Reports tell us that on the eve of January 6, 2021, someone planted pipe bombs in the vicinity of both the DNC and the RNC in Washington, D.C.
The FBI said in early 2025 that it had uncovered new footage of the perp:
We're now learning more about this mysterious bombing.
The first pipe bomb was discovered by an employee of AT&T, who had just signed a contract with the FBI. A few days later, the FBI requested data from AT&T.
From Just The News:
On Jan. 11, 2021, the FBI sent a preservation request to the AT&T Public Sector team to retain precise location data 'which provides the distance between mobile devices and the cell tower it is interacting with' for Jan. 5 and 6. The data would be vital for the bureau's search for suspects in the vicinity of the RNC and DNC that day, when the bureau said the bombs were planted.
And then this happened:
Pipe bombs near both the DNC and RNC are no joke. However, AT&T wasn't able to deliver pertinent information in the case. They claimed to have lost it.
More from Just The News:
Earlier this year, the company told the FBI that the data was deleted from its systems due to a 'seven-day retention' policy. 'Knowing that this data would likely be purged at midnight Eastern Time, the Public Sector employee attempted to preserve more precise location data, which was available to them,' the company's senior legal counsel wrote in a message to the FBI in March.
'At that time, our Public Sector employee understood that the TA data was subject to a seven-day retention period, and accordingly the January 5th data was in jeopardy of being purged in a matter of hours,' the counsel explained.
The employee tried to retrieve the data.
However,
[T]he server the employee used was overloaded due to the large quantity of data, the company told the bureau.
What's more, according to Select Subcommittee on January 6th Chairman Barry Loudermilk,
When asked by the FBI to turn over cell data relating to the pipe bombs case, all major cell provider companies were able to fulfill that request except one - AT&T First Net. According to First Net, that data was inadvertently corrupted and deleted from their server when trying to download.
Here's another interesting twist:
This has raised many, many questions.
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