House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has sent aย letterย to FBI Director Christopher Wray following a new whistleblower disclosure from a senior FBI special agent concerning the investigation into the pipe bombs placed near the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee on January 5, 2021.
According to the special agent, on February 7, 2022 โ over a year after the placement of the bombs โ the FBI's Washington Field Office asked FBI field offices to canvass all confidential human sources nationwide for information about the individual and the crime. In part, the message asked that the canvass โinclude sources reporting on all [types of] threatsโ because the suspect's โmotive and ideology remain unknown.โ The special agent explained that the WFO request was โunusualโ 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's investigation.
PBS News Hour has more on the state of the investigation:
The investigation has been a massive undertaking for federal law enforcement officials. More than 700 people have been charged with federal crimes stemming from the Jan. 6 attack, and arrests are still being made regularly.
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โThis investigation takes time because it is a lot of lot of work, a lot of painstaking work that they look at the video kind of frame by frame,โ said Steven D'Antuono, the assistant director in charge of the FBI's field office in Washington.
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In the search for the person who left the pipe bombs at the RNC and DNC offices, investigators have interviewed more than 900 people, collected 39,000 video files and examined more than 400 leads. They have dived into the components of the explosives and have been working to try to discern anything they can about the suspect, from analyzing the person's gait to trying to collect information about purchases of the distinctive Nike sneakers the person wore.
But they are still no closer to finding the suspect's identity and are hoping renewed attention on the video of the person may spark a tip to crack the case.
In light of this disclosure, Ranking Member Jordan requested a briefing on the matter from the FBI no later than March 23, 2020.
Read the full letterย here.
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they need to turn it over to the tv show “FBI MOST WANTED” they will solve it in one hour( including commercials) !