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Representatives Thomas Massie and Barry Loudermilk have unveiled a startling report on January 2, 2025, titled, “Four Years Later: Examining the State of the Investigation into the RNC and DNC Pipe Bombs.” This report reveals serious security oversights and criticizes the FBI for a lack of progress in their investigation. Massie criticized the FBI’s inaction, stating, “The media should highlight the FBI’s inefficiency over the past five years regarding this investigation.” The findings are eye-opening: Secret Service agents and dogs failed to detect a bomb near the Democratic National Committee (DNC), allowing Vice President Kamala Harris’s motorcade to pass perilously close; Capitol Police permitted more than 40 vehicles and 10 pedestrians to enter the area around the devices; and, shockingly, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s motorcade traversed an ongoing bomb scene.
The report reveals that early in the investigation, the FBI identified several persons of interest, including someone who photographed the Republican National Committee (RNC) dumpster before the bomb was planted, a vehicle that matched the suspect’s description, and a Nike Air Max Speed Turf sneaker owner spotted nearby. Additionally, five individuals had cell data that aligned with the bomber’s route. Despite this wealth of information, the FBI did not act on these leads for years. Claims of “corrupted cell data” were debunked as phone carriers confirmed providing accurate information. Massie remarked that the timing of recent arrests “raises more questions than it answers” about the overlooked leads, noting that their investigation was restricted from examining the Capitol Police.
Seraphin: DOJ’s New Suspect Looks Like a Patsy
On Clint Russell’s “Liberty Lockdown” podcast, Seraphin explains he worked January 6 surveillance on the FBI’s Special Operations Group and was assigned to the original “persons of interest” in the pipe bomb case. He notes, describes three key figures: a retired Air Force E‑9 in Falls Church, Virginia (Person of Interest 3); an itinerant Christian preacher who used that man’s Metro card and Uber account (Person of Interest 2); and the hooded bomber figure the public has seen on video (Person of Interest 1).
Former FBI agent Kyle Seraphin recalled how one person of interest on January 5 exited the Capitol South Metro, swapped a MAGA hat for a hunting cap, sunglasses, and a mask, and then made a direct path to the dumpster where the first pipe bomb was discovered at the RNC, capturing photos. The FBI reportedly dismissed this individual by claiming he was photographing “numbers” for a nonexistent book, despite taking only three photos at significant locations on the bomber’s route.
By contrast, Trump’s DOJ now wants Americans to believe a 30‑year‑old who is autistic, lives with his family, favors red Crocs and has a distinctive gait is the same smooth‑moving figure in the hoodie. Seraphin notes the FBI has a long record of coercing confessions from mentally impaired targets. “It doesn’t hold any water for me,” he said, arguing that the case looks like another manufactured “win” for a bureau under fire.
Steve Baker’s Leads: Capitol Police, CIA and Altered Evidence
Previous reports by National File linked former Capitol Police officer Shauni Kerkhoff, accused of using rubber rounds on protesters during the January 6 events, to the pipe bomber through gait analysis and proximity to another person of interest’s residence in Falls Church. Seraphin confirmed that The Blaze reported a gait match analysis connecting a Capitol Police officer to the suspect, who lived next door to the third person of interest, a place Seraphin had visited four years earlier as an FBI agent. He called this situation “completely bizarre.”
Seraphin also highlighted how the FBI allegedly tampered with surveillance footage of the bomber, degrading the quality deliberately. This involved reducing frame rates, changing aspect ratios from 16:9 to 4:3, and blurring faces at critical moments, which he described as evidence tampering when speaking to Russell.
Independent analyst “Acrobat” then tracked two Capitol Police counter‑surveillance officers who, on January 6, drove lights and sirens before the public bomb call and marched straight to the exact bush where the bomber had lingered for 77 seconds the night before, checked under it twice, and then went directly to the bench hiding the device, finding it in roughly 11 minutes.
Those officers and their chain of command were later rewarded: the bomb squad leader moved into Yogananda Pittman’s former slot running Capitol Police intelligence; the officer who “found” the device became liaison to the FBI; and the congressional staffer who led the Hill’s internal pipe bomb review is now an assistant director at the bureau.
Massie has publicly confirmed that his new House inquiry was only allowed to reopen the case on the condition that it would not subpoena or investigate Capitol Police at all — an extraordinary carve‑out around the agency at the center of the bomb discovery.
Trump’s DOJ Sides With the Bureau, Not the Truth
Instead of forcing the bureau to answer why it altered evidence, cleared obvious recon actors, and rewarded the very people tied to the bomb discovery, Trump’s DOJ is helping deliver a tidy narrative for the same security state that framed January 6 as an excuse for permanent domestic crackdown. Until Massie’s questions are answered — and Baker, Seraphin and other serious investigators are heard instead of harassed — the January 6 pipe bomb remains not a solved crime, but a live indictment of the FBI, the Capitol Police, and the political class that keeps protecting them.
For a full in-depth analysis, watch Clint Russell’s interview with Kyle Seraphin:
