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Join John OConnor for fearless conservative political commentary and investigative analysis on OConnors Right Stand. Each week, get unfiltered perspectives on current events, government accountability, and judicial failures that mainstream media wont cover. Hard-hitting episodes featuring in-depth political analysis, breaking news commentary, and the conservative viewpoints you need to hear.
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Good Tuesday morning, Patriots, and welcome back to O'Connor's Write Stand. I'm your host, John O'Connor, software programmer by day, conservative truth seeker by night. I'll keep this short and sweet since we have a lot to cover, but this past weekend my fiance and I went to the Alcatraz East Crime Museum out in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. And honestly, I highly recommend going. But if you do go...
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Go on a weekday so you can actually spend the time reading up on the odd and bizarre artifacts they have, because the crowds, I swear, will just push you on and you'll have only a few seconds to look at some other things. Some of the stuff there was authentic medieval torture devices, O.J. Simpson's Bronco, Wayne Gacy's clown outfits, and even a real electric chair that was decommissioned. If you are interested, head on over to X at O'Connor Podcasts.
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I put up some of the pictures that I found intriguing and definitely let me know which item you were fascinated by. Today, we're talking about something that bothers me more the longer it goes unsolved. Four years ago, on January 5th and 6th, 2021, someone planted two pipe bombs in Washington, D.C., one at the Democratic National Committee headquarters, one at the Republican National Committee. These weren't fake devices.
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These weren't props. The FBI says they could have killed people. And despite having more surveillance footage, more forensic evidence, and more investigative resources than almost any case in American history, they still haven't found who did it. Or maybe they have, and they are just not telling us. The right stand starts now.
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Alright, first things first, let's establish what we actually know happened. No theories yet, just the verified timeline. January 5th, 2021. Evening hours. Someone dressed in a gray hooded sweatshirt, face mask, black gloves, and Nike Air Max Speed Turf shoes. Very distinctive shoes with the yellow logo. Walks through Capitol Hill carrying a backpack. At 7.54 PM,
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This person plants a pipe bomb outside the DNC headquarters. 22 minutes later at 8.16pm, they plant a second bomb outside the RNC headquarters. Both devices are 8 inch galvanized pipes with threaded caps filled with homemade black powder, potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal. Each one has a 60 minute kitchen timer attached. Now here's where gets peculiar, patriots.
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Bombs weren't discovered until the next day, January 6th, around 1pm. That's roughly 17 hours after they were planted. So just think about that for a second. If you attach a 60 minute kitchen timer to a at 8pm, when does that bomb go off? 9pm that same night, right? Basic math. But these bombs didn't go off. And when they were discovered,
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17 hours later, one of them, the RNC bomb, had a timer showing 20 minutes remaining according to the woman who found it. So either these timers got stuck, the batteries died, or something else is going on here that doesn't match the official FBI timeline. Now let's talk about what makes this case even more serious. On the morning of January 6, Kamala Harris,
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who was vice president-elect at the time, arrived at the DNC headquarters at 1130 AM. She was there for meetings. And regarding Kamala, there is a whole story there on why she avoids telling us the truth as to why exactly she was there. In my opinion, she's a part of this, but let's stick to what we know at this point. So, the Secret Service did their standard security sweep before she arrived. Two canine bomb-sniffing units went through the area.
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Multiple agents checked the perimeter. Standard procedure for protecting someone at that level. And they missed it. A pipe bomb was sitting on a bench about 20 feet from the building. Harris's motorcade drove within yards of it when she arrived. She was inside that building for nearly two hours before someone finally spotted the device around 1.05 p.m. Here's what bothers me about this, Patriots. After 9-11, we've spent oh
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what billions of dollars training canine units to detect explosives. We've developed technology, procedures, protocols. These are among the best trained bomb sniffing dogs in the world, working for the Secret Service, protecting the vice president-elect of the United States. according to House oversight report from January 2025, more than 10 Secret Service agents and two canine teams
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came within feet of that pipe bomb and never detected it. How does that happen? So what has the FBI done about this? Well, according to them, everything possible. They say they've conducted over 1,000 interviews. They've reviewed 39,000 video files. They've assessed more than 600 tips from the public. They identified the specific Nike shoes the suspect wore. Nike Air Max Speed Turf with the yellow logo.
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and tracked down that only 25,000 pairs were sold between August 2018 and January 2021. They determined the suspect is approximately five feet seven inches tall. They issued geofence warrants for cell phone data from the area. They analyzed cell tower information. They did forensic analysis on the bombs themselves. And according to the FBI, they traced the suspect into a metro station.
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identified the fare card that was used, followed that fare card to determine where the person got off, and used surveillance cameras to track them to a specific house in Northern Virginia. That's from former FBI agent Kyle Seraphine. He was on the surveillance team assigned to watch that house. He and his team staked it out for days, waiting for the right moment to interview the person of interest. And then, according to Seraphine, they were pulled off.
