Posted on 03/25/2024 8:34:42 AM PDT by george76
We have long maintained that the two smoking guns of the January 6 Fedsurrection are the curious case of Ray Epps, on the one hand, and the RNC/DNC pipe bomb hoax, on the other. Our extensive reporting on the case of Epps enjoyed a natural assist from the fact that the now-iconic video of Epps urging the crowd to go “into the Capitol” and the subsequent chants from the crowd of “Fed, Fed, Fed” were seemingly tailor-made to go viral. While our ground-breaking reporting on January 6 had been no less comprehensive and no less damning, for the longest time it lacked a corresponding video clip to help carry this historic scandal into mainstream attention.
All of this changed when we drew attention to a certain explosive (no pun intended) surveillance video that had quietly and with great reluctance been released by the Capitol Police thanks to the persistent efforts of Thomas Massie, who has valiantly used his Congressional perch to advance our body of research on the January 6 pipe bomb. We strongly encourage readers to stop here and read our comprehensive piece on this bombshell video and how it fits into the comprehensive universe of reporting we’ve built on this subject. The video in question depicts the discovery of the so-called “DNC pipe bomb” that was discovered outside of the DNC headquarters on January 6. Right off the bat, things simply don’t add up.
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In the video, we can see a plainclothes Capitol Police officer inform Secret Service agents stationed outside the DNC building of the presence of the bomb just feet away, whereupon the agents in question react with an utter lack of concern, not even bothering to exit their vehicle for over a minute. The Secret Service agents’ nonchalant attitude toward the bomb reaches a crescendo in the most arresting part of the video, in which the agents and Capitol Police officers casually allow a group of schoolchildren to cross the street in the direction of the pipe bomb and walk within feet of the explosives! Could it be that the Secret Service agents were simply unconcerned for their own lives, the lives of their protectee (then-VP-elect Kamala Harris), or the lives of the aforementioned schoolchildren? There is perhaps a remote possibility.
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The video and the context overwhelmingly suggest, however, that somehow the Secret Service agents in question knew the bomb posed no threat. But how on earth would they have known that in advance? This is especially bizarre and troubling given the fact that the Secret Service agents were protecting Kamala Harris, who has strangely covered up the fact that she was present in the DNC as the pipe bomb was found. To this day, Harris refuses to acknowledge her presence in the DNC building, against all evident political interest. After all, think of how much she could have milked politically from the fact that she came within a hair’s width of the deadly MAGA pipe bomb. The regime has been so desperate to find stories to fit their “domestic terrorism” narrative of January 6 that they’ve resorted to outright lies—to take one, the lies regarding the death of Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick. This is the one case in which no lies would seem to be necessary, as the Vice President really was at the building when the bombs were discovered.
Yet for whatever reason, what seems like it should be the biggest regime talking point of January 6 is instead its most carefully guarded secret.
The fact that Kamala’s Secret Service detail clearly knew in advance that somehow the pipe bomb posed no threat only serves to compound our suspicions further. And of course, this just scratches the surface of the numerous glaring discrepancies and infinitesimally implausible coincidences that have haunted the regime’s official version of events ever since we began exposing the pipe bomb hoax over three years ago. Again, for readers who need to get up to speed, here is a great place to start.
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What possible explanation could the authorities have for the flagrantly negligent—and indeed, inexplicable—behavior caught on video whereby the Secret Service is so unconcerned about the presence of a pipe bomb that they would not only stand within feet of it themselves, but without a care in the world, allow a group of schoolchildren to walk within the certain-death zone of its blast radius?
As it so happens, Capitol Police authorities have offered an explanation for the glaring questions raised above, though the answers only serve to elevate our confidence in a cover-up from strong suspicion to near certainty. In our previous piece, we revealed a closed-door meeting between Congressman Massie and certain Congressional officials that included one Capitol Police officer who was present on the scene as the DNC pipe bomb was discovered—this officer in fact happens to be the partner of the plainclothes officer who discovered the DNC bomb and went on to inform the Secret Service as depicted in the surveillance footage.
When asked about the flagrant and explicable lack of concern in relation to the pipe bomb, a more senior Capitol Police official who spoke for the group offered the following shocking response: the nonchalant response of the Secret Service and Capitol Police to the pipe bomb was deliberately designed so as not to cause panic among the public. Think of that: we’re supposed to believe that Secret Service agents and Capitol Police stood lackadaisically within feet of what could have been a live explosive device and allowed a group of children to walk within feet of said device in order to not cause panic. This answer alone suggests that not only are they clearly covering up the real story, they possess such confidence that they didn’t even have to bother to come up with a more plausible cover story. If you believe that, we’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn or a Fedsurrection in D.C. to sell you, folks!
