{"id":1369198,"date":"2022-03-10T13:06:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T18:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1369198"},"modified":"2022-03-10T13:10:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T18:10:59","slug":"whistleblower-fbi-is-just-now-asking-basic-questions-about-jan-6-pipe-bombs-a-year-into-its-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whistleblower-fbi-is-just-now-asking-basic-questions-about-jan-6-pipe-bombs-a-year-into-its-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Whistleblower: FBI Is Just Now Asking Basic Questions About Jan. 6 Pipe Bombs \u2014 A Year Into Its Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhistleblower-fbi-is-just-now-asking-basic-questions-about-jan-6-pipe-bombs-a-year-into-its-investigation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1369198&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/24123110718_526f17ffcf_k.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A senior FBI special agent has sounded the alarm on the bureau\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/05\/is-the-fbi-ever-going-to-get-around-to-finding-the-jan-6-pipe-bomber-or-nah\/\">investigation<\/a> into the pipe bombs that were placed outside the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee buildings the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, suggesting that the investigation has been a low priority and made no real progress.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/republicans-judiciary.house.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-09-JDJ-to-Wray-re-pipe-bombs-case70.pdf\">letter<\/a> sent on Wednesday from Rep. Jim Jordan, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, to FBI Director Christopher Wray, the FBI agent filed a whistleblower disclosure about the pipe bomb investigation \u2014 an investigation the Associated Press had <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/riots-0306b74458a99c6462333a9ee4779716\">characterized<\/a> as \u201cone of the highest-priority investigations for the FBI and the Justice Department.\u201d The agent alleged that on Feb. 7, 2022, more than a year after the bombs were planted, the bureau\u2019s Washington Field Office asked its other field offices \u201cto canvass all confidential human sources nationwide for information about the individual and the crime.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The canvass should \u201cinclude sources reporting on all [types of] threats,\u201d the message from Washington to the other FBI field offices requested, because the bomber\u2019s \u201cmotive and ideology remain unknown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe special agent explained that the [Washington Field Office] request was \u2018unusual\u2019 because it was transmitted more than a year after the FBI had begun the investigation, and it raises questions about the progress and extent of the FBI\u2019s investigation,\u201d Jordan\u2019s letter said.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan also noted that the FBI failed to fully answer questions raised in early September by Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla., about the status of the pipe bomb probe. According to Jordan, the FBI \u201chas not fully responded to Rep. Posey\u2019s request, explaining that it was exclusively providing information to the partisan Democrat-led Select Committee investigating the events of January 6, 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like the sham impeachment of Donald Trump, the Jan. 6 committee that the FBI is hiding behind has proved to be nothing more than a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/06\/the-jan-6-select-committee-is-exploitative-theater-and-must-end-now\/\">partisan show trial<\/a> by Democrats, who excluded legitimate Republican representation from the committee, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/11\/10\/j6-committee-misleading-witnesses-about-republican-staff-presence\/\">misled witnesses<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/12\/15\/during-january-6-hearing-schiff-doctored-text-messages-between-mark-meadows-and-rep-jim-jordan\/\">fabricated evidence<\/a> including <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/12\/21\/jan-6-committee-cooks-up-another-misleading-text-to-demonize-gop-colleagues\/\">multiple text messages<\/a>. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has also used her committee as a smokescreen to distract from her own failures to secure the Capitol, as reports show Capitol Police were <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/08\/report-capitol-police-were-severely-unprepared-to-handle-events-of-jan-6-2021\/\">woefully unprepared<\/a> to handle the events of Jan. 6.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FBI\u2019s decision to provide information on a partisan basis is antithetical to the FBI\u2019s purported impartiality and it further erodes public confidence in the FBI\u2019s senior leadership,\u201d Jordan wrote to the FBI director.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the FBI\u2019s exclusive cooperation with Democrats, the bureau\u2019s investigation of the Jan. 6 riot and the events surrounding it has been dubious since the beginning. In fact, evidence suggests FBI agents acted as provocateurs in what became a rowdy demonstration. The New York Times\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/25\/us\/politics\/capitol-riot-fbi-informant.html\">reported<\/a>\u00a0in September that federal agents were part of the crowd that stormed the Capitol. Newsweek\u00a0then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/exclusive-secret-commandos-shoot-kill-authority-were-capitol-1661330\">revealed<\/a>\u00a0in January that secret commandos with \u201cshoot-to-kill\u201d authority were also present.<\/p>\n<p>During a congressional hearing in January, the FBI <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/11\/fbi-refuses-to-say-how-many-informants-were-involved-in-jan-6-violence\/\">refused to answer questions<\/a> about their potential involvement on Jan. 6 the year prior, including questions about Ray Epps. According\u00a0to October <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/2021\/10\/meet-ray-epps-the-fed-protected-provocateur-who-appears-to-have-led-the-very-first-1-6-attack-on-the-u-s-capitol\/\">reporting<\/a> from Revolver, Epps, who was captured on video encouraging people to go inside the Capitol, disappeared from the FBI\u2019s Capitol Violence Most Wanted List with no explanation over the summer.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Kylee Zempel is an assistant editor at The Federalist. She previously worked as the copy editor for the Washington Examiner magazine and as an editor and producer at National Geographic. She holds a B.S. in Communication Arts\/Speech and an A.S. in Criminal Justice and writes on topics including feminism and gender issues, religious liberty, and criminal justice. Follow her on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kyleezempel\">@kyleezempel<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior FBI special agent has sounded the alarm on the bureau\u2019s investigation into the pipe bombs that were placed outside the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee buildings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1369198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1369198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1369198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1369198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}