable thing for the former head of the pipe bomb investigation to say!

To understand why it is so critical to identify the man in the backpack and why D’Antuono would say that those who discovered the respective DNC and RNC pipe bombs would be suspects, we must once again revisit the timeline of the DNC pipe bomb’s discovery. Note that in the Capitol Police video, the man with a backpack appears in the frame and approaches the Metro PD and Secret Service vehicles at 1:05 PM on January 6th. We provide a screenshot of the surveillance footage, with timestamp, below:

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Previously, we had emphasized the fact that by 1:05, the time at which the DNC bomb was discovered, the bomb had been lying by the DNC bench for over 17 hours unnoticed. But something very noteworthy happened in that 17-hour time span, and it happened, curiously enough, a mere 15 minutes before the backpacker reported the pipe bomb to the officials in the Metro PD and Secret Service cars—and that is the discovery of the first pipe bomb behind a trash bin in a back alley next to the Capitol Hill Club.

According to official reports, the first pipe bomb was discovered at 12:40 p.m. by a random pedestrian behind a trash can in a back alley by the Capitol Hill Club. This random pedestrian, Karlin Younger, reported the bomb to a security official at the Capitol Hill Club, who in turn alerted the Capitol Police, who began responding to the first pipe bomb at 12:50 p.m.

This means that the man with the backpack in the Capitol Police video walked up to the Metro PD car and Secret Service car to report his discovery of the DNC pipe bomb a mere 15 minutes after the first pipe bomb was discovered and reported by a random pedestrian (we’re told) near the Capitol Hill Club. On the one hand, if we leave aside the bizarre fact that the DNC bomb sat undiscovered for over 17 hours, it would kind of make sense that the DNC pipe bomb would finally be discovered so shortly after the first pipe bomb. One could somewhat imagine a scenario in which the Capitol Police sent out an emergency alert that a bomb was discovered near the RNC building, and Capitol Police, perhaps local Metro Police, and others frantically searched potentially high-target buildings for additional bombs, and that this somehow led to the man in the backpack discovering the pipe bomb at the DNC.

A moment’s reflection reveals several difficulties with this scenario. First, let us assume, for the sake of argument, that the Capitol Police, Metro PD, and other agencies responded urgently and put in a call for authorities to frantically search the DNC and perhaps other buildings for explosives. It is unclear why the DNC building would be one of the buildings chosen to be frantically searched. Indeed, it is not immediately intuitive why authorities would assume that just because a bomb was planted at the RNC, there would be one at the DNC, notwithstanding the high value Washington, D.C., places on bipartisanship. In fact, the whole parallelism between an “RNC pipe bomb” and a “DNC pipe bomb” is largely a retroactive fiction. As mentioned, the first pipe bomb was discovered behind a trash bin in an alley by the Capitol Hill Club. To be sure, the Capitol Hill Club is right next to the RNC building, but there was no reason for anyone to think of this as the “RNC bomb” in the way that the bomb discovered right outside of the DNC building would naturally be thought of as a bomb planted at the DNC. Only after the DNC bomb was discovered did the convenient parallelism between an “RNC bomb and a DNC bomb” emerge. In short, while there may have been a general alert put out after the discovery of the first pipe bomb, there was simply no intuitive reason for authorities to assume that there would be a second bomb at the DNC building in such a way that would explain an intensified and targeted search. Furthermore, there is no such public account suggesting that somehow some officer assumed, for whatever reason, that the DNC building was at risk because there was a bomb found near the RNC building.

Perhaps most importantly, the Capitol Hill surveillance footage of the DNC depicts zero sense of urgency whatsoever before the man with the backpack approaches the Metro PD and Secret Service cars. The surveillance footage is simply not consistent with the idea that there is an urgent scramble to find a possible explosive device. In fact, as we pointed out earlier in this article, the surveillance footage shows a bizarre and damning lack of urgency or concern even after the secret service is informed of the presence of the DNC bomb!

But if the discovery of the DNC pipe bomb was not related to some special urgency to look for an explosive device at the DNC in the immediate aftermath of the first “RNC” pipe bomb being reported, we are faced with a nearly impossible coincidence. This would require us to accept not only that the DNC pipe bomb somehow lay out in the open for over 17 hours undiscovered (by motorists, pedestrians, the DNC security guard, and Secret Service), but that the man in the backpack just happened to discover the DNC bomb (that had been laying undiscovered for 17 hours) barely 15 minutes after the first pipe bomb was reported. This is a very strange and remarkable coincidence indeed, and it underscores the critical need to identify and question the man in the backpack to learn more about the circumstances surrounding the discovery of the DNC pipe bomb.

