FBI finally releases surveillance footage of suspect planting pipe bomb outside DNC in 2021

The FBI has finally released the video of a suspect planting a pipe bomb at the DNC in 2021. The public release of the footage comes nearly four years after the incident and the perpetrator has yet to be identified.

As authorities have sought to get more attention on the case, where the person involved placed not one, but two bombs—one at the DNC and another at the RNC—the FBI revealed that the suspect's height is 5-foot-7 in the DNC video from January 5, 2021, according to the Daily Mail. Despite all the time that has been spent on the investigation, not even the suspect's gender is known.

"Without being able to confirm the suspect's identity, it is very hard to definitively establish motive," said David Sundberg, the assistant director over the Washington field office. "Therefore, it would be difficult for us to state that there is a link, although we can’t state there is not one." 

There has been a renewed push to find the pipe bomber after it was revealed that multiple security failures happened surrounding the incident.

A new report from the House Administration Committee scrutinized the security failures that occurred surrounding J6, which concluded that there were "serious, and largely overlooked, security failure[s]" that day in 2021 around the Capitol complex.

"Throughout the afternoon on January 6, federal law enforcement struggled to secure and maintain a perimeter around both pipe bombs, resulting in pedestrian and vehicular traffic passing by the explosive devices. On multiple occasions, federal law enforcement repeatedly identified breaches of the perimeters around the pipe bombs yet failed to maintain a secure perimeter—revealing a complete breakdown in command and control," the report stated.

United States Secret Service failed to find the explosive during a security sweep of the DNC on the morning of January 6. Other security failures include allowing pedestrians and traffic get "within feet" of the explosive devices, allowing the House Speaker's motorcade to "to drive through an acting bomb scene," as well as allowing commuter trains to go by the DNC bomb where civilians were "within close proximity to one of the viable devices."

Bombs were placed outside the DNC as well as the RNC, however, numerous agents were seen on video passing by the explosives and failed to identify them. The report adds, "Over the course of the morning, numerous [U.S. Secret Service] agents passed by the pipe bomb yet failed to identify it." One pipe bomb was 20 feet from the DNC building's garage.