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MSM Stories About January 6 Pipe Bomber Skip Incredibly Obvious Question
MRC Newsbusters ^ | P. J. Gladnick

Posted on 01/09/2022 1:24:43 PM PST by Impala64ssa

On January 6, the media was chock full of stories about the events at Capitol Hill on the day of the riot. One potentially big event that could have overshadowed what happened at the Capitol building was a couple of pipe bombs planted near the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee buildings. Fortunately neither bomb went off, but the mystery remains of who was the pipe bomber that still remains at large.

Because of the January 6 anniversary, several media outlets were speculating about the mystery of who the pipe bomber was and why the FBI has not found him despite conducting an intensive investigation. You can see stories about the investigation into the pipe bomber suspect at such sources as CBS News, the Associated Press (via PBS), and The Atlantic.

One thing the stories all have in common is what appears to be a lack of curiosity why the FBI hasn't used a very common investigative technique to identify the bomber. An example of this mysterious lack of curiosity was displayed by Atlantic writer Elaine Godfrey in her Thursday story, "The Capitol Hill Bomber Is Still At Large."

Investigators for the FBI have scoured hundreds of hours of video and interviewed more than 900 people so far in the pipe-bomb case. They’re reportedly studying the way the person walks in the camera footage, hoping to find a suspect match through gait analysis. But they’ve made little progress, and they’re asking members of the public for help. “We’re still nose to the grindstone here and trying to find this individual, trying to bring the person to justice,” Steven D’Antuono, the assistant director of the FBI’s D.C. field office, told the Associated Press this week. “But there is hopefully maybe somebody still out there that knows the person or sees the video again.”

Amid all this kvetching by Godfrey about the FBI failing to find the suspect despite an intensive investigation, she fails to ask a very obvious question: Why hasn't the FBI attempted to track the pipe bomber's GPS movements via the phone pinging off the cell phone towers? We know the suspect used his cell phone at least five times since his movements were tracked by surveillance cameras such as in the one provided by the FBI

And since the suspect's locations and times were known from video surveillance it should be a rather easy matter to find out where he started out from and where he went after he planted the bombs via GPS tracking as well as perhaps what phone number(s) he called. This is not some kooky crackpot investigative idea since many people at Capitol Hill on January 6 were tracked by that technology as the WUSA9 story reveals:

WASHINGTON — If you were anywhere near the Capitol on Jan. 6, you may be getting a knock on your door from the FBI.

A D.C. woman said an agent visited her neighbor and called her, telling them investigators were tracking people whose cell phones connected to wi-fi or pinged cell phone towers near the Capitol during the riots.

"They don't call first, they just come to your house," Bree Stevens, a legal investigator who lives near Capitol Hill, said.

Stevens said an FBI agent told her they were reaching out to every single person whose cell phone put them near the Capitol during the riots.

So if the FBI can use cell tower tracking to identify grandmothers just standing around at the Capitol building on January 6, why haven't they used the same technology to find the pipe bomber? Perhaps Elaine Godfrey and all the others writing about the "mystery" of the pipe bomber might do something real journalists used to do and pick up a phone and call the FBI or the January 6 Committee to ask them about this.


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Video at link. The Fumbling Bunch of Idiots couldn't find there way out of an outhouse if they used a GPS. They may as well enlist the aid of the Keystone Cops, or Barney Fife. Surely those guys are more competent. ASSuming there's no ulterior motives for these f-ups.🤬🤬
1 posted on 01/09/2022 1:24:43 PM PST by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa
While we're talking pipes, was the Fulton Country pipe burst on the night of 11/3/20 ever fixed? It's been so long, just hope it's not still burst and flooding the building.

Fulton County election results delayed after pipe bursts in room with ballots

2 posted on 01/09/2022 1:27:30 PM PST by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: Impala64ssa

The pipe bomber works at the FBI....that is why they “cannot find him”


3 posted on 01/09/2022 1:29:01 PM PST by Erik Latranyi (We are being played by forces most do not understand)
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To: Impala64ssa

The top FBI brass put their dumbest spooks on the case because THEY don’t want the pipe bomber found? Possible reasons why? One conspiracy theory would be both pipe bomb events on Jan 5th were false flag events that went off on the wrong day - a day before they were supposed to go off, a day before they could be tied to the false flag “insurrection” event on the 6th.


4 posted on 01/09/2022 1:31:31 PM PST by Wuli
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Merely saying “fortunately they didn't go off” is lousy reporting. WHY didn't they go off? Were they set to go off? Were they on timers, fuses, or were they just left there?

What kind of “pipe bomb”? The fabulists at the FBI would call a Mentos dropped into a Pepsi a “pipe bomb”.

5 posted on 01/09/2022 1:32:42 PM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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Yeah, let’s see a photo of these insidious “devices”.


6 posted on 01/09/2022 1:36:30 PM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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the Fulton Country pipe burst
Yeah, that's another thing. Don't the arenas always have a maintenance crew on duty whenever there's events taking place? One of them could've easily turned off the water water main going into the rest room where the leak occured, should've been no big deal.
7 posted on 01/09/2022 1:42:54 PM PST by Impala64ssa (If a liar's pants really did catch on fire ABC, CNN and MSNBC would be more fun to watch)
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https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4027524/posts


8 posted on 01/09/2022 1:43:07 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (The best things in life aren't things.)
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The Democrats are afraid to find out who placed the bombs because they think they already know.


9 posted on 01/09/2022 1:51:14 PM PST by Spok
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Why was the VP-Elect allegedly hanging out at the DNC Headquarters?

And if so, that means apparently somebody planted an explosive device right under the nose of the Secret Service.


10 posted on 01/09/2022 2:49:43 PM PST by Hatteras
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The ONLY question about Jan 6 in general, and the “pipe bomber” in particular, is why hasn’t a single FBI whistleblower come forward?

Is every single one of them compromised — or gutless?


11 posted on 01/09/2022 3:24:56 PM PST by nicollo
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To: Eagles6

There are photos around. Regular pipe bombs, maybe 10”-12” long, steel pipe, kitchen dial type timer. They didn’t go off.

Dial type kitchen timers are usually good for 60 mins max. But if you wind all the way to max, sometimes they don’t start the countdown at all. They kind of jam tight. So that may have happened.

And yes, they know who it was. They had his complete wander path right away, who he was on the phone with, etc. And Wray will never reveal it.

Guess why.


12 posted on 01/09/2022 4:08:12 PM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Convention Of States is our only hope now! Desantis 2024!!!)
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Another obvious question is...
Who builds pipe bombs that don’t work at all and why?


13 posted on 01/09/2022 4:26:10 PM PST by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

14 posted on 01/09/2022 4:34:13 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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A lefty and / or working for the fibbies.


15 posted on 01/09/2022 4:56:30 PM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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