Here's the most 'distinctive mystery' that remains about the Capitol riots one year later: reporter

[turbinetree]

By Matthew Chapman
Published December 23, 2021

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On Thursday, in a new video posted to Twitter, NBC4 Washington's Scott MacFarlane — the main correspondent covering the January 6 Capitol insurrection trials — laid out the most "distinctive mystery" that still continues about the event.

"There are a lot of questions that still have to be answered from January 6th, a lot of big questions, but let's not lose sight of the distinctively big question that remains right here," said MacFarlane, standing in front of the Republican National Committee headquarters. "There was somebody on January 5th, 2021 who left destructive pipe bombs right here, and near Democratic Party headquarters. And as of tonight, the FBI has not announced an arrest, or publicly announced a suspect."

"In a vacuum — separate it from the rest of January 6th — what a profoundly important question that is," continued MacFarlane. "Who left pipe bombs on Capitol Hill? It's a question that has yet to be publicly answered. We know they've been flooded with tips, and they keep showing those surveillance images, those surveillance videos ... to yield and generate more tips. But no announced arrest just yet."

https://www.rawstory.com/capitol-riot-pipe-bomb/

[leftstreet]

1. DURec

The press ignored this story from the beginning, and continues to do so

[bucolic_frolic]

2. I doubt it was rogue

and I doubt it was a solo operation. Somebody put the messenger up to it.

[uponit7771]

7. +1

[SheltieLover]

15. +1

[Buckeye_Democrat]

4. Unless the person is a blabber-mouth about doing it...

... I'd be amazed that he's ever caught, from only the surveillance videos that I've seen.

[Lochloosa]

6. I agree.

[SheltieLover]

16. Military?

[SheltieLover]

31. I wonder

Paid mercenary?

I really don't know. But I do agree about security & that the person should have been arrested long ago!

I get the feeling it would be quite inconvenient to arrest this traitor...

[Buckeye_Democrat]

17. We don't have telescopes that can see gravel on the Moon.

We don't even have telescopes that can see the lunar landers, and even a giant stadium on the Moon would be barely a dot using the Hubble telescope.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/moon-hoax-why-not-use-telescopes-to-look-at-the-landers
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So let’s look at our lunar descent stage. It’s 4 meters across, but 400,000,000 meters away. That gives it an angular size of (4/400,000,000) x 206265 = 0.002 arcseconds.

Hey, wait a sec! Hubble’s resolution is only 0.1 arcseconds, so the lander is way too small to be seen as anything more than a dot, even by Hubble. It would have to be a lot bigger to be seen at all. In fact, if you do the math (set Hubble’s resolution to 0.1 arcseconds and the distance to 400,000 kilometers) you see that Hubble’s resolution on the Moon is about 200 meters! In other words, even a football stadium on the Moon would look like a dot to Hubble.
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As for everything else, the person might've never stayed at a hotel or anywhere else with decent surveillance cameras.

The surveillance video that I've seen isn't very clear at all, and the person was wearing a hoodie with a mask over his face. So I'd be surprised if anyone who's personally interacted with that guy could identify him that way. And that's how most of the Capital insurrectionists were caught... somebody recognized them.

Also, artificial intelligence sucks at identifying patterns that humans can detect easily. There's a reason why "captcha" tests are given online to prove you're a human. It's because AI stinks at even recognizing something simple like bicycles among a mess of other imagery.

And I don't consider that person's gait to be especially unusual, at least not enough that I'd remember it each time that I saw other people walking. Most people walk weird, to me, to be quite honest -- shuffling along to "look cool", or whatever the heck explains their very inefficient-looking walking styles.

Maybe if it was truly weird, like one guy from my high school who bobbed up and down like he was on a pogo stick (as he'd always land on his heels and then lift his feet off the ground from his tippy-toes for whatever reason), then maybe I'd call the FBI to report that guy from my high school of years ago. (At a high school of thousands of students, that kid's head bobbing up and down could be easily recognized among a crowd from hundreds of yards away.)

[msfiddlestix]

42. Enjoyed reading the story re guy in high school bobbed up and down

The images I saw were not clear to me either. the hoodie and mask was very effective and though the gait was a little unusual, not that distinctive to me either, other than my first instinct conveyed female.

But since traditional gender characteristics no longer apply and given the hoodie and mask, it's going to be fairly unlikely to positively identify this person, I think.

Which is unfortunate.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

43. Yes, I wasn't even sure about the person's gender.

That person might be a big-mouth about it eventually, but I'm not very confident about capturing that individual otherwise.

I suspect that kid from my high school had some kind of physical disability, so I always had sympathy for him, but his walking style was the most unique that I've ever seen. I was tempted to ask him about it a few times, to better understand it, but I never did. I had a couple classes with him during my time in high school, and he certainly never came across as mentally challenged at all.

[AmBlue]

32. I saw a comparison of the gait and shoes

... to Marjorie Traitor Green. Eerily similar. If I can find it I'll post it.

***EDITED TO ADD*** Lots of speculation here: https://www.ibtimes.sg/marjorie-taylor-greene-pipe-bomber-u-s-reps-prior-knowledge-explosive-devices-planted-dc-59202

Lke how did she know about pipe bombs before they were found?

