Anything that makes the FBI look bad is a win. It deserves to be excoriated for the years of partisan antics and illegal spy operations against those who are rivals of the Democratic Party. The FBI was once our nation’s preeminent law enforcement and domestic intelligence agency, with a strict adherence to apoliticism and high standards of professionalism in its investigative work. No longer. Half the country rightly sees the FBI as a tool used by Democrats to enact retribution against their enemies.
Right now, the bureau is hell on wheels on the January 6 defendants, some of whom are arguably political prisoners. Simple acts of trespassing have been upgraded to charges akin to the Oklahoma City bombing. Reported slam-dunk cases against child pornography have been ditched to go after people who walked around the Capitol Building, confirmed by tens of thousands of hours of tortuously boring security footage. You can see why Democrats wanted it buried: it didn’t fit their narrative that this was the modern-day version of the firing on Fort Sumter. But what about the pipe bomber, who left supposed explosive devices at the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican parties? The FBI can’t find that person, even after it’s found 1,200 January 6 defendants.
The methods and means the FBI has at its disposal to find people are vast, so don’t tell me how this individual wearing a mask has stumped the agency. The bureau is also being assisted by an army of internet sleuths who are finding supposed January 6 suspects based on articles of clothing they’ve worn and social media posts. And yet, pipe man is a mystery. You know where I’m going with this: he’s an FBI agent, isn’t he/she/ze/whatever the hell pronoun? There were informants at the Capitol on January 6, so many that the FBI had to do an audit.
Any trust in the FBI died during the 2016 election when it peddled information about Donald Trump being compromised by the Kremlin that was knowingly false. The brass knew these allegations were shoddy, being lifted from the pages of the infamous Steele Dossier, a Clinton campaign-funded opposition research file that’s riddled with Russian disinformation. Its author—former MI6 operative Christopher Steele—got played badly by his Kremlin sources, and the rest is history.
Ex-FBI Director James Comey made enemies on both sides of the river. The FBI’s counterintelligence probe into Trump infuriated Republicans, while the FBI’s review of Hillary Clinton’s unauthorized email server while she served as secretary of state gave Democrats fits. His decision to rip Clinton for her irresponsibility with this email system angered Democrats further, with his refusal to charge her not making Republicans feel any better about how the FBI was conducting itself. President Trump later fired him. Even before we knew that the FBI had illegally spied on Trump campaign officials through doctored evidence to maintain FISA warrants, the credibility of this agency was dead.
The FBI could find hundreds of people entering the Capitol through sophisticated facial recognition. Even those wearing masks or having their faces obscured were caught based on social media activity and clothing purchases, but pipe bomb man has remained elusive. It’s also as laughable as the White House, with a heavy security net, being unable to find who brought cocaine within a nose hair of the Situation Room in the West Wing. The pipe bombs at the DNC and RNC remain a mystery. Who snorted coke in the White House got away with it. January 6 defendants were hunted down like the humans in “Planet of the Apes.”
What a clown show. The FBI is offering $500,000 for any information leading to the arrest of its colleague, err, I mean, suspect—the pipe bomb suspect.
