Steven D’Antuono, the former director of the FBI’s Washington Field Office who has made the news recently around his Congressional testimony opposing the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, also testified regarding questions surrounding the FBI’s investigation of the January 6, 2021 pipe bombs.
Revolver News reports, via a letter published by Jim Jordan, about D’Antuono’s responses to questions, partially developed by Revolver’s Darren Beattie working with Rep. Thomas Massie. (https://www.revolver.news/2023/06/steven-d-antuono-former-head-of-fbi-jan-6-pipe-bomb-investigation-comes-clean-with-stunning-admission/ )
Considering the FBI’s widespread use of “geofencing"—the tracking of phones based on GPS information, WiFi connections, Bluetooth and other technologies—Massie asked D’Antuono whether the FBI had used this technique to identify the alleged pipe bomber, who was captured on video released to the public by the FBI.
D’Antuono first responded that although the bomber appeared to use a phone in the grainy footage, it might not have actually been a phone, or may not have been turned on. D’Antuono then answered the question: “We did a complete geofence. We have complete data. Not complete, because there’s some data that was corrupted by one of the providers ... unusual circumstance that we have corrupt data from one of the providers ... which is awful because we don’t have the information to search.” Well that’s convenient!
When asked whether the pipe bombs were actually viable bombs, D’Antuono responded that “the timer on the pipe bomb could not have detonated the pipe bomb on January 6th, given the time already elapsed between placement and discovery.”
