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Eugene

(67,330 posts)
Sat Mar 1, 2025, 07:53 AM Mar 2025

FBI Deputy Director Bongino repeatedly said pipe bombs planted ahead of Jan. 6 were 'inside job'

Source: CNN

FBI Deputy Director Bongino repeatedly said pipe bombs planted ahead of Jan. 6 were ‘inside job’

By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN
4 minute read
Published 4:00 AM EST, Sat March 1, 2025

(CNN) — Dan Bongino, the incoming deputy director of the FBI, suggested on his popular podcast in January that the agency he is now about to help lead was complicit in planting pipe bombs around Washington ahead of the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.

“I believe the FBI knows the identity of this pipe bomber on January 6th, four years ago, and just doesn’t wanna tell us ‘cause it was an inside job,” Bongino said on his podcast.

“Folks, this guy was an insider,” he added. “This was an inside job. And it is the biggest scandal in FBI history.”

A former Secret Service agent and NYPD cop, Bongino has become a successful conservative media personality in part by spreading conspiracy theories about the so-called deep state that alleges federal workers are plotting to undermine the president’s agenda.

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Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/01/politics/kfile-dan-bongino-january-6th-pipe-bomb-fbi/index.html

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FBI Deputy Director Bongino repeatedly said pipe bombs planted ahead of Jan. 6 were 'inside job' (Original Post) Eugene Mar 2025 OP
They just go around accusing people of crimes with no evidence no specifics and no good faith Walleye Mar 2025 #1
Nothing Bongino spews is worth consideration. He pulls FSogol Mar 2025 #2
Oh, it was an inside job, alright. tanyev Mar 2025 #3

Walleye

(45,512 posts)
1. They just go around accusing people of crimes with no evidence no specifics and no good faith
Sat Mar 1, 2025, 07:55 AM
Mar 2025

There should be lawsuits filed against these people. Defamation is getting thick.

FSogol

(47,665 posts)
2. Nothing Bongino spews is worth consideration. He pulls
Sat Mar 1, 2025, 07:56 AM
Mar 2025

everything out of his ass. If he said the sky was blue, I'd go double check.

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