How an innocent woman's name was tied to the Jan. 6 pipe bombs

How about the innocent US Senators who were illegally spied upon by the government agencies?

They redacted the name:

H*****y C*****n of Chappaqua, New York.

Her alibi is CIA BS

This has NEVER happened in ANY crime investigation before! (///S)

AI makes that stuff fairly straightforward these days.

Need more than a video of puppies..cell phone data rreview of all security cameras work schedule witness statements...why change of job.....complete investigation of that unusual
subject...ooh and the FBI cleared her...lol they are not credible about this subject.

Frank wrote:
They redacted the name:

H*****y C*****n of Chappaqua, New York.

She has a Server in her bathroom closet, too

China is all over that sheit

Ha.

Wait ‘till she brings the hammer down on those last servers, though.

Wiping them with a cloth wouldn’t do any good by then.

I have more confidence in the CIA than that.

I’m quite sure they can deepfake a timestamped video of someone playing with puppies.

Question for Freepers: How many of you happen to have time-stamped videos on hand for the date and time in question to provide a solid alibi.

Headline supported only by anonymous sources.

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A federal security officer linked to a thwarted Jan. 6 pipe bomb attack cleared her name by providing an alibi: video of her playing with her puppies at the time the devices were placed, sources told CBS News. The FBI has now ruled her out as a suspect in the 2021 plot, according to three sources — but only after her name circulated on social platforms and a conservative news site.

. . .Several sources told CBS News that the classified draft memo, which was on ODNI letterhead, was written by Paul McNamara, who is in charge of Gabbard’s Director’s Initiatives Group, which is tasked with providing “transparency and accountability” and executing President Trump’s intelligence-related executive orders. McNamara could not be reached for comment. . .

CBS News was not shown the memo, but sources said McNamara had accessed confidential files to obtain details about the woman for the draft memo, including her place of work and Social Security number.

Gabbard, the top ODNI official, has since distanced herself from the memo, telling senior officials that the information about the woman spread without her knowledge while Gabbard was traveling abroad, several sources said. . .

The federal security officer cooperated with the FBI, sources close to the matter said. Her lawyer said publicly she had done nothing wrong. Both the woman and her lawyer declined to comment.

She returned to work after being placed on a brief leave, one of the sources said.

An FBI spokesperson and representatives for Blaze News didn’t respond to requests for comment. Blaze News updated its story with one correction and further information, but it remains online.

FBI officials have said they’re continuing to pursue leads in the pipe bomb case. . .

Reminds me of how they covered for Eric Ciarmella and Ray Epps.

https://x.com/byaaroncdavis/status/1989327719788609936

Aaron C. Davis
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First public comment from Shauni Kerkhoff in this story too. Her attorney responds to recent allegations that the former Capitol Police officer might have been the bomber because of how she walks: “These shameful allegations are recklessly false, absurd, and defamatory. Ms. Kerkhoff categorically denies them.”
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Why is CBS hiding her name when her attorney gave it to the Washington Post voluntarily?

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/11/14/fbi-jan-6-pipe-bomb-investigation/

How the FBI’s massive search for the D.C. pipe bomber stalled
Agents on the Jan. 6 investigation scoured sales at Foot Locker, Home Depot, Lowe’s and other stores in a frustrating search for the culprit.

November 14, 2025

By Aaron C. Davis
This story is based on reporting conducted for the book “Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America’s Justice Department,” written by Davis and Carol Leonnig and published Nov. 4 by Penguin Press.

. . .Last week, several Republican lawmakers latched on to a claim, published in the conservative news outlet the Blaze, that a “gait analysis” suggested the person captured on security videos on the night of Jan. 5, 2021, was a former officer with the Capitol Police. The officer, Shauni Kerkhoff, was on duty at the Capitol the following day and testified in some of the first trials against rioters.

Steve Bunnell, an attorney for Kerkhoff, voluntarily identified his client by name in a statement to The Washington Post, saying she had been so widely and falsely accused in recent days on social media that she had to push back. “These shameful allegations are recklessly false, absurd, and defamatory. Ms. Kerkhoff categorically denies them,” said Bunnell, a former federal prosecutor.

