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BumRushDaShow

(149,933 posts)
Thu Jan 2, 2025, 08:04 PM Jan 2025

FBI releases new video, information in hunt for Jan. 6 pipe bomber

Source: ABC News

January 2, 2025, 6:01 PM


The FBI has released new information and video of the individual who planted pipe bombs outside the headquarters of both the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee on the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, the bureau announced Thursday, after nearly four years of investigation that has led to little in the way of substantive leads about the suspect's identity.

A video compilation produced by the FBI shows a new angle of the suspect placing one of the pipe bombs outside of the DNC headquarters just blocks from the Capitol, as well as an enhanced map showing the route the suspect walked that evening.

The video further includes a graphic showing the FBI's estimate of the suspect's height -- which agents have calculated is 5 feet 7 inches, and animation showing the specific pair of Nike shoes the person was wearing.

"We recognize that it's been nearly four years since we started investigating this case, and we have been helped considerably by tips from the public," FBI Washington Field Office Assistant Director in Charge David Sundberg said in an interview with ABC News. "Those tips have helped us further the investigation, but they have not, as of yet, allowed us to identify the suspect. But over the course of four years, allegiances can change, and people might have information they didn't think was important in the past, and that's why we are releasing new footage."

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi-releases-new-video-information-hunt-jan-6/story?id=117275361

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FBI releases new video, information in hunt for Jan. 6 pipe bomber (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Jan 2025 OP
Who all asked for pardons from Trump before he left office in January 2021? Attilatheblond Jan 2025 #1
Oh yes there were some begging for a Trump pardon. Irish_Dem Jan 2025 #5
the shoes she wore at the white house meeting seem familiar rampartd Jan 2025 #7
MTG is 5ft 3in. Irish_Dem Jan 2025 #9
Me Googling how tall Marjorie Taylor Greene is. Self Esteem Jan 2025 #2
That has been my understanding of her height. n/t John1956PA Jan 2025 #4
thanks, you saved me a google rampartd Jan 2025 #8
I did the same thing! dflprincess Jan 2025 #16
It's not SCantiGOP Jan 2025 #19
I got 53 as well..... AZ8theist Jan 3 #23
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Jan 2025 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Jan 2025 #6
I really don't understand this. underpants Jan 2025 #10
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Jan 2025 #13
If you have evidence of MTG editing her height stats, please post links Fiendish Thingy Jan 2025 #14
Yes, thank you SCantiGOP Jan 2025 #20
For those who are curious.... reACTIONary Jan 2025 #21
Is that a bad built butch body? cpamomfromtexas Jan 2025 #11
I'd take the height estimate to be very accurate bucolic_frolic Jan 2025 #12
Why bother. progressoid Jan 2025 #15
What are you asking? Renew Deal Jan 2025 #22
It's been 4 years. progressoid Jan 3 #25
I don't buy the "nothing matters" narrative Renew Deal Jan 3 #26
Physicality indicates to me that it was a woman. MMW NotHardly Jan 2025 #17
To be clear, I mean size, physical movement, balance...etc. NotHardly Jan 2025 #18
Well, so much for the "miracle of AI" if it can't solve this case. usonian Jan 3 #24
The actor may have been communicating on a cell phone. John1956PA Jan 3 #27
I expect that Marcy Wheeler gab13by13 Jan 3 #28

Attilatheblond

(5,562 posts)
1. Who all asked for pardons from Trump before he left office in January 2021?
Thu Jan 2, 2025, 08:07 PM
Jan 2025

Weren't there some GOP House Reps asking?

Irish_Dem

(67,106 posts)
5. Oh yes there were some begging for a Trump pardon.
Thu Jan 2, 2025, 08:15 PM
Jan 2025

One who wasn't even sworn in yet when much of the J6 planning took place but was hanging around DC.
Sworn in a few days before J6 and was grinning like a loon the whole time the insurrection took place on the floor of congress.

rampartd

(1,803 posts)
7. the shoes she wore at the white house meeting seem familiar
Thu Jan 2, 2025, 08:23 PM
Jan 2025

and video of her gait matches the pipe bomber. add that she is stupid enough to forget to arm the bombs...........

how tall is this mystery congresscritter?

Irish_Dem

(67,106 posts)
9. MTG is 5ft 3in.
Thu Jan 2, 2025, 08:24 PM
Jan 2025

So she is shorter than the FBI picture is showing.
Unless she had a hat on underneath the hoodie.

dflprincess

(28,738 posts)
16. I did the same thing!
Thu Jan 2, 2025, 10:33 PM
Jan 2025

I still think the FBI's estimate of the bomber's height could be wrong.

SCantiGOP

(14,417 posts)
19. It's not
Thu Jan 2, 2025, 11:02 PM
Jan 2025

There is a trashcan in the picture, so a very simple computation to relate its height to the person next to it.

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underpants

(189,659 posts)
10. I really don't understand this.
Thu Jan 2, 2025, 08:26 PM
Jan 2025

So neither of the pipe bombs exploded - RNC & DNC headquarters.


Every batch of steel pipe of any size has a HEAT report. Pipe bombs are made with steel pipe “nipples” (threads on each end)so there should be a trace on where these nipples or pipe was shipped to.

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Fiendish Thingy

(19,023 posts)
14. If you have evidence of MTG editing her height stats, please post links
Thu Jan 2, 2025, 10:03 PM
Jan 2025

Otherwise, please drop the CT nonsense.

SCantiGOP

(14,417 posts)
20. Yes, thank you
Thu Jan 2, 2025, 11:04 PM
Jan 2025

Some of the comments here are so absurd I assume they are trolls just trying to make the site look ridiculous.

cpamomfromtexas

(1,400 posts)
11. Is that a bad built butch body?
Thu Jan 2, 2025, 08:48 PM
Jan 2025

Walks like a female but I see no boobs, does anyone else see?. How accurate fo you think the height estimate would be?

bucolic_frolic

(49,492 posts)
12. I'd take the height estimate to be very accurate
Thu Jan 2, 2025, 09:06 PM
Jan 2025

They can triangulate the location and height of the camera, the height of the perp, the park bench height, the trees.

That being said perp makes that look like a rather short park bench.

Boobs? How much can be read into that. Minimizer bra, jogger bra. What caught my attention were the videos going around corners. The figure really leaned to the inside. Would seem to me a characteristic that could be attributed to, perhaps, gender, fitness, or ethnicity - not perfect correlation but a piece of the puzzle .

progressoid

(51,185 posts)
25. It's been 4 years.
Fri Jan 3, 2025, 01:15 PM
Jan 3

Even if they do find whomever did this, Trump will just pardon them. Why waste the time and resources.

Renew Deal

(83,707 posts)
26. I don't buy the "nothing matters" narrative
Fri Jan 3, 2025, 01:32 PM
Jan 3

I doubt Trump would pardon someone that left bombs around DC, and if he does, it says more about him than the bomber.

usonian

(16,835 posts)
24. Well, so much for the "miracle of AI" if it can't solve this case.
Fri Jan 3, 2025, 02:54 AM
Jan 3

Call me when it does something significant like this.

John1956PA

(3,877 posts)
27. The actor may have been communicating on a cell phone.
Fri Jan 3, 2025, 01:35 PM
Jan 3

The actor meandered quite a bit, perhaps to burn up time while the getaway car made it to the rendezvous point.

gab13by13

(27,374 posts)
28. I expect that Marcy Wheeler
Fri Jan 3, 2025, 02:02 PM
Jan 3

will soon post an article listing all the steps that Merrick Garland has taken the past 4 years.

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