[Joinfortmill]

33. Interesting

[spanone]

5. K&R

[bucolic_frolic]

8. Run with the physical description

What do you see? I'd say about 5'4" to 5'7". Very slightly bow-legged. Medium build and not curvy. Prob female.

Anyone see something different? Surely ...

[Irish_Dem]

9. Who and why?

What purpose did it serve on the night before 1/6.

I don't think the timing is coincidence.
And I don't think it was rogue.

[gab13by13]

22. If the bombs had gone off

and if there was a counter-protest, it gave Trump more reason to declare martial law.

[tanyev]

45. I remember reading an article maybe a couple months ago

and I’m sorry I can’t find it now, but one of the men they profiled was LEO who was outside the Capitol and watching, but waiting for reinforcements to arrive. So maybe DC police or FBI. And one of the scenarios they had discussed prior to Jan. 6 was the possibility of a bomb that would create a distraction and pull a lot of responding law enforcement away to deal with the bomb, leaving a clear path for the mob at the Capitol.

And while he’s out there watching the situation at the Capitol deteriorate, a call does indeed come over the radio about a bomb. And most of his colleagues do take off to respond to that, leaving him one of a very few left at the Capitol wondering WTH is going on.

I think finding out who planted the bomb and who came up with that plan would be the final piece of the puzzle.

[Irish_Dem]

46. The distraction theory has merit.

That makes sense. Keep the police occupied elsewhere while the mob gains access to the Capitol. Once the mob is in the building it is going to be harder for the police to gain control.

Which is in fact exactly what happened.

I wonder if it was someone with knowledge of law enforcement? Who might know exactly how many police would be on duty, how many would leave to respond to the bomb call. Though I suppose non LE could figure this out.

Yes I would like this piece of the puzzle to fall into place.

[reACTIONary]

13. K&R

[Aviation Pro]

14. Where was Ivanka at that time?

Just asking the question.

[Hekate]

30. Ivanka's tall, like her daddy. Trump likes tall women, so both Melania and Ivanka's mom are tall.

No harm in asking the question, but there are a lot of reasons First Daughter gets eliminated, and that’s only one.

[FakeNoose]

18. One of the Proud Boys probably knows

Somebody will spill the beans to get a shorter sentence.

[wnylib]

34. A Proud boy or other militia thug

might have been told that it was there, but not know who placed it there. Not likely to reveal who told him.

[SayItLoud]

21. Who were the potential targets?

Was one location the primary target and the other intended to be something other?

Knowing who the targets were, where they were at the time of the planting of the pipes and at the time set for detonation is important.

And it would seem that the media could get a lot of the answers to those questions.

[gab13by13]

24. It was meant to create chaos,

and give an excuse to declare martial law.

[Captain Zero]

36. Exactly. Declare martial law or at least close down

All of DC so that the electoral vote counts couldn't be certified.

If the bombs had gone off and if the insurrectionists tasked with seizing the actual electoral votes had accomplished that, it would have been mass confusion.

[former9thward]

38. Oh please.

A couple of pipe bombs? Martial law? They were not even at government offices.

[kentuck]

27. Trump blamed it on the FBI...

It is a mystery.

[flamingdem]

28. Timothy McVeight might never have been caught

if he didn't have a broken tail light. Just saying..

[fwvinson]

35. Could be the bombs have a connection to the Jan 6 capitol riot.

Maybe that was part of the plan by our lovely Republican "leaders".

[Manifestor_of_Light]

39. Dr. G. Jack Brown has an interesting theory.

He is a body language expert and has analyzed the person in the videos and he thinks it's Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Link to tweet

Dr. Jack Brown
@DrGJackBrown
1/ THREAD: Body Language Analysis No. 4622: FBI and Washington Post Videos of Washington DC Pipe Bombing Suspect — 5 January 2021

#BodyLanguage #BodyLanguageExpert #EmotionalIntelligence #PipeBomb #DCPipeBomber

Second thread:

Link to tweet

Dr. Jack Brown
@DrGJackBrown
1/ THREAD: Body Language Analysis No. 4628: Marjorie Taylor Greene's response to Jim Banks testimony regarding past bombing and domestic terrorism.
https://c-span.org/video/?c4992003/user-clip-jim-banks-exposes-democrats-position-domestic-terrorism

#BodyLanguageExpert #BodyLanguage #EmotionalIntelligence #MarjorieTaylorGreene #January6thCommission
4:42 AM · Dec 17, 2021·Twitter Web App

[Grasswire2]

44. I believe the FBI knows who the bomber is.

If the bomber was a NOBODY, we would know the identity by now.

If the bomber is a member of Congress, disclosure becomes more complicated.

It has been almost a year. If the FBI can't ID a bomber in a year, something's amiss.

They know.

[Blue Owl]

47. Dump drops multiple daily bowel bombs down the pipes every day

Lock him up!

[trusty elf]

48. ...

[Blue Owl]

49. BwHahaha, thanks for the holiday laugh!