House Republicans faulted the January 6th Select Committee for failing to investigate the two pipe bombs discovered blocks from the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to an oversight report published Thursday.
Two House oversight subcommittees, led by Republican Reps. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia and Thomas Massie of Kentucky, released an interim staff report Thursday criticizing the January 6th Committee for overlooking the two pipe bombs, an incident that is still unsolved nearly four years later, during the oversight panel’s investigation into the events that transpired on January 6th. The release of the oversight report faulting the January 6th Committee for failing to probe the pipe bomb incident coincides with President Biden honoring two of the January 6th oversight panel’s leaders, former Republican Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney and Democratic Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, with the Presidential Citizens Medal Thursday, citing their leadership in steering the investigation of the January 6th Committee.
Two pipe bombs were found outside the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) the afternoon of January 6th shortly before demonstrators began to breach the security barriers around the U.S. Capitol, diverting law enforcement’s presence away from the Capitol complex, according to the report.
“Despite the Select Committee’s task, the threat the pipe bombs posed to the public, and the role the pipe bombs played in diverting resources away from the Capitol, the Select Committee chose to overlook the pipe bombs’ existence,” the joint committee report, titled “Four Years Later: Examining the State of the Investigation into the RNC and DNC Pipe Bombs,” states. “In fact, the Select Committee’s 845-page report only referenced the pipe bombs five times in passing.”
Loudermilk and Massie allege the January 6th Committee’s failure to thoroughly investigate the pipe bombs is also supported by data obtained by their respective committees that was turned over by the January 6th Committee following its disbandment.
“A thorough review of almost three terabytes of data turned over by the Select Committee yielded shockingly few results regarding the pipe bombs — emphasizing how the Select Committee failed to thoroughly investigate the security and operational failures surrounding the events of January 6,” the report states.
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Biden giving the 2nd highest civilian award to leaders of Jan. 6 committee The report also found that law enforcement failed to thoroughly sweep DNC headquarters and allowed Vice President Kamala Harris to enter the building while the pipe bomb lay outside. Massie previously criticized Thompson for being unaware that Harris visited DNC headquarters prior to law enforcement’s discovery of the pipe bomb.
Despite the Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecuting more than 1,500 people over their actions on January 6th, the agency has not arrested any individual in connection with the two pipe bombs nearly four years later. The DOJ has also stonewalled lawmakers attempts to get updates about the status of the agency’s investigation into the pipe bomber, according to the report
House lawmakers allege that the FBI identified multiple “persons of interest” in connection to the pipe bombs in the months following January 6th, including a person who searched “Pipe Bomb DC” online prior to law enforcement’s discovery but after the pipe bombs were placed. However, the bureau’s investigation has appeared to fizzle out with “little meaningful progress toward the apprehension of a suspect,” according to the report.
“Almost four years after the incident, Americans scarcely have any detail about who planted the bombs or why,” the report states. “This lack of information hampers Congress’s ability to legislate improvements to the security of the Capitol Complex and the operations of federal law enforcement. The failure to identify, apprehend, and prosecute the bomber ultimately makes all Americans less secure.”
The January 6th Committee, led by Cheney and Thompson, unanimously recommended that the DOJ prosecute President-elect Donald Trump with four counts related to alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Biden awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal, the second-highest ranking award the president can bestow upon a civilian, to 20 Americans, including Cheney and Thompson, Thursday.
“Throughout two decades in public service, including as a Congresswoman for Wyoming and Vice Chair of the Committee on the January 6 attack, Liz Cheney has raised her voice—and reached across the aisle—to defend our Nation and the ideals we stand for: Freedom. Dignity. And decency. Her integrity and intrepidness remind us all what is possible if we work together,” Biden wrote of Cheney receiving the medal.
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Cry Baby? They can give it out – but they can’t take it?
Grow up and take it on the chin. He just gave you a taste of your own medicine. The news has been lying to the public for four years about Biden/Democrat progressives.
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A Republican senator known for his antics in front of the cameras made some curious remarks during a press conference on Wednesday where officials updated the public on the investigation into a car attack in New Orleans that left 15 people dead.
John Kennedy, appearing alongside law enforcement officials and the state of Louisiana’s Republican governor, Jeff Landry, used the opportunity to take shots at reporters and outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
In one widely-circulated clip, the senator is seen questioning several reporters in the room to determine which outlets they worked for. Then, a woman informs him that reporters for NBC News were to his right.
The senator couldn’t resist a shot at the network and its politics: “That’s an unusual position”.
His comment drew chuckles from a few people in the room, and a confused reply from a woman off camera: “I don’t get it.”
“You wouldn’t,” he snidely told the reporter.
The senator’s comments about federal support — which by all reports is underway — were dripping with contempt. Kennedy said he’d spoken to Mayorkas, telling reporters: “I did talk to the Secretary of Homeland Security a little while ago, and I told him that, with all the respect I could muster, that we expect [him] to put the full force and resources of the federal government behind this investigation.”
Authorities give updates after New Orleans terrorism attack | Full press conference In the friendly arms of a Fox News interview, the senator would go even further, and baselessly suggested that the Biden administration might seek to orchestrate a “cover up” of the attacker or their motive(s).
“I don’t want to hear anyone in the federal government claiming they lack resources. They need to saddle up and ride,” said the senator, evoking one of his typically folksy quips. “We need answers about what happened in New Orleans…No cover ups.”
“You never know what they’re not telling us,” he added. “But I know how to probe pretty hard.”
Kennedy is no stranger to spectacle, and has been repeatedly rebuked by everyone from his Democratic rivals to foreign governments for the comments he makes in front of TV cameras. In 2023, the government of Mexico described him as “vulgar” and “racist” after the senator suggested that, “figuratively speaking,” the people of Mexico would be “eating cat food out of a can and living in a tent behind an Outback [Steakhouse]” were it not for U.S. foreign aid.
Lawmakers on the House Homeland Security Committee were due to receive a briefing on the New Orleans attack with updated information Thursday morning, according to reports. The situation is being investigated in concert with the response to a Tesla Cybertruck, apparently packed with fireworks and other explosives, in front of a Trump property in Las Vegas, though no connection has been established by law enforcement. At a news conference Thursday morning, FBI officials said the agency believed that the New Orleans attacker acted alone.
The deadly car attack in New Orleans’s famous French Quarter came as the city’s cultural districts were packed with tourists and locals alike for New Year’s celebrations. Fifteen people are reported dead and dozens more were injured in the attack. FBI officials say a black flag associated with the terrorist Islamic State ideology was found on the pickup truck driven by the New Orleans suspect.
The FBI on Wednesday named 42-year-old U.S. Army veteran Shamsud-Din Jabbar as the suspect in the New Orleans attack; he died in a shootout with police.
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