An FBI supervisory special agent sent a protected letter to Congress alleging “gross misconduct and/or fraud” tied to the early Jan. 6 pipe-bomb investigation. The agent remains employed at the bureau, according to his attorney’s disclosure.
Rep. Thomas Massie reviewed the disclosure and recent reporting and raised the alarm.
Thomas Massie said, “has been engaged in a cover-up” or has been “grossly incompetent.”
Thomas Massie said, “Either way, these latest revelations about the pipe-bomb investigation require answers from the new FBI director.”
Attorney Kurt Siuzdak filed a 10-page protected disclosure with Reps. Massie and Barry Loudermilk, who chairs a House subcommittee probing unresolved Jan. 6 issues. The filing describes an early surveillance operation near Bailey’s Crossroads in Falls Church, Virginia.
Kurt Siuzdak wrote, “after FBI agents came within yards of the person who has been identified … the FBI surveillance team agents were ordered to cease their investigation, denied permission to conduct at least one logical interview, immediately removed from surveillance, and reassigned to do general leads work.”
Kurt Siuzdak wrote, “The ‘neighbor’ identified below lived within feet of [Person of Interest 3] and she appears to be the same individual as investigative reporter Steve Baker identified as a former U.S. Capital [sic] Police officer, who is currently associated with a U.S. intelligence agency.”
The neighbor was photographed by agents during surveillance, the disclosure states.
Kurt Siuzdak said, “The ‘neighbor’ had been photographed by the FBI surveillance team, and her photograph and attire are similar to the individual who [allegedly] placed the devices.”
Blaze News separately reported a forensic gait analysis that compared former Capitol Police Officer Shauni Rae Kerkhoff to the bombing suspect. The computer model rated the gait as a 94% match, and the analyst’s visual read put it closer to 98%. Kerkhoff has not been charged by any agency.
Agents assigned to Squad 21 were told not to conduct a “knock and talk” with Person of Interest 3. Field teams who proposed basic steps were pulled off the case, the letter says.
Kurt Siuzdak wrote, a doorstep interview “would have obviously led to the doorstep of the ‘neighbor,’” and the discontinuation “was described … as improper.”
Internal FBI records cited in the disclosure align with a House oversight report from earlier this year. Those records describe Person of Interest 2 taking photos behind the Capitol Hill Club the morning before the bombs were planted.
An FBI report quoted the man as saying he photographed “objects bearing numerals” for a book project.
The same report noted, “observed POI2 switching hats when we [sic] exits South Capitol Metro.”
Video and transit data tracked POI2 between the Capitol South and East Falls Church Metro stations over the course of the day. Records show POI2 used a prepaid SmarTrip card purchased by Person of Interest 3 and was dropped at the station by a vehicle registered to POI3.
The FBI interviewed POI2 in mid-January of 2021 and later cleared both POI2 and POI3. The House report said the bureau did not explain why the two were cleared, how they knew each other, or how POI2 obtained the prepaid card.
A Daily