On 6/7/23 the House Judiciary Committee interviewed Steven D’Antuono, former FBI Assistant Director in Charge of the DC field office.
Most of the interview covered topics such as the warrant served at Mar a Lago, but I asked questions about the J6 pipe bombs.
If you are just becoming familiar with the rapidly collapsing narrative of the J6 pipe bombs, I suggest reading @DarrenJBeattie’s comprehensive and insightful coverage of this topic.
The purpose of this thread is to post the original transcript of my interview with the FBI ADIC.
In addition to reading this transcript, you might want to watch my questioning of the ATF director and the FBI director. I also suggest watching the video of the discovery of the DNC pipe bomb.
I’ll post those three videos at the end of this thread.
Mr. D’Antuono was in charge of the Washington DC FBI office from 2019 (just before J6 2021) until November of 2022. He was in charge of the agents who were conducting the J6 pipe bomb investigation. Previously he was the Special Agent in Charge of the FBI office in Michigan.
A one hour kitchen timer on a bomb allegedly placed 17 hours earlier. How could that be operable?
Could the detonator even function?
Did it contain explosives?
Remarkable timing of discovery.
Here I asked about the video my staff and I found regarding the discovery of the second pipe bomb.
Would the people who discovered the bombs be suspects?
Do we have all of the video at the best resolution?
Did the FBI release false or incomplete information?
Did they use cell phone data to find the suspect they say they think planted the bombs on J5?
He tells me the cell phone data was corrupted.
Follow up questions about the corrupted cell phone data and the limited DNC video
Karlin Younger question.
Who to follow up with at the FBI?
The last two pages of my portion of the interview.
Transcribed interviews like this are not always released to the public. I want to thank Chairman Jordan and his staff for releasing this transcript.
Here’s my questioning of the ATF director about these pipe bombs:
Here’s my questioning of FBI Director Wray about the pipe bombs:
Here’s the video my staff and I discovered and subsequently released with the support of Kevin McCarthy:
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🧵 Last night I received a disclosure from a new FBI whistleblower regarding the J6 pipe bomb case.
This is the third disclosure I’ve received from current and former employees of the government regarding the pipe bomb case in recent weeks.
🧵 These brave moral people could lose their jobs and wreck their careers, but they care deeply for our country.
So at the risk of editorializing, I will summarize what I learned from this newest disclosure in order not to disclose the identity of this whistleblower.
🧵 The community where the suspect was arrested is populated with several employees of the FBI, Secret Service, and police. Many of them have observed the suspect on walks over the years.
.@SpeakerJohnson is making false claims about my discharge petition that seeks to force a House vote on full release of the Epstein files. Let's set the record straight with this thread...🧵
Claim: “The Massie and the Khanna discharge petition does not have adequate protections [for victims].”
Verdict: FALSE - Section 1(A) of Permitted Withholdings provides explicit protections for victims.
Claim: “In the way it was drafted, they cite they don’t want [CSAM] uncovered, but they cite the wrong provision of the federal code…”
Verdict: FALSE - the bill correctly identifies the primary, controlling federal statutes governing CSAM (18 USC § 2256, 18 USC § 2252-2252(A)).
$300 mil Syria & Iraq military
$118 mil overseas disasters
$15 mil AIDS in Africa
$500 mil Israel
$350 mil Kuwait
$1.27 bil foreign security
$500 mil Taiwan
$500 mil Jordan
$267 mil reimburse countries
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This isn’t 🇺🇸 first. I voted against this, because it won’t Make America Great Again; it will bankrupt us.
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Thank you @RepMTG and @RepTimBurchett for also voting against this misappropriation of military funds.
First graph shows the deficit impact of BBB passing vs a baseline of doing nothing. The BBB adds $500 billion to the deficit each year for the next three years and never lowers the deficit, compared to letting 2017 TCJA (tax cuts) expire.
Second graph: “But wait, we will get some additional tax revenue due to a booming economy that booms every year for ten years! Include that in the graph.”
Ok, this one just adds $400 billion to the deficit every year for the next three years. Two elections from now, it looks OK!
Third graph: “Wait, we should have known 2017 tax cuts would be made permanent in 2025, so don’t count their cost! Um, but do count tips, overtime, and seniors tax cuts toward deficit and say they expire in 3 years!”
This gimmickry still adds billions to deficit for next 3 yrs.
🧵Key Takeaways: The January 6 pipe bombs played a role in diverting resources and facilitating the breach of the Capitol.
🧵Our report details, “[d]espite the threat the pipe bombs posed to Congress and the public…federal law enforcement has refused to provide substantive updates to Congress about the status of the investigation.”