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Bondi: Feds sat on J6 pipe bomb evidence for FOUR years under Biden regime

December 5, 2025 | | Print Article

Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed on Thursday that the federal government had been sitting on evidence pertaining to the Jan. 6 pipe bombs for the last four years.

“Today’s arrest happened because the Trump administration has made this case a priority,” she said. “The total lack of movement on this case in our nation’s Capitol [under the Biden administration] undermined the public trust of our enforcement agencies.”

“This cold case languished for four years until Director Patel and Deputy Director Bongino came to the FBI,” she added. “The FBI, along with U.S. Attorney Pirro and all of our prosecutors, have worked tirelessly for months, sifting through evidence that had been sitting at the FBI with the Biden administration for four long years.”

She later reiterated this point again when being questioned by Mary Margaret Olohan of The Daily Wire.

“[E]vidence has been sitting there collecting dust,” she said. “This wasn’t a new tip, it wasn’t some new evidence. It was the hard work of President Trump’s administration, Deputy Director Bongino and Director Patel.”

“I watched them from day one, come in here and say, we are going to solve this crime. And they did, working hand in hand with U.S. Attorney Pirro and all of our great attorneys,” she added.

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Speaking after her, FBI Director Kash Patel reiterated that the FBI under his leadership “did not discover any new information” — that it simply “reexamined every piece of evidence, sifted through all the data, something that the prior administration refused and failed to do.”

Speaking next, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino suggested that the Biden administration had purposefully deprioritized the pipe bomb case.

“This is what it’s like when you work for a President who tells you to go get the bad guys and stop focusing on other extraneous things not related to law enforcement,” Bongino said.

All this said, tracking down the suspect, Brian Cole, wasn’t easy.

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“The amount of effort the FBI and our partners devoted to identifying the pipe bomber cannot be overstated,” Darren Cox, the assistant director in charge of the Washington Field Office of the FBI said. “We dove into more than 3 million lines of data to come up with this suspect.”

Local D.C. police chief Pamela Smith likewise noted that her investigators reviewed “countless, probably thousands of hours of CCTV footage from around the DNC and RNC headquarters.”

“This case involved millions of pieces of data, and it is a huge win, because it was like finding a needle in a haystack,” U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said.

“There were 233,000 black end caps of the type that were used…the FBI had to go through the sale of every one of them to try to find commonality with an individual, along with the purchase of the pipe itself, the cap ends, the wires, the steel and the nine-volt batteries. Every one of those had to be mined and re-mined to the point where we were able to then connect,” she added.

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According to reports, the Jan. 6 pipe bomb suspect, Brian Cole, lived with his mother in Dale City, Virginia, and worked as a bail bondsman.

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