The RNC Pipe Bomb, the “Diversion Theory,” and a Failed Narrative

The notion that the DNC pipe bomb would be sitting out by the DNC bench for over 17 hours, undiscovered by pedestrians, motorists, DNC security, or the Secret Service, only to be discovered by our mysterious backpack man scarcely 15 minutes after the first “RNC bomb” was discovered is a remarkable coincidence indeed. But we cannot fully appreciate how utterly bizarre and implausible the official story is without recalling the circumstances surrounding the discovery of the first “RNC” pipe bomb.

According to the official reports, the first pipe bomb, the “RNC pipe bomb,” was discovered by a random pedestrian called Karlin Younger at 12:40 p.m. on January 6th. Younger reported that when she stumbled upon the pipe bomb behind a trash bin in a back alley, the bomb was equipped with a timer whose dial was stuck on 20 minutes, as though to convey the impression the bomb was going to go off in 20 minutes.

Madison Magazine (archive link):

At noon on Wednesday, Jan. 6, Karlin Younger, working from home in Washington, D.C., decided to use the lunch hour to do laundry.

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Even though she’s now in D.C., Younger has still worked remotely since the pandemic. Her apartment is in Washington’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, just a couple of blocks from the Capitol itself.

To reach the laundry room, Younger must walk out the front of her building and walk around to the back via an alleyway that’s shared with the Republican National Committee building, which is located at 310 First St. Southeast.

“It’s an old city block with the buildings flush together,” Younger says. She started her laundry, returned to her apartment, and then around 12:40 p.m. went back out to put her clothes in the dryer.

Younger closed the back gate and as she did so, looked down at what she thought was a piece of garbage or recycling intended for the cans that sit near the gate.

Then she looked a little closer.

“It was right next to the garbage can,” she says. “I saw a tangle of wires. I looked closer and saw a six-inch pipe capped on both ends. Then I saw a timer that was stuck on the number 20. It was a radial dial.”

Younger peered closer. Was it 20 seconds ticking down?

“Thankfully, it was 20 minutes showing on the dial,” she says.
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Doing the math and adding the 20 minutes to 12:40, at the moment of discovery, the bomb was reportedly configured to look like it was going to go off at 1:00 p.m., the exact time that the election certification process was to begin in Congress. Think about that for a second. Like the DNC bomb, the RNC bomb was planted on the evening of January 5th, at approximately 8:30 p.m. That means that the RNC bomb lay hidden in a back alley behind a trash can for over 16 hours, whereupon it was discovered by a random pedestrian at the precise minute so as to convey the impression that it was set to go off at 1:00 p.m. The discovery of the RNC bomb was not only perfectly synchronized to the certification proceeding; it was also perfectly synchronized to the initial and decisive attack on the West perimeter of the Capitol—the infamous “Ray Epps Breach,” described in ground-breaking detail in another of Revolver News’ investigative pieces.

Indeed, Capitol Police began responding to the pipe bomb Karlin Younger reported at 12:50 p.m., just three minutes before the famous breach of the bike rack barricade on the west perimeter of the Capitol depicted below:

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And so we see that the RNC bomb lay undiscovered for over 16 hours and was eventually discovered in such a manner as to be nearly exactly synchronized not only with the 1:00 p.m. certification proceeding but with the initial attack on the west perimeter of the Capitol at 12:53 p.m.

Such was the timing of the RNC bomb’s discovery that the former head of the Capitol Police, Steven Sund, believed the bombs were never intended to go off but rather to divert Capitol Police resources from the attack on the Capitol, with which it was nearly perfectly synchronized. The theory that the pipe bombs were never intended to go off receives strong support from the fact that both devices were equipped with hour-long mechanical kitchen timers.

CBS:

The FBI said the bombs were placed outside the RNC and DNC the night before the attack, between 7:30 and 8:30 p.m. January 5. According to a source familiar with the investigation, the FBI has been reviewing hundreds of videos taken around that time.

According to a report obtained by CBS News, the bombs contained only one method of detonation — a 60-minute kitchen timer. The report — which was written by the National Explosives Task Force, a multi-agency group that coordinates explosive expertise for law enforcement and intelligence agencies — suggested there was no evidence of a second or remote detonation method such as a cell phone.
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While we’re at it, by the way, it’s about time for Congress to subpoena access to the National Explosives Task Force on the pipe bombs.

