Kash Patel just got his man.
On the eve of Donald Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021, rally at the Capitol, several pipe bombs were found in key Washington, D.C. locations, with the only reported evidence being a bit of video footage of an individual in a hoodie planting the materials.
Though the Biden administration failed for years to find the perpetrator, Patel’s FBI appears to have tracked him down and arrested him after only 11 months.
The nation was stunned to learn that authorities had found pipe bombs outside of the DNC and RNC headquarters in D.C. just ahead of the big rally that was scheduled for Jan. 6.
Thankfully, the bombs never went off, but this could have been a horrific tragedy, as thousands of people had passed through the area at issue before and during the rally.
Authorities stated at the time that they were not sure when the devices were supposed to have been detonated, but the rigging of the bombs suggested the possibility of a remotely-triggered blast (one of the devices had a cell phone attached to it).
While Joe Biden’s DOJ did release video footage of the alleged bomber, this more or less became a cold case right out of the gate, as there was little to no progress in the investigation for the four years that he was in office.
On Thursday, it was announced that federal investigators had finally arrested someone in the case.
Brian Cole Jr., a 30-year-old black male living in Woodbridge, Virginia, has been named as the suspect.
FBI Co-Deputy Director Dan Bongino, who headed the investigation, stated, "You're not going to walk into our capital city, put down two explosive devices and walk off in the sunset.”
He continued, "Not going to happen -- we were going to track this person to the end of the Earth. There was no way he was getting away."
That was the word that FBI Director Kash Patel used to describe Biden’s DOJ for not being able to solve this case after four years.
He explained, "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 continued, "That is either sheer incompetence or complete intentional negligence — and neither of which is acceptable for this FBI."
This is amazing news, and I cannot give Patel and Bongino enough props for bringing in this suspect, but now the really hard work begins. They are going to have to get a guilty verdict with a liberal jury pool and likely a liberal judge. We have yet to hear of any motive in the case, a fact that could play a key role in the suspect's defense strategy, but I am sure that information will come out soon enough, with investigators now interrogating the suspect at length.
