The media was flooded with stories on Capitol Hill’s events of January 6th. Two pipe bombs were planted next to the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee buildings. This could have been a significant event. Although neither bomb was detonated, the mystery of the pipe bomber remains.
Many media outlets speculated about the mystery surrounding the identity of the pipe bomber and the reasons why the FBI failed to find him, despite performing extensive investigations. You can see stories about the investigation into the pipe bomber suspect at such sources as CBS News, the Associated Press (via PBS), and The Atlantic.
The common thread in all these stories is the lack of curiosity as to why the FBI didn’t use a common investigative method to find the bomber. A prime example of this strange lack of curiosity was shown by AtlanticElaine Godfrey, writer in “The Capitol Hill Bomber is Still at Large” Thursday story
FBI investigators have reviewed hundreds of hours’ worth of footage and spoken to more than 900 people in connection with the case. They’re reportedly studying the way the person walks in the camera footage, hoping to find a suspect match through gait analysis. But they’ve made little progress, and they’re asking members of the public for help. “We’re still nose to the grindstone here and trying to find this individual, trying to bring the person to justice,” Steven D’Antuono, the assistant director of the FBI’s D.C. field office, told the Associated Press this week. “But there is hopefully maybe somebody still out there that knows the person or sees the video again.”
Amid all this kvetching by Godfrey about the FBI failing to find the suspect despite an intensive investigation, she fails to ask a very obvious question: Why hasn’t the FBI attempted to track the pipe bomber’s GPS movements via the phone pinging off the cell phone towers? The FBI provided a surveillance camera that tracked the movements of the suspect, including the one shown below. We now know that he used his cellphone at least five times.
And since the suspect’s locations and times were known from video surveillance it should be a rather easy matter to find out where he started out from and where he went after he planted the bombs via GPS tracking as well as perhaps what phone number(s) he called. It is not a crazy idea. As WUSA9 reveals many Capitol Hill citizens were tracked on Jan 6, this technology was used to track them.
WASHINGTON — If you were anywhere near the Capitol on Jan. 6, you may be getting a knock on your door from the FBI.
D.C. Woman claims that an agent called her neighbor, and told her investigators were looking into people’s cell phones.
Bree Stevens, an investigator in legal matters who lives close to Capitol Hill said, “They don’t call first. They just come to you house.”
Stevens claimed that an FBI agent informed her that they had reached out to all those whose phones were located near the Capitol during these riots.
If the FBI is able to use cell tower tracking technology to locate grandmothers who were just sitting around the Capitol Building on January 6th, why hasn’t it been used to search for the pipe bomber as well? Elaine Godfrey or any other journalist writing about “mystery of the pipe-bomber” might try something more real: pick up the phone, call the FBI/January 6 Committee and ask about this.
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