Below is a photograph of the RNC pipe bomb with the mechanical timer clearly visible for reference:

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The fact that the pipe bombs were equipped with mechanical one-hour timers with no remote detonation capability has significant implications, considering they were planted on the evening of January 5th. It is hard to see what the pipe bomber would have gotten out of planting bombs at around 8 p.m. that were set to go off in an hour at 9:00 p.m. This would have simply meant a little explosion in a back alley in the quiet hours of the evening. In order to have the desired diversionary effect, the bombs would either have to go off close to the attack on the Capitol (which would be impossible given the latest they could go off would be around 9 p.m. on the 5th) or be discovered at a time that was fairly closely synchronized to the attack on the Capitol at 12:53 p.m.

If either the DNC or RNC pipe bombs were discovered too early or too late, it could ruin the diversion effect. For instance, if the DNC bomb were discovered earlier on the morning of the 6th, that could have the effect of heightening security around the Capitol rather than diverting resources from it. Similarly, if the bombs were discovered too late after the attack on the Capitol, there would be no diversionary effect. We repeat: in order for the pipe bombs to have a diversionary effect, they’d have to be discovered at a time that was fairly closely synchronized with the attack on the Capitol.

But how could the pipe bomber have counted on random individuals or law enforcement discovering the bombs within that narrow timeframe? Is the pipe bomber just the luckiest person in the world that the first pipe bomb was sitting behind a trash can for over 16 hours only to be discovered by a random pedestrian just minutes before the initial attack on the Capitol? To add to his or her luck, the DNC bomb was not prematurely discovered in such a way that would foil the diversionary plans, but rather sat out in the open for 17 hours before it too was coincidentally discovered as the attack on the Capitol was unfolding, no more than 15 minutes after the first pipe bomb was discovered!

The infinitesimally implausible coincidences that would have to occur in order for this to be the case simply reinforce the importance of the individuals who discovered the pipe bombs under such circumstances. Under any circumstances, the people who discovered the bombs would be suspects; this is Steven D’Antuono’s position, not ours. And we would imagine this would be all the more so given the remarkable coincidences surrounding the discovery of both the DNC and RNC bombs and the near-perfect synchronization of their discovery with the unfolding attack on the Capitol.

And so we have come full circle. It is simply imperative that we identify the man in the backpack who alerts the Secret Service and Metro PD to the DNC bomb and find out how he came to discover the bomb and why the Secret Service was wholly unperturbed by the information, to the point of allowing children to walk right past the explosives.

We mentioned above that, as this article was embargoed pending the publication of Revolver News’ Darren Beattie’s interview with Tucker Carlson on this piece, the Blaze published a piece discussing the video in question and the man in the backpack. Although the man with the backpack’s identity has not yet been revealed, The Blaze’s Steve Baker was able to confirm that this individual was a plain-clothed officer working for the Capitol Police. This is an interesting discovery, especially in combination with some other relevant data points. Multiple sources have informed us that the first responder to the first “RNC” pipe bomb was a Capitol Hill Club security officer who had previously been with the Capitol Police. Given that the first responder to the first pipe bomb was a former Capitol Police officer and the man with the backpack was a plain clothes (undercover) Capitol Police officer, it is speculative, although plausible, that the link between this former Capitol Police security officer and the plain clothes Capitol Police officer with the backpack is the link between the remarkably coincidental discovery of the RNC bomb and the remarkably coincidental discovery of the DNC bomb.

As for Karlin Younger, the random pedestrian who randomly discovered the RNC bomb under remarkably coincidental circumstances, the pipe bomb investigation might benefit from interviewing her once more. Was she ever a suspect? As we might infer, she would have been given D’Antuono’s remark that the people who discovered the bombs would be suspects, at least initially. If Younger was a suspect, on what basis was she ruled out?

In light of all of these coincidences, it is interesting to note Younger’s current place of employment: Pendulum. Pendulum is a company staffed with DOD, DARPA, and CIA alums that does business with the government to “combat misinformation online.” Pendulum has so far released reports on Election Fraud, Covid Vaccine Misinformation, and, of course, QAnon Domestic Extremism.

We wonder if Pendulum would consider our reporting on the pipe bomb to be dangerous misinformation, but more on that very soon. Stay tuned.