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No interview conducted. Team reassigned to follow up on low priority January 6th leads, basically tracking down people who were just standing around the Capitol that day. Seraphine has been very public about this. He says the FBI was one door away from the pipe bomber within days of January 6th, and was deliberately pulled away for no logical investigative reason. Those are his words. So,
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Why would you pull a surveillance team off a promising lead in a pipe bomb case? Here's where the FBI's explanation starts falling apart. Former FBI official Steve D'Antwano, was the assistant director in charge of the FBI's Washington Field House until the end of 2024, testified to Congress about this case. He said they tried to use cell phone data to identify the suspect, but the data from one of the major carriers was corrupted.
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We did a complete geofence, Steve said. We have complete data. Not complete, because there's some data that was corrupted by one of the providers, not purposely by them. Corrupted data? That's the explanation for why they couldn't identify someone who was clearly using a cell phone in the surveillance footage? But here's the problem, Patriots. The House Oversight Committee followed up with all the major cell carriers, and every single one of them said the same thing.
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We never provided corrupted data to the FBI and the FBI never told us there were any problems with the data we provided. So begs the question, who's lying? The FBI or the cell carriers? This isn't a small detail. The FBI is saying they can't solve this case because they got bad data from the cell companies. The cell companies are saying that's not true. Those two things cannot both be right.
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Now we get to what happened just over a week ago. And this is where things got really explosive. On November 8th, The Blaze published an investigation claiming they had identified the Pipe Bomber. They said they used Forensic Gate Analysis software, which analyzes the way someone walks, and got a 94 to 98 percent match to a specific person. According to The Blaze, that person is a former Capitol Police officer who left the forest
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shortly after January 6 and went to work for the CIA. The article included her name and photographs. Steve Baker, one of the reporters on the story, by the way, Baker is a former January 6 defendant who was pardoned by Trump. He posted on X that this was the biggest scandal and conspiracy in American history. Multiple Republican congressmen promoted the story. Representative Barry Ladermilk, who chairs the House subcommittee investigating January 6,
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posted about it. Representative Thomas Massey wrote that Capitol Police turned CIA, orchestrated the pipe bombs on January 6, and the FBI has covered it up for over four years. This thing went viral. Millions of views. Major conservative media coverage. And then the FBI pushed back. On November 14, just days after the blaze story, the FBI sent a letter to Representative
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They explained that they had been investigating a different person of interest. This was someone who took photographs near the RNC on January 5th, then took the Metro back to a friend's house in Northern Virginia using that friend's fare card. The FBI said they focused on that house because the person taking the photos used the homeowner's Metro card. That's why they had surveillance on the area, not because of the Capitol police officer who lived next door. Then, The Daily Wire did some follow-up reporting.
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They tracked down the Air Force veteran who owns that house and whose Metro card was used. He confirmed that yes, his friend borrowed his Metro card that day, but it wasn't the Capitol Police officer next door. So does that completely kill the blaze theory? Not necessarily. The gait analysis is still there, but it does remove one of the key pieces of circumstantial evidence. The fact that she lived next door to someone the FBI was already investigating.
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What we're left with is gait analysis, which as experts will tell you, isn't like fingerprints or DNA. It's not standalone evidence. It might be part of a case, but you still need more. Now, here's where this gets even more thought-provoking. Dan Bongino, you all know who he is. Former Secret Service agent, hugely popular conservative podcast host. For years I would listen to his podcast every single day.
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And Bongino, since the beginning, has been saying the pipe bombs were an inside job. He suggested they were training devices planted by law enforcement to test security protocols. He's accused the FBI of doctoring surveillance footage. He said the pipe bombs were an effort to frame MAGA people and create a narrative that Trump supporters were trying to assassinate Kamala Harris. Folks, this guy was an insider, Bongino said on his show.
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This wasn't an inside job, and it is the biggest scandal in FBI history. That was Dan Bongino, the podcast host. Now, Dan Bongino is FBI Deputy Director. He's literally the number two person at the FBI, helping oversee this very investigation. And just this past Sunday, FBI Director Cash Patel went on Fox News and said about the Pipe Bomber case, I think you'll see something on that front very soon.
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We can't reveal our ongoing investigation. Something's coming, Patriots. Something's coming. Let's talk about one of the main theories here, that these bombs were never meant to explode, that they were planted as a diversion. Here's the timeline again. The bombs were discovered right around 1 p.m. on January 6th. That's the exact same time that things were starting to get chaotic at the Capitol. Protesters were breaching the outer perimeter. Police were getting overwhelmed.