Ed Martin, an associate deputy attorney general in the Justice Department, dismissed a claim on the social media platform X on Friday that he had determined Kerkhoff was the bomber. “This is false. Neither Mr. Martin, nor DOJ has made this determination,” Martin wrote on X.

The FBI did not respond to questions about Kerkhoff but said solving the pipe-bomb case “remains a high priority for the FBI and our law enforcement partners.”. . .

“Ed Martin, an associate deputy attorney general in the Justice Department, dismissed a claim on the social media platform X on Friday that he had determined Kerkhoff was the bomber.”

Ed Martin. . .

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https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2025-03-06%20SJC%20Bar%20Complaint%20re%20Martin.pdf

Office of Disciplinary Counsel
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
515 5th Street NW
Building A, Suite 117
Washington, DC 20001
Re: Request for Disciplinary Investigation of Edward Robert Martin, Jr.
To the Disciplinary Counsel:
We write to express our grave concern about actions taken by Edward Robert Martin, Jr.
that may constitute professional misconduct under the D.C. Rules of Professional Conduct. Since
his appointment as Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia on January 20, 2025, Mr.
Martin has abused his position in several ways, including dismissing charges against his own
client and using the threat of prosecution to intimidate government employees and chill the
speech of private citizens. Due to the serious nature of this misconduct, we request that the
Office of Disciplinary Counsel open an investigation to determine whether Mr. Martin, who is a
member of the D.C. Bar, violated applicable D.C. Rules of Professional Conduct and should be
subject to disciplinary action.
While in private practice, Mr. Martin appeared as defense counsel in cases related to the
January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.1
On January 21, 2025, Mr. Martin personally
submitted a motion to dismiss the eight felony counts and two misdemeanors against Joseph
Padilla, who had already been convicted and sentenced for these charges.2
While in private
practice, Mr. Martin represented Mr. Padilla in this very matter, and Mr. Martin sought this
dismissal while still representing Mr. Padilla.3
By not recusing himself from this matter, Mr.
Martin created an impermissible conflict of interest and appearance of impropriety by using his
new government office to favor his client, whom he was defending from the very charges he
sought to dismiss.
Similarly, Mr. Martin appeared as defense counsel for January 6 defendant William
Chrestman, a member of the Proud Boys’ Kansas City chapter.4
Mr. Chrestman was sentenced to
four and a half years imprisonment after pleading guilty to one count each of obstruction of an
official proceeding and threatening a federal officer.5
Mr. Martin only moved to withdraw from
his representation of Mr. Chrestman on February 4, 2025.6
This withdrawal occurred after Mr.
Martin initiated Project 1512, an internal review of the use of 18 U.S.C. §1512 obstruction
charges by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia in January 6 cases.7
By not
removing himself from the Chrestman matter in a timely fashion, Mr. Martin created an
appearance of impropriety.
There is also evidence indicating that Mr. Martin, since his appointment as Interim U.S.
Attorney, has communicated directly with January 6 defendants who were not his clients.
William Pope was charged with one felony and four misdemeanors for his actions on January 6.8
On January 28, 2025, Mr. Pope filed a post-dismissal notice to the court and motion to produce
casefiles which refers to ongoing discussions with Mr. Martin: “I have asked the new U.S.
Attorney if the government is opposed to me keeping these files with my case notes.…and I have
been told the government no longer considers these specific items sensitive for me.”9
In a later
filing, Mr. Pope asked the court to “direct Mr. Martin to file a statement on whether or not he
allowed me to keep all discovery files that are intertwined with my case notes.”10 If he
communicated directly with Mr. Pope about his case, Mr. Martin created the appearance of
impropriety because he may be called as a witness for the defendant in a matter involving the
office he currently leads. . .

“Steve Bunnell, an attorney for Kerkhoff, voluntarily identified his client by name. . .”