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Congressman Massie and a number of other Judiciary officials had the opportunity to meet with relevant Capitol Police officials, including at least one Capitol Police officer who was present during the discovery of the DNC bomb depicted in the video above. When asked the obvious and burning question as to why Secret Service officials, as well as the Capitol Police officers on scene, were so utterly unconcerned with the recently discovered bomb just feet within their proximity, the Capitol Police responded that they and the Secret Service officials on scene reacted with such utter indifference in order not to cause panic.
Think about this. The Secret Service was notified of the presence of an explosive device within feet of themselves, the Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, whom they’re supposed to protect, and children and other passersby, and we are supposed to believe that the officials did nothing because they didn’t want to cause panic!
The Plot Thickens: Damning New Details Emerge in Jan 6 Pipe Bomb Cover Up
We are now in a position to expose the identity of the most senior Capitol Police official in that meeting and the man who reportedly presented congressional officials and staffers with the absurd excuse that the Capitol Police and Secret Service allowed a group of children to walk in front of the bomb so as not to cause panic—a baffling explanation for such a flagrant breach of protocol as to be unbelievable to the point of offense. That Capitol Police official is Ashan Benedict, currently Assistant Chief of Police of the Capitol Police in charge of Protective and Intelligence Operations. Yes, you read that right. A man who would excuse the flagrant violation of security protocol as depicted in the footage of the DNC bomb discovery is the head of Protective Operations at the Capitol Police. This alone should be sufficient to cause a national scandal, but it gets far worse.
Ashan Benedict’s conduct and statements in the meeting described above, together with new (yet entirely overlooked) information that has come out as a result of a recent Judicial Watch FOIA request, lead us to believe with a high degree of conviction that Ashan M. Benedict is one of the key cover-up men of the entire January 6 pipe bomb hoax.
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Up until this point, Benedict remained, for the most part, an unknown figure to the public. In fact, the only public exposure of Benedict of any note occurred quite recently in the context of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) documents released as a result of Judicial Watch’s FOIA requests. The headline that emerged from this story is the exposure of CIA involvement on January 6. As we shall soon see, however, the documents FOIAd by Judicial Watch inadvertently expose information that serves to dramatically reinforce our belief that Benedict is a key coverup man for the January 6 pipe bomb hoax.
The ATF documents obtained by Judicial Watch run 88 pages, which includes a number of screenshots from a text group chat of various ATF officials on January 6 called the “January 7 Intel Chain.” The first thing we notice about the group chat in question is how nearly every single name is redacted—not an uncommon feature, to be sure—in FOIAd documents from three-letter agencies. Ashan Benedict’s name, interestingly, is one of the very few that is not redacted. Note that on January 6, 2021, Benedict was a senior ATF official as the Special Agent in Charge for all of Washington, D.C. (hence his presence in the FOIA documents).
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That Ashan Benedict was present during and reportedly endorsed the Capitol Police’s answer regarding not worrying about a third bomb is especially interesting given what is revealed in the “Intel” group chat Benedict participated in during January 6. Indeed, the chat logs as FOIAd by Judicial Watch at best expose Benedict as misleading and complicit in this regard and at worst catch him in an outright lie. The chat logs in question show that there was indeed confusion and rumors of multiple additional bombs circulating among the ATF chat and the broader first responder community.
The following screenshot, for instance, shows one chat participant (name redacted) passing on rumors from the FBI that there could be three additional pipe bombs in addition to the two already discovered at the DNC and RNC, respectively.
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Special Agent in Charge of the ATF’s Washington, D.C., field division, Ashan Benedict would have likely been involved with getting the CIA on board to help with the incident response.
It would be fair to assume that Benedict is part of the January 6 pipe bomb coverup based on the simple fact that he himself suggested the preposterous notion that Secret Service agents and the Capitol Police officers at the scene of the DNC bomb acted with an utter lack of concern, even allowing schoolchildren to walk by the bombs out of some desire not to cause panic. Benedict would then go on to sit back and nod approvingly as his subordinate (who was on the scene at DNC and partners with the man who discovered the bomb) offers an equally absurd non-answer as to how, after magically discovering the DNC bomb within 15 minutes of the first bomb’s discovery, he and his partner somehow didn’t think to look for a third bomb. The Capitol Police officer in question simply did not have an answer for this other than that he just somehow knew. For Benedict to nod in approval at such an answer is downright bizarre.
