J6 pipe bomb evidence was just 'sitting there' during Biden era, Bondi says
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Via: vic-eldred • 11 months ago • 35 commentsBy: Ashley Oliver (Fox News)
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Department of Justice leaders criticized the Biden administration for failing to achieve what they accomplished on Thursday by arresting a suspect after pipe bombs were found near the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Attorney General Pam Bondi said during a press conference announcing the arrest of Brian Cole Jr. that existing evidence led to the FBI's breakthrough in a cold case that had "languished" for nearly five years.
"What I will tell you is that evidence has been sitting there collecting dust," Bondi said. "This wasn't a new tip. It wasn't some new evidence. It was the hard work of President Trump's administration."
Bondi said federal investigators were able to identify Cole after spending months "sifting through evidence that had been sitting at the FBI with the Biden administration." She said bringing charges against Cole was not a result of any new witnesses or leads but rather "good, diligent police work and prosecutorial work."
Court papers unsealed Thursday revealed that bank records showing purchases of pipe bomb material and cell phone tower data were used to identify Cole. The suspect is now in custody facing charges of using explosives, with more charges possible, and he is expected to make his first court appearance Friday.
Surveillance footage released by the FBI showed an unidentified suspect in a hoodie planting two explosive devices near the Republican and Democratic National Committees' headquarters on the night of Jan. 5, 2021.
Authorities said the devices were "viable" and could have detonated. The first one was discovered by a woman in an alleyway doing her laundry, investigative reports said. She immediately reported her finding to the police, prompting a search that led to the discovery of the second bomb, the reports said.
A congressional report revealed that the FBI during the Biden administration began "diverting resources" away from the investigation at the end of February 2021, after less than two months.
"In the immediate aftermath of January 6, the FBI's case team worked aggressively to cultivate and pursue leads toward apprehending the pipe bomb suspect," the report stated, adding the inquiry might have fizzled because of a lack of credible leads.
The yearslong mystery left many in Trump's base raising questions and theories about the case. Speculation centered on the discovery of the bombs timed up with the riot on Jan. 6 and the security failures that allowed top politicians, including Vice President Kamala Harris, to unwittingly come into proximity with the explosives.
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino was among the top voices promoting the theory, before he joined the bureau, that the Biden administration was hiding evidence about the case and that planting the bombs was an "inside job." DOJ leaders have given no information on the suspect's motive and said the investigation is in an early stage.
At a news conference, Bongino said he made the pipe bomb case a top priority after he told Fox News in May the bureau was "closing in" on suspects.
"I spoke with Ms. Bondi very early, maybe day two, and I said, 'We're going to get this guy.' She said, 'Yes, you are.' And we did," Bongino said Thursday.
"You're not going to walk into our capital city, put down two explosive devices and walk off in the sunset. Not going to happen," Bongino said. "There was no way he was getting away."
Ashley Oliver is a reporter for Fox News Digital and FOX Business, covering the Justice Department and legal affairs. Email story tips to ashley.oliver@fox.com.
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Why did Wray's FBI drop the ball on this case?
Pam Bondi's word is worthless.
This entire administration can't be trusted. The fish rots from the head down. The amount of gaslighting coming from Bondi and everyone else in this dishonest criminal administration is mind blowing. You simply can't trust a single thing they say.
Proven to be much credible than anybody from the Biden Administration. They found this guy using data that the Biden DOJ had just sat on.
I read an article this morning that stated this case will be dropped fro. the MSM lineup quickly because the guy was a black Biden supporter and an anarchist, most likely ANTIFA.
Hell, even Tapper was so giddy he thought the person was white, he even announced the suspect was white only minutes before CNN put up a picture of a .........black guy.
I heard the same thing. I think the fact he's reportedly a Biden supporter and ANTIFA forced the Biden FBI to run away from this investigation.
I saw that this morning. Nothing like the left getting simple shit, like the skin color of a suspect, wrong. They still think the narco boats are "fishing boats".
For those that are going to try to call bullshit:
This is, primarily, a leftist web site, so...
