A former FBI agent claims he was able to locate the person connected to pipe bombs planted at the Republican and Democrat National Committee on or around the January 6 protests but was not allowed to interview the suspect.
Kyle Seraphin told The Daily Wire that he and the FBI surveillance team he led were able to find the person whom they believed planted the bombs through a Metro fare card and a license plate by following security footage. The card and license plate traced back to the same person, a retired Air Force chief master sergeant now working as a contractor with security clearance.
Though it was possible that the retired officer may not have been the bomber, Seraphin believes that the man held the key to uncovering the bomber’s true identity.
According to Seraphin, his team staked out the individual’s house for days, but the FBI denied attempts to interview the suspect. Instead, his team was taken off the target and told to investigate minor January 6 protesters.
“Allegedly someone threw bombs around the Capitol which could have killed congressmen or a busload of nuns or anything, and the answer is you can’t follow this guy around — you have to go to headquarters and read ‘leads’ where someone said ‘I might’ve went to high school with some guy that was standing around the Capitol’?” an incredulous Seraphin remarked to The Daily Wire.
Seraphin expressed difficulty believing that the FBI could not track down the bomber during the last three years.
“They can do telephonic capture and triangulate your phone in real-time. … The bureau is far too competent to fail this,” he contended. “When they had the World Trade Center bombing in ’93 they went under four stories of rubble and were able to find a partial VIN number [sic] that they used to track it down to the people responsible. And you’re telling me you had a pristine, non-detonated bomb and they couldn’t find anything on it?”
Under questioning from the House Judiciary Committee last June, former head of the FBI’s Washington Field Office Steven D’Antuono took issue with the idea that the FBI failed to or intentionally did not pursue a lead to its conclusion, calling out Seraphin by name.
“People like Kyle Seraphin and others that are not a case agent, have no knowledge of the case, have no knowledge of what happened in the case, he also made another accusation too that there was an individual with a Metro card. My understanding is all that was chased down. There was a lead that was chased down, but he says that we didn’t chase it down. He has no clue what we did,” D’Antuono told the committee.
Seraphin also said that the FBI told his team early on that the bombs did not function and would not detonate.
“It was an officer safety question. You’re gonna work a case differently if they’re not real, you can get closer,” Seraphin said, per The Daily Wire.
Earlier in January, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) released a video possessed by the Judiciary Committee that appears to show the discovery of the pipe bomb at the Democrat National Committee. In the footage, the officers who are seemingly first made aware of the bomb show little to no alarm and allow pedestrians to walk near the device.
Here’s the long version of the video I released:https://t.co/oE5OiMJ7OF
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) January 19, 2024
Commenting on the video, Seraphin said, “That’s not how you react to a bomb, I don’t care who you are,” and that the officers’ behavior is evidence that they had reason to “believe it wasn’t real.”
The video was enough for Tucker Carlson and investigative reporter Darren Beattie to suggest that the government was involved in the planting of the bombs.
Concerns that the federal government has succumbed to political motivations and may have intentionally escalated the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, are not uncommon, as The Dallas Express has reported.
The Dallas Express reached out to the FBI for more details about how the metro card lead was resolved. In a reply, Kelly Conner, public affairs specialist with the bureau, said the FBI would not comment on that specific question but referred DX to the D.C. Field Office’s January 4, 2024 statement:
“Three years into the investigation, identifying the perpetrator of this attempted attack remains a priority for the FBI, ATF, MPD, and the USCP,” it read, adding that there is a $500,000 reward for information leading to the bomber’s arrest and conviction.