First, we should note that Benedict is not some random guy sitting in on this meeting. Benedict is the Assistant Chief of Police of the Capitol Police, in charge of Protection and Intelligence. He is the senior officer in this closed-door meeting and effectively the handler for the Capitol Police officer in question. It is in this capacity that Benedict endorses the Capitol Police officers’ unbelievable answer, and he does so despite direct knowledge from his participation in the Intel group chat on January 6.
From this chat, it is evident that many of Benedict’s subordinates (then in the ATF) were circulating speculation and chatter about the possibility of more bombs, exactly as one might expect. Benedict isn’t just a casual participant in the group chat either; it is clear from the fact and the manner in which Benedict ends the group chat chain that he is the senior officer in the chat as well (remember, he was Special Agent in Charge of Washington, D.C., ATF at the time).
Evidently, everyone was worried about the possibility of a third or more bombs, except for the Capitol Police officers, who mysteriously were able to discover the DNC bomb. Clearly, they knew something the rest of the responders did not, and clearly, Benedict is pretending their answers aren’t absurd despite knowing better.
It is all the more remarkable that Benedict would act as though it were normal that the Capitol Police officers who discovered the DNC bomb didn’t think there could be a third bomb, as Benedict spoke to the media shortly after January 6 and used the January 6 pipe bombs to openly speculate that the same individual could attempt to plant another bomb soon, potentially at Joe Biden’s inauguration.
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With regards to the investigation into pipe bombs planted in Washington during the Capitol siege, Ashan Benedict of the ATF in Washington said the probes are “ongoing.” One arrest has been made of a man who allegedly brought 11 Molotov cocktails in a truck, but the FBI has been seeking information about another alleged person who planted bombs near political party headquarters. He said agents from the ATF are working with Secret Service and others in advance of the Inauguration, and warns people bringing firearms into DC, where guns are strictly regulated, to follow the law or else risk being arrested.
S Benedict publicly uses the pipe bomb story to speculate that there will be future bombs, and yet somehow endorses the Capitol Police officers’ response that they didn’t think to look for additional pipe bombs on January 6 itself!
The answers the Capitol Police officials gave regarding the damning questions raised by the surveillance footage depicting the discovery of the DNC bomb were so glaringly implausible and disingenuous as to remove any doubt in our minds as to the fact of a cover-up
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When the first report of a bomb came into the ATF through DC’s Metropolitan Police Department, Benedict and his top deputy got in a car and drove to the scene, something he says he only does in the most serious cases. “It was probably one of the most stressful environments that I’ve been around,” Benedict said. “While we’re standing there at this bomb scene, the radios from the uniformed officers I’m speaking with are going off in greater intensity. It’s not just your normal radio transmissions – folks are calling for help and their voices are raised,” he said.
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this surface scandal will be a useful entry point to the underlying scandal, which is that Benedict, of course, doesn’t really think it’s normal or acceptable protocol to allow people to walk in front of a bomb. He gave that answer because he knows that the Capitol Police officers in question both discovered the DNC bomb under false pretenses and also knew in advance that it was fake, and he wants to cover this up and cover up the reasons for it. The underlying scandal is that Ashan Benedict is overwhelmingly likely to be a key figure in the cover-up of the J6 pipe bomb hoax, and he is currently head of intelligence for the Capitol Police.
Now we have a name, and we’re one giant step closer to the end game of unraveling this whole tangle of thorns once and for all.
It’s real first name is probably Arnold.
The Capitol Police allowed the school children to risk almost certain death or lifelong maiming, by walking just a few feet from an explosive device, so they would not create a panic?
Now, who on earth is in police work and, in the space of a minute, could come up with this “no panic plan”, and implement it? Is this “no panic plan” part of police training? This has got to be the most implausible b.s. I have ever heard! If the Capitol Police is going to lie, surely they can do better than that!
If any LEO personnel heard of this quickly concocted plan (one minute to implement, max.), it would certainly be in their memory and cast doubt into the good judgement of their leadership!
Didn’t Ray Epps say at one time the reason he came to Washington was he heard there were going to be bombs and wanted to be on the lookout for the safety of a relative?
J6 Hoax - bump for later....
That would certainly explain why they can use cell phone geolocation data to pinpoint the location of every MAGA supporter who was in DC that day, but are completely unable to identify the bomb-planter seen on deliberately degraded video talking on his cell phone.
Ping.
I believe in the end the Jan 6th “insurrection” will be proven to be a Deep State run operation just like the 2020 election will be proven to be won by fraudulent Democratic operatives and the Deep State
Somehow, it reminded me...
Darren Beattie (author of article above) told the Dan Bongino Show audience today (3/28/2024) that Ashan Benedict was the ATF officer in charge of debris removal at the Pentagon on 9/11.
Ping.
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