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and then suddenly, pipe bombs discovered at both party headquarters. What happens next? Bomb squads get diverted from the Capitol, tactical teams respond to the DNC and RNC, canine units get polled, resources that would have been at the Capitol are now a quarter mile away dealing with these devices. Representative Loudermilk, who's done extensive investigation on this, says,
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The single greatest action that facilitated the protestors ease of entry into the Capitol on January 6th was the placing of the pipe bombs and the diversionary effect that had on security resources which would have otherwise been at the Capitol. Think about it from that angle. If you wanted to make it easier for protestors to get into the Capitol, what would you do? You'd create an emergency somewhere else that pulls security resources away. And if that was your plan,
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Would you want the bombs to actually explode the night before? No. You'd want them discovered on January 6th, right when you need the diversion. That's one theory. I'm not saying it's proven, but it does explain a lot. Here's what frustrates me about this case. Capitol Hill is one of the most heavily surveilled areas in the entire country. Security cameras everywhere. Traffic cameras. Private building cameras. The FBI has access to all of it.
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They have released some footage, grainy clips showing the suspect walking through an alley, sitting on a bench near where the DNC bomb was planted. But experts have pointed out something interesting. The FBI released footage at one frame per second. Normal security camera footage runs at 15 frames per second or higher. When you drop it to one frame per second, you lose massive amounts of detail.
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You can't analyze movements properly. You can't see the fine details of what someone's doing. Why would the FBI deliberately reduce the frame rate before releasing it to the public? And here's the bigger question. They have shown us footage of the suspect near where the bombs were placed. But they haven't released footage of the actual planting of either bomb. You know there has to be cameras that capture that. So where's that footage?
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They have video of the suspect appearing to use a cell phone, but they claim they can't identify the person through phone records because of corrupted data. They tracked the suspect to a metro station and identified the specific fare card used, but we haven't seen that evidence. It feels like every time you ask, what about this evidence? The answer is either, we can't release that, or that data was corrupted, or we're still investigating. After four years.
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Patriots, let me bring this home. I work in software. I solve problems for a living. And when I can't solve a problem, it usually comes down to one of three things. Either I don't have the information I need, or I'm approaching it the wrong way, or, and this is key, I'm not actually trying to solve it. Does the FBI have the information? Absolutely. They have more surveillance footage, more forensic evidence, more investigative resources that
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than any law enforcement agency in human history. They found hundreds of January 6th protesters from social media selfies and hotel records. They tracked down the 1993 World Trade Center bombers by finding a partial VIN number under four stories of rubble. They caught the Unabomber after 17 years when his brother recognized his writing style. But they can't find someone who planted two pipe bombs in one of the most surveilled locations in America.
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Wearing distinctive shoes that only 25,000 pairs had been sold? Carrying identifiable backpacks and leaving behind pristine non-detonated devices? I don't buy it. Here's what we know for certain. Kyle Seraphin says surveillance teams were pulled off promising leads. Cell carriers say they never provided corrupted data. The FBI won't release critical footage. Key evidence keeps disappearing or being explained away.
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And most importantly, look at the selective prosecution. The FBI has arrested over 1,500 people connected to January 6. They have used facial recognition, social media posts, hotel records, cell phone data, credit card transactions. They tracked down people who just walked through open doors and took selfies. But the person who planted actual bombs, still a mystery after four years. That's not incompetence, Patriots. That's a choice.
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Here's why I think we are finally going to get some answers. When Cash Patel became FBI director, one of his first moves was turning over documents that Christopher Wray's FBI had refused to provide to Congress. Hundreds of pages related to the pipe bombs, the targeting of Catholics, the surveillance of parents at school board meetings. In March 2025, Patel handed over what one congressional aide called a truckload of documents. Then in September,
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He released the FBI's lab report on the pipe bombs, the one that shows they had destructive potential, but carefully avoids calling them viable. He released witness statements that contradict the official timeline. He's been transparent in ways the previous FBI leadership absolutely refused to be. And now you've got Dan Bongino as deputy director, a guy who spent years calling this an inside job on his podcast.
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When Patel says, you'll see something on that front very soon, I believe him. Well, that's it for today, Patriots. Four years after two pipe bombs were planted at the DNC and RNC, we still don't have arrests. We still don't have answers. But we're finally getting new information, new transparency, and leadership at the FBI that seems willing to actually solve this case instead of burying it.
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The pipe bomber story isn't just about two bombs that didn't explode. It's about selective justice. It's about an FBI that prosecuted January 6 protesters with ruthless efficiency while letting the person who planted actual explosives remain free. It's about evidence that disappears and explanations that just don't add up. And it's about whether we are finally going to get the truth. If you want to support the show, head over to o'connor'srightstand.com.
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and follow me on X at O'Connor podcasts. Deep dives every Tuesday and Thursday. Our quick strike podcasts are every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Until Thursday, Patriots, stay strong, stay informed and stay unapologetically American. This is John O'Connor signing off.