Congress is under increased pressure to secure internal FBI records related to the January 6 pipe bomb investigation. This comes after a former agent detailed specific documents that he believes should be subpoenaed. Meanwhile, Representative Thomas Massie has not indicated whether he will request these documents.
Former FBI Special Agent Kyle Seraphin told The Dallas Express via telephone that congressional committees should urgently subpoena surveillance logs, case files, and internal communications, which he said would reveal what the Bureau “knew and when” as investigators closed in on early persons of interest in the case.
Seraphin said Congress “should subpoena the 302 for person of interest 2 and 3,” along with surveillance records generated by the Washington Field Office’s ID-21 squad and documents from CI-14, a squad he said assisted the case.
“They should also be looking for any emails between the case agents that were working on the JTTF [Joint Terrorism Task Force] and then whatever coordination was going on between CI-14, so those are the minimum records they should be subpoenaing,” Seraphin said.
Only a committee possesses subpoena authority in Congress, according to Congressional rules. Massie does not chair a committee in the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress, but members may publicly urge their committees to issue subpoenas or request investigative action.
Massie did not respond to The Dallas Express when asked whether he would call on leadership to subpoena the documents Seraphin identified.
Seraphin’s comments came as the Bureau’s handling of the case drew fresh scrutiny following reporting published November 8 by Blaze News, which cited several intelligence sources and claimed a former Capitol Police officer was a forensic gait match for the suspect.
The outlet additionally reported Seraphin said that investigators, including himself, were “one door away” from the then-suspected bomber within days of the attack, a finding the outlet said raised questions about why agents were pulled from the location.
Seraphin told The Dallas Express he believes Congress would be able to determine whether “a logical investigation took place or if it did not” if the records he listed were obtained.
“I think what they’ve done is particularly solid,” he said of independent analyses. “For me, there’s no logical explanation that my team was outside the door unless the FBI got us really close.”
His interview followed two days of public friction between Massie and senior FBI leadership.
Congressman Massie,
When Director Patel and I entered on duty in our leadership positions in the FBI we had our hands full, but we were happy to be part of the President’s team, and we still are.
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In a November 13 post, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said he had spoken twice with Massie and offered an in-person briefing on the investigation. Bongino alleged Massie “continue[s] to imply that the Director and I are targeting investigators in the case,” and wrote, “This is disgusting, even by the low standards many have for politicians.”
Bongino said the Bureau recently conducted new reviews of the case and was “passionate about solving this case,” adding, “We would love to have you as a partner in this mission, rather than a dog barking behind a fence.”
The post followed Massie’s November 12 message stating he had received a letter from an attorney representing what he described as the “most recent FBI whistleblower regarding the J6 pipe bomb investigation.”
The letter, apparently written by attorney Kurt Siuzdak, alleged that senior Washington Field Office leadership had scheduled a management meeting “to identify the FBI whistleblower” who made a protected disclosure to Congress and argued that such an effort “is a reprisal and violation of 28 CFR part 27.” Siuzdak stated that identifying the whistleblower “serves only one purpose, which is to allow FBI management to retaliate.”
The FBI has faced sustained criticism over the pace and direction of its nearly five-year-old investigation. Former Director Christopher Wray said the Bureau conducted an exhaustive inquiry and claimed the January 6 attack was linked to what he described as white-supremacy-motivated domestic violent extremism, according to prior congressional testimony.
Seraphin told The Dallas Express that obtaining the underlying investigative files is essential for lawmakers to assess whether credible leads were advanced, sidelined, or misread, including surveillance data tied to Metro transit records and early persons of interest.
“I’d be real curious what Congress comes up with when they ask for this file because they should get it,” Seraphin said.