The assassination of Charlie Kirk on September 10, 2025 put a spotlight on security failures surrounding major political events.
Now investigators looking into another unsolved case from that era just uncovered something that raises serious questions.
And the Republican chair of the GOP committee investigating January 6 just exposed the FBI's dirty secret about pipe bomb videos that has everyone demanding answers.
Critical Surveillance Footage Vanished Without Explanation
Barry Loudermilk chairs the House Republican-led Select Subcommittee investigating remaining questions about January 6, including the mysterious pipe bomber who placed explosives outside both the RNC and DNC headquarters on January 5, 2021.
Those bombs sat undetected for more than 16 hours before discovery the next afternoon.
The FBI spent nearly five years investigating before finally arresting 30-year-old Brian Cole Jr. at his Virginia home on December 4, 2025.¹
Cole reportedly told investigators he believed the 2020 election was stolen and admitted to planting the devices.²
But Loudermilk just revealed something that calls the entire investigation into question.
"There's still so many questions regarding this, because one of the things that has raised our eyebrows is as we go and we look for video on January 6th, because we want early morning video on January 6th to see, did anybody go back to these locations?" Loudermilk explained in a recent interview.
"Unfortunately, that video apparently doesn't exist anymore," he stated. "We do have the January 5th video, but we've been told that no one ever preserved January 6th."³
The bombs were placed January 5 but not discovered until around 1 p.m. on January 6.
That means there should be crucial footage showing whether anyone returned to check on the devices, whether witnesses passed by without noticing them, and what was happening in those areas during the critical hours before discovery.
All of that footage has vanished.
FBI Had 39,000 Video Frames But Lost The Most Important Ones
Loudermilk explained that Capitol Police cameras captured footage of the "walking paths" the alleged bomber took on January 5.
But the cameras covering the most critical areas behind both the RNC and DNC where the bombs were actually placed?
Those recordings from January 6 are gone.
"None of the camera angles, like behind the RNC, behind the DNC, that we know of that exists today of where this person would have been, had the closest angles," Loudermilk continued. "And so that has inhibited our investigation into this theory of maybe they were placed back out again."³
The FBI previously identified over 39,000 video frames of the suspect from January 5.⁴
But the footage from the exact locations where the bombs sat for 16 hours straight has disappeared.
That's not just inconvenient for investigators.
It's the most important evidence in the entire case.
Bomb-sniffing dogs somehow missed the devices during a security sweep before then-Vice President-elect Kamala Harris arrived at the DNC that morning.
Secret Service agents conducted a thorough sweep of the premises around 8:30 a.m., including using two canine units.⁵
The pipe bomb was sitting less than 20 feet from where Harris entered the building, yet nobody detected it.⁶
How does that happen?
The January 6 surveillance footage would show exactly what was going on at these locations during those critical hours.
But that footage "apparently doesn't exist anymore."
Loudermilk stopped short of claiming the videos were intentionally deleted.
He offered some theories about why the bombs might have been missed originally.
Maybe the dog handler got distracted at the exact wrong moment.
Maybe witnesses simply didn't notice the devices sitting there.
But none of that explains why the surveillance footage from January 6 was never preserved in the first place.
The FBI offered a $500,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.⁷
They claimed this was a top priority investigation.
Yet somehow the surveillance footage covering the most critical locations on the most important day mysteriously disappeared.
This isn't the first evidence that vanished in this case.
Previous testimony revealed that cell tower data from one provider near the bomb sites was "corrupted" during preservation attempts.⁸
That data could have identified whose phones were pinging near the RNC and DNC at the exact times the bombs were placed and discovered.
Also gone.
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Cole was arrested based on credit card purchases, cellphone location data, and the remaining surveillance footage.
The Trump Justice Department finally connected dots that had been sitting in FBI files since 2021 and 2022.⁹
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the arrest but said no new tips or witnesses emerged.
The evidence was there all along.
The FBI just never put it together under the Biden administration.
Now investigators are learning that key surveillance footage somehow never got preserved.
Loudermilk has subpoena power through his select subcommittee and plans to get answers about what happened to the missing videos.
The American people deserve to know why critical evidence in a major terrorism investigation vanished while the FBI spent five years chasing leads.
¹ "FBI arrests suspect in 2021 D.C. pipe bomb case, identified as Virginia man," CBS News, December 4, 2025.
² "Accused DC pipe bomber told FBI he believed the 2020 election was stolen, sources say," CNN, December 5, 2025.
³ "J6 Chair Makes Jaw-Dropping Claim: Pipe Bomb Videos Outside RNC and DNC Deleted—'Doesn't Exist'," RedState, December 12, 2025.
⁴ Ibid.
⁵ "Chairman Loudermilk Turns the Screws on Kamala Harris's Secret Service Detail Over J6 DNC Pipe Bomb," The Gateway Pundit, November 2025.
⁶ "Suspect arrested in Jan. 6 pipe bomb case: Sources," ABC News, December 4, 2025.
⁷ "Updated: Seeking Information on Capitol Hill Pipe Bomb Suspect," Federal Bureau of Investigation, October 22, 2025.
⁸ "Republicans Release New Information On January 6 Pipe Bomb Investigation," House Judiciary Committee Republicans, 2023.
⁹ "Jan. 6 pipe bomb suspect Brian Cole arrested, faces explosives charges, Trump DOJ says," CNBC, December 4, 2025.
