House GOP criticizes security failures, raises questions about missing suspect in J6 pipe bomb case

The House committees probing security failures of Jan. 6 released a report Thursday into two pipe bombs planted on Capitol Hill on the morning of the Capitol riot – finding the FBI failed to properly secure the area in which the bombs were found.

The riot occurred on the same the day Congress was certifying the results of the 2022 presidential election, and law enforcement had advanced information about the potential for violence at the Capitol or other criminal behavior, Just the News previously reported.

The FBI also has surveillance video showing a likely suspect whom they have yet find. 

“A serious, and largely overlooked, security failure on January 6 was the delayed discovery of both pipe bombs and the chaotic response of federal law enforcement after their discovery,” reads the report, released by subcommittees led by GOP Chairmen Barry Loudermilk and Thomas Massie.

The report also concluded: “Nearly four years later, federal law enforcement has yet to identity the individual responsible for planting the pipe bombs, which remains one of the unanswered questions from that day.

You can read the report below: 

The pipe bombs planted at the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic parties on the morning of Jan. 6, 2021, remain one of the biggest mysteries – and security failures – during the events of that day. 

The report criticizes federal law enforcement for failing to initially discover the bombs, then improperly securing the scene, putting others in danger, including high-ranking public officials. 

For example, footage released by Loudermilk’s subcommittee showed the Secret Service brought the-Vice President-elect Kamala Harris into a garage at the Democratic National Committee headquarters on Jan. 6, just a few yards from where a pipe bomb had been planted, Just the News reported last year. 

The congressmen also found that the FBI pursued multiple leads into potential suspects, but have still failed to identify the individual captured on surveillance footage scoping out the party headquarters and planting the devices. 

According to the report, the FBI obtained leads on several persons of interest early in the investigation, but “refused to provide the Subcommittees with additional information about these investigative leads.”