Steve Bunnell: Deep State attorney, Russiagate player:

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https://www.rajferber.com/steve-bunnell

Steve is a former General Counsel of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and a former Chief of the Criminal Division at the US Attorney’s Office in Washington, DC. Steve’s practice spans many of the most pressing issues facing businesses today, including cybersecurity and privacy, criminal antitrust, healthcare fraud, money laundering and financial institutions fraud, and securities fraud matters.

He has been the managing partner of the Washington DC Office of a major international law firm where he was also the Co-Chair of the firm’s Data Security and Privacy Practice. He has represented numerous corporate and individual clients in a broad variety of complex regulatory, civil and criminal enforcement and litigation matters and conducted dozens of sensitive internal investigations. He has also served as the Chief Legal Officer of a global fintech company.

As the chief legal officer for DHS from 2013 to January 2017, Steve advised senior Department leaders on a wide range of significant legal, policy, and operational issues, including cybersecurity, data privacy, CFIUS, aviation security, immigration and border security, customs enforcement, government procurement, and the protection of critical infrastructure.

In 2023, Steve was selected by the Deputy Secretary of Defense to lead the DoD Working Group on Commercially Available Information, which developed a DoD-wide policy framework governing the acquisition, use, privacy, security, and retention of any data that a DoD entity purchases from a commercial source, including data used in connection with AI applications. From 2022 to 2023, he was a Senior Advisor at the Homeland Security Department, where he advised the Secretary and Under Secretary for Intelligence & Analysis on emerging technologies, intelligence policy, and mission alignment issues.

Steve has an extensive history of public service, including more than 17 years as a federal prosecutor, during which he was lead or co-counsel in more than two dozen jury trials, conducted and supervised numerous white collar grand jury investigations in jurisdictions across the country. He served for three years as a Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division at the Justice Department, before becoming the first chief of the newly created Fraud and Public Corruption Section within the DC US Attorney’s Office, where he supervised all federal white collar and public corruption cases in the office. Two years later, he was promoted to be the Office’s Chief of the Criminal Division, where he oversaw all federal criminal prosecutions.
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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/mueller-grand-jury-means-russia-probe

What a Mueller grand jury means for the Russia probe
Aug 3, 2017 8:51 PM EST

Special counsel Robert Mueller is using a grand jury in Washington, D.C., to investigate Russian meddling in the presidential election, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The move marks a new phase in the probe into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Judy Woodruff asks former federal prosecutor Steve Bunnell what it means for President Trump and his associates.
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/29/is-harvard-refusing-to-tell-trump-admin-who-its-international-students-are

Is Harvard refusing to tell Trump admin who its international students are?
Trump alleged Harvard conceals international student data, but federal law mandates universities share such details.

Students walk outside Harvard Yard at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the United States, on April 15, 2025 [Faith Ninivaggi/Reuters]
By Maria Ramirez Uribe | Politifact

Published On 29 May 2025
29 May 2025

. . .On April 30, Steve Bunnell, a Harvard lawyer, responded to Homeland Security with information about 5,200 international students, according to Bunnell’s email included in the court filing. . .

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https://www.linkedin.com/posts/steve-bunnell-9090aa14_opinion-im-a-career-prosecutor-trump-activity-7295799284141092866-1VHf

Steve Bunnell
9mo

Ray Hulser has devoted 34 years to his country fighting crime and public corruption. He did so in the finest traditions of the Department of Justice — with great skill, diligence, and apolitical fairness. He brought hundreds of corrupt public officials to justice over the course of his career. The Department of Justice should be leveraging his expertise and celebrating his service not summarily firing him without any cause. What has happened to Ray and many others like him at DOJ is profoundly wrong and will weaken the pursuit of justice and lead to more crime and corruption.

