If you planted a bomb outside a federal building and then just walked away, odds are you’d be in a Supermax facility faster than Hunter Biden can forget a laptop. But apparently, if you’re the mysterious pipe bomber from January 6 — the one who dropped not one, but two suspicious devices outside both major political party headquarters — you just vanish into thin air.
Four years, $500,000 in reward money, and an alphabet soup of law enforcement later, and we still don’t have a name, a motive, or even a suspect. And now, thanks to some fresh security footage, we have a new twist in the mystery — one that smells more like a political cover-up than a cold case.
According to new video uncovered by Rep. Barry Loudermilk’s House Judiciary subcommittee, the pipe bomber’s first stop wasn’t the DNC or RNC. No, the person in the gray hoodie made a curious detour to the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Institute building on the evening of January 5, 2021. Video shows the suspect kneeling near a bush on the property — not exactly standard sightseeing behavior. No bomb was found there, but that makes the stop even more suspicious. What were they doing? Dropping off lunch for a friend? Practicing yoga?
Let’s be clear: this is the first confirmed stop the bomber made. The FBI’s official narrative until now claimed the suspect merely passed by the CBC building. But this footage — which the FBI quietly admits it had all along — shows the person stopping there for nearly a full minute. So either the Bureau “forgot” to mention this in their public timeline, or they chose not to disclose it. Either way, it’s not a good look when the agency investigating a “domestic terror attack” seems more interested in hiding facts than finding answers.
Here’s where it gets even sketchier. The devices allegedly had 60-minute kitchen timers. But according to a key witness, the RNC bomb still had 20 minutes on the clock when she discovered it — on the afternoon of January 6. That directly contradicts the FBI’s claim that the bombs were planted the night before. Either the clocks were defective, or the timeline is. And considering how this case has been handled, let’s just say the clocks might be the most reliable thing involved.
And don’t bother checking the cell phone data to see who was in the area. That information was magically “corrupted” or “deleted” shortly after January 6. AT&T blamed a “seven-day retention” policy — which only seems to kick in when the data could be politically inconvenient. Funny how that works.
Loudermilk’s theory? The bombs may have been part of a training exercise gone wrong — or maybe gone right, depending on who benefits from the panic. Think about it: two bombs that never explode, conveniently discovered just before the Capitol breach, sowing chaos and distracting police resources. If that was the plan, it worked beautifully — and whoever pulled it off has been protected better than the White House fence jumper.
Meanwhile, the FBI can’t seem to find a hoodie-wearing suspect caught on a dozen cameras, even with half a million dollars dangling in front of every wannabe tipster in America. Either the bomber has the stealth skills of a Navy SEAL, or someone doesn’t want them found.
The question isn’t just who planted the bombs. The real question is: who planted the story?