Congressional investigators in a report released this week said that they have “serious concerns” regarding how law enforcement officials responded to two alleged pipe bombs that were placed a day before the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach.
The report released by House Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) on Monday largely faulted the Democrat-dominated House subcommittee to investigate the Capitol breach, accusing it of deleting records and interviews, not turning over recordings, suppressing evidence, and questioned the U.S. Capitol Police response into the pipe bombs found near the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee buildings on Jan. 6.
“Despite the threat the pipe bombs posed and the possible role they played in diverting resources away from the Capitol, the Select Committee invested almost no resources into investigating the pipe bombs. In fact, the [Jan. 6] Select Committee’s 845-page report, astonishingly, only referenced the pipe bombs five times in passing,” the report stated….