Opinion | I’m a career prosecutor. Trump fired me, but I know what I did for the U.S.
washingtonpost.com

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https://www.linkedin.com/posts/steve-bunnell-9090aa14_no-the-president-cannot-issue-bills-of-attainder-activity-7316548475184185344-K-bh

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Who knew that the history of Bills of Attainder could be so rich and relevant? In a recently posted article in Just Security, Harold Hongju Koh, Fred Halbhuber and Inbar Pe’er present a carefully researched and compelling argument that the recent Executive Orders targeting law firms are unconstitutional Bills of Attainder. Their historical analysis should resonate powerfully with any judge (or Supreme Court Justice) who believes in staying true to the original historical meaning of the Constitution.
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"H*****y C*****n of Chappaqua, New York."

She lives near Hillary?

And her first public comment is given to Aaron C. Davis, representing Biden holdovers at DOJ:

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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/new-book-injustice-explores-trumps-decade-long-effort-to-politicize-doj

New book ‘Injustice’ explores Trump’s decade-long effort to politicize DOJ
Nov 4, 2025 6:35 PM EST

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In their new book, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists Carol Leonnig and Aaron Davis offer an investigation into the unraveling of the U.S. Justice Department. They reveal how, under Donald Trump, the nation’s top law enforcement agency was transformed from an institution built to protect the rule of law into one pressured to protect the president. They joined Geoff Bennett to discuss “Injustice.”
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“Aaron C. Davis:

Well, Garland came in and was widely respected for his jurisprudence and the way he had been so even-handed on the bench as a federal judge for decades. And they were hopeful that they would set a new tone.

And he really did from the get-go. Merrick Garland was the guy who had actually written some of the rules about separation between the White House and DOJ and trying to keep things on the straight and narrow, much as DOJ had done after Watergate.

But there was this kind of growing concern inside the department by many, not just low ranks, but mid ranks and some people very senior, that the department was moving too slow. And Merrick Garland had set out this mandate that we’re going to start from the ground up. We’re going to build this case up from the rioters, from the video that you can see, and we will get to the top.

But there was already evidence that they were not looking at from the very get-go, and that was where the — including the fake elector documents that had been submitted even before January 6. And it ultimately took 15 months for DOJ and FBI to get on the same page under Garland and agreed to begin to investigate those. . .

For one, so many senior prosecutors, FBI agents, the people who had worked their way up through decades, those decades of experience are gone. There are scores and scores of prosecutors, hundreds of agents who have all left since the beginning of this administration, many under pressure to do so.

And just that body of institutional knowledge, there’s been a huge brain drain inside the FBI in how they practice in protecting us as well as in the DOJ, with that experience, that understanding of, this is how we build cases, this is how we do it, this is how we do it fairly. And all that’s changed.

There’s also just a — there are so many people being brought in now who are being asked and, under a certain sense — there’s a loyalty test, we have written in the book, was administered to people who were brought in at the senior ranks of the FBI whether they supported Donald Trump or not. And so that’s just a very different way of people being promoted inside the DOJ right now.

And I think there’s a real concern that we’re just entering an era where politics and prosecutions could be mixed. And, also, there’s just no seeming end to this at the moment, because what does the next administration do when they come in? If it’s a Democratic one, do they keep the same people in place, as has been a stark standard of 10 years for the FBI director?

Or do they purge and bring in their own people? And then do you continue to weaken and just have an increasingly political body of people working inside the Department of Justice?. . .

https://redef.com/author/587952eb8ca72107aa46967c

Aaron C. Davis
@byaaroncdavis

Aaron C. Davis
@byaaroncdavis
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The Washington Post
Autopsy finds broken bones in Jeffrey Epstein’s neck, deepening questions around his death
Carol D. Leonnig & Aaron C. Davis
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Addded Aug 15, 2019
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Tony Romm, Craig Timberg & Aaron C. Davis
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Addded Dec 26, 2018
The Washington Post
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Addded Dec 13, 2018
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Robert O’Harrow Jr., Shawn Boburg & Aaron C. Davis
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Addded Nov 20, 2018
The Washington Post
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Shawn Boburg, Aaron C. Davis & Alice Crites
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Addded Nov 27, 2017
The Washington Post
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The forgot to put “innocent” in scare-quotes.