Good day all. Now that the person who planted a pair of pipe bombs at the Republican and Democrat headquarters in Washington is in custody, a number of questions are being asked. The big one is “Why the Hell did it take almost five years to find this guy?”
When the arrest occurred, both the Attorney General Pam Bondi and the director of the FBI, Kash Patel said that there was no new information. The FBI revisited all the original evidence and actually did what investigators are supposed to do. Investigate. Now Director Patel is blasting the Biden Maladministration on what he saying is incompetence of the worst sort. Here are the details from Fox News:
FBI Director Kash Patel on Thursday blasted the Biden administration for its handling of the investigation into who planted pipe bombs at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 5, 2021.
Patel told “Fox News @ Night Now” host Trace Gallagher that the prior administration “sat on” evidence for four years and failed to make a breakthrough in the case, whereas the FBI under his leadership incorporated cell phone geolocation data to hunt for the suspect.
“We went back and looked at the cellphone tower data dumps. We went back and looked at the providers and what information they provided pursuant to search warrants at the time and asked questions such as why weren’t all the phone numbers scrubbed, why aren’t they connected and why wasn’t there any geolocational data done?” Patel said. “That is either sheer incompetence or complete intentional negligence — and neither of which is acceptable for this FBI.”
Actually, there is one other option that Director Patel didn’t mention. That Christopher Wray and Merrick Garland pretty much shut the entire investigation down. Why you may ask? In my opinion, the agents were reassigned to go after President Trump, anyone who may have been in Washington on January 6th, regardless of whether or not they were in front of the Capitol Building, and to go after the Republicans in general as enemies of President Dementia Biden. (Or his handlers)
Patel argued the bureau under Biden failed at basic law enforcement functions.
“This guy… planted bombs at the United States Capitol on camera,” Patel said. “And the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the prior four years couldn’t find him. Completely unacceptable.”
It is hard to find someone when you aren’t really looking all that hard. It might have been different if the IED’s had gone off of course.
Patel said investigators went back to “good cop basics” and combed through hundreds of tips and interviews to finally identify the suspect. He said a key item in the investigation was the suspects’ Nike sneakers, of which only a limited amount were ever made in the U.S.
Note to criminals. If you are going to be stupid and do something stupid and illegal, go to another state, buy generic clothes at Goodwill, pay cash and be sure to destroy everything once you have completed your nefarious task and dispose of the refuse very far away. Oh, and leave all your electronics at home. This is something anyone who watches things like NCIS, the FBI or any of a bazillion other police procedural TV shows knows.
“We, the FBI, have the best cellphone capability tracking systems, and we use that to say who was around the area that matches the description, the height, the weight, the size, and who was wearing this sort of sneakers,” Patel said. “But on top of that, I can generally say that, you know, some of our biggest breakthroughs always come from cell phone analysis.”
Today, people are basically welded to their phones. For people under 40, they literally can’t conceive of not having their phone on them. What they don’t understand, or don’t really think about is that they are carrying a tracking device. The first thing law enforcement does is get the records of what phones were connected to the nearest cell towers.
Bondi echoed Patel’s criticism of the prior administration and noted that the bombs Cole intended to use were real.
“This case languished. It sat there for four years collecting dust. No one did anything to solve this,” Bondi told “Fox & Friends” Friday. “Both bombs were real… and thankfully they didn’t detonate.”
She praised Patel and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino for reviving the case and keeping the new investigation under wraps until they were ready to make an arrest. She also stated that she expects more charges to be filed and did not reveal a motive.
As I understand it, Dan Bongino has been pushing this investigation for four years, always asking what the heck the FBI was doing. Well, now we know. They weren’t doing anything. I suspect that this was pretty much Bongino’s baby once he was sworn in and got settled into his job. I’ve commented previously that I think the FBI really got going sometime last summer on re-investigating, or perhaps actually investigating for the first time, all the evidence that had been collected in the first few months of the Biden Maladministration.
Now the next thing that needs to happen is Merrick Garland and Christopher Wray being hauled up in front of some oversight committees and asked point blank what they were doing regarding the case. Obviously, they weren’t actually doing any sort of an investigation. I’m also interested on how Wray will respond when asked about his previous testimony on this case and how he basically dodged answering it. (He may have lied, but I haven’t reviewed his testimony)
I don’t know what the verdict will be against the bomber. That will be for a jury to decide based on the evidence. What is important is that there will be a trial. What we seem to have been experiencing for the duration of the Biden Maladministration was a flat out cover up. One investigation has now been successfully concluded. Now it’s time to start another one. Whoever shut down the original investigation needs to answer for it.
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