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How a tech-savvy officer finally cracked the Jan. 6 pipe-bombs case
MSN / WSJ ^ | December 15, 2025 | Sadie Gurman, C. Ryan Barber

Posted on 12/15/2025 9:17:03 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie

For four years, a tranche of cellphone data provided to the FBI by T-Mobile US sat on a digital shelf because investigators couldn’t figure out how to read it, people familiar with the matter said. The data turned out to be essential to cracking the case, the people said, a breakthrough that happened only recently when a tech-savvy law-enforcement officer wrote a new computer program that finally deciphered the information. That move led to the arrest of 30-year-old Brian Cole Jr. at his home in Northern Virginia, where he had been quietly living with his mother and other relatives.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: cellphonedata; pipebomb
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Mainstream media disinfo cover for FBI.
1 posted on 12/15/2025 9:17:03 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Yep!


2 posted on 12/15/2025 9:17:52 PM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

The FBI certainly knew how to “decipher” tech data on the J6ers.


3 posted on 12/15/2025 9:18:06 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Pipe bomber, FL, Butler PA and Charlie Kirk assassins all had no accomplices? C'mon man!)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

“New program” was allowed to launch on 1/21/25...and not one day sooner.


4 posted on 12/15/2025 9:19:27 PM PST by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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"because investigators couldn’t figure out how to read it" -- Absolute, utter Bull Squeeze. How stupid do they think Americans are?

The world's most sophisticated forensics organization couldn't figure out how to read a data file? The vaunted FBI didn't have somebody who could figure out a file format? Or call T-Mobile and ask "How do we read this data?"

I've never heard of anything so preposterous in my life.

5 posted on 12/15/2025 9:20:38 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Cover for previous/FJB’s FBI-who hid it, believing it would not be found-not because they could not decipher the info, but because they believed pres Trump’s people were too stupid to come across it and do so-but instead-sorpresa...


6 posted on 12/15/2025 9:27:46 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've go to draw a hard line"...)
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Mainstream media disinfo cover for FBI.

Sure seems like it. But, if so, why is Dan Bongino going along with it?

7 posted on 12/15/2025 9:29:55 PM PST by Alvin Diogenes
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Sure seems like it. But, if so, why is Dan Bongino going along with it?

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Perhaps he was read the riot act?


8 posted on 12/15/2025 9:33:10 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Pipe bomber, FL, Butler PA and Charlie Kirk assassins all had no accomplices? C'mon man!)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

“Vranyo (враньё) is a Russian concept for a special kind of lie where both the speaker and listener know it’s false, yet they pretend to believe it, often for social, political, or survival reasons, distinguishing it from lozh (a straightforward lie) and involving mutual acknowledgement of the fabrication, seen in politics, media, and daily life as a cultural phenomenon”.

Russians made this into an art form in the Soviet days.

Someone says they cannot attend your party because their mother is sick. The next time you see them you act deeply concerned about the mother and ask how she is feeling. etc etc...coming to America more and more.


9 posted on 12/15/2025 9:38:18 PM PST by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

BKMK!


10 posted on 12/15/2025 9:39:43 PM PST by lizma2
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Yeah, this article is crap.


11 posted on 12/15/2025 9:53:14 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: The_Media_never_lie

under Biden, they didnt want to try to figure it out.


12 posted on 12/15/2025 9:54:10 PM PST by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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"For four years, a tranche of cellphone data provided to the FBI by T-Mobile US sat on a digital shelf because investigators couldn’t figure out how to read it..."

Horse shit!

13 posted on 12/15/2025 10:08:57 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

I hate to say this, but that’s my feeling as well. I had hoped that if somebody could remain uncompromised, it would be him. But anybody can buckle under threats.


14 posted on 12/15/2025 10:45:19 PM PST by Alvin Diogenes
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Brian Cole Jr. is too mentally ill to have built 2 pipe bombs.
How about the coincidence he planted the bombs where he did and just before the inauguration? Both bombs did not go off. It was not him. The security footage being altered is another tell.
Or that the fbi and other democrat party thugs created the “insurrection” for the next morning?


15 posted on 12/16/2025 1:22:01 AM PST by minnesota_bound (Making money now. Still want much more.)
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"Mainstream media disinfo cover for FBI."

You've got that right. This is clearly a fake news story to give cover to Biden's FBI. Kudos to the agent for deciphering the cell phone data, but I believe its complexity was simply an excuse to not try. I'll bet no one asked for help from T-Mobile to explain it.

16 posted on 12/16/2025 5:40:56 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (Freud: projection is a defense mechanism of those [Leftists] struggling with inferiority complexes)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

But the FIB managed to track down every cell phone at the Trump Tally that day.


17 posted on 12/16/2025 6:45:05 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Deport all muslims.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Rally


18 posted on 12/16/2025 6:45:22 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Deport all muslims.)
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“because investigators couldn’t figure out how to read it”

Perfectly emblematic of the Biden and Wray administrations.


19 posted on 12/16/2025 6:47:08 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O'Rourke)
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cellphone data provided to the FBI by T-Mobile US sat on a digital shelf because investigators couldn’t figure out how to read it...

What a pantload.

20 posted on 12/16/2025 7:27:02 AM PST by Albion Wilde (To live free is the greatest gift; to die free is the greatest victory. —Erica Kirk)
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