In a recent revelation, a former FBI agent has disclosed that the bureau had identified a suspect linked to the pipe bombs planted at both the Republican and Democrat National Committee buildings in Washington DC prior to January 6, 2021.
The suspect was traced through a DC Metro fare card and a license plate. However, the agent's team was barred from interviewing the person of interest.
Despite more than three years having passed, the individual responsible for the placement of the pipe bombs remains at large.
Kyle Seraphin, a former leader of FBI surveillance teams, shared with the Daily Wire that a counterintelligence team had briefed him on his next surveillance target shortly after the January 6 incident. The team had utilized security footage to track the person of interest to a Metro station following the planting of the bombs. The card used to access the transit system was identified, leading them to a stop in Northern Virginia where the individual was spotted entering a car. Both the card and the car were registered to a retired Air Force chief master sergeant currently employed as a contractor with security clearance.
Seraphin and his team were tasked with surveilling the person of interest's row house for several days. However, their request to interview the individual was denied by the FBI. Instead, they were instructed to shift their focus to minor participants of the January 6 incident.
"Allegedly someone threw bombs around the Capitol which could have killed congressmen or a busload of nuns or anything, and the answer is you cant follow this guy around you have to go to headquarters and read leads where someone said I mightve went to high school with some guy that was standing around the Capitol?" Seraphin expressed his frustration to the outlet.
While it wasn't definitively established that the bomber was the same person of interest they were assigned to watch, Seraphin noted that this was a highly specific lead that could have potentially led investigators to the suspect.
"They found people based on their earlobes that were hanging out by a flagpole," Seraphin commented on the FBI's efforts to identify suspects at the Capitol on January 6.
He further questioned, "When they had the World Trade Center bombing in 93 they went under four stories of rubble and were able to find a partial VIN number that they used to track it down to the people responsible. And youre telling me you had a pristine, non-detonated bomb and they couldnt find anything on it?"
Earlier this year, it was reported that a plainclothes officer had discovered the bomb at the DNC headquarters. The officer was seen casually walking to a patrol vehicle to converse with the occupants and a Secret Service SUV, presumably to inform them of his discovery.
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