Not a single member of this administration can tell the truth any more than Trump can. Shit does tend to roll downhill.
The reason why Tapper made that assumption is because during the segment that he made the claim, they were showing scenes of an upper class neighborhood in Northern Virgina. Most liberals do not accept that blacks own homes in their neighborhoods, nor do they believe they can get IDs or know where to vote.
He saw the video, and in his mind, said...there is no way it's a black guy.
They didn't. 3 million lines of data to pour over and even the field office said they have been working on the case for 5 years. Bondi is a lying partisan hack.
Results and reports say otherwise. But let's keep going with the emotion driven, fictional narrative.
I am going by what the far right wing presser folks had to say.
... so says the maga twat that claimed there was no epstein files only months earlier.
since the bomber is a self-professed 2020 election denying trump supporter, POS/POTUS will undoubtedly pardon him. especially if the bomber isn't included in the previous blanket pardon of J6 maga terrorists.
If he is a "Trump supporter", why would he leave a bomb at the GOP headquarters?
A bigger question is if he was triggered by the 2020 election, how is it that he purchased the bomb parts in 2019?
gee, I don't know and I'm done trying to apply logic to maga actions. I guess it's detonation could have created a slight delay in the bombers eventual trump pardon, if the first one doesn't hold up in court ...
You should have stopped there. It would have been accurate
Have you not noticed, Trumpers have been shown to be not too bright on so many things...?
As I recall, they were wanting to hang the actual Vice President of the United States that day. Was he not part of the GOP ? He WAS the Republican Vice President of the United States and many Trump supporters, there by Trumps invitation" it will be wild" and if you don't march down there "you won't have a country" , Trumpers were there in force to do whatever it took to keep Trump, UNLAWFULLY, in the White House!
Wasn't Trump claiming the election, ONLY IF HE LOST, was rigged in 2019?
Perhaps he was practicing on making Pipe Bombs, cause you never know when you will be called by the potUS to disobey the Constitution, do you ..../?
woooooeeeeee the projection is strong with this one.
so you are an instance of rejection of alleged projection...?
Did the January 6th crowd wish to elevate or decapitate
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Huh?
Is that you Atilla...?
Perhaps Wray's FBI discovered something that didn't fit their little narrative and they lost interest in the investigation. The odd part is that the very methods used to go out and identify every human being at the Jan 6th protest would have solved the pipe bomber case.
Of course it's all about the what they wanted to push. They were able to track down 1500 people in a very short time but somehow couldn't put together a cellphone used several times in the vicinity of the RNC and DNC at the time the bombs were placed.
Do you think it had something to do with Biden calling Jan 6th a "White Supremacist riot?"
I think that has some to do with it. I can't rule out Biden that they didn't want it exposed that this clown was somebody who had leftist ideologies and reportedly supported ANTIFA. They had a narrative to push and did everything to get it out there.
Yes, this kid really didn't come across as a white supremacist.
He did come across as going against the narrative as a whole.
No point in trying to track down terrorist bombers when there are praying grandmas and trespassing seniors to hunt down says the Biden FBI.
Don't forget parents at school board meetings.
Did the Biden administration drop the ball or dodge the ball? Brian Cole Jr. appears to have been a lone wolf. Or, perhaps, he was something else.
It is still incomprehensible that the intelligence apparatus was caught flat-footed by the Jan. 6th riot. The fact that Trump was still President seems to have been less an obstacle to security but rather more politically useful to the narrative. What followed the riot can only substantiate the perception that the J6 riot was allowed to happen without interference. Where does Brian Cole Jr. fit into that perception?
Were the pipe bombs intended to be icing on the gotcha cake?
So now they question is why did the Biden DOJ sit on their hands with all that information?
Hmmm, does the pardons issued by Trump for the other Jan 6th protestors be used here? This paragraph in particular..
Patel, Bongino, and Bondi are all walking on eggshells around the Commander in Queef. The saved this one in their back pocket, not even wanting to further investigate it because they knew in their hearts that the guy was maga, and that fact would blow up all their bullshit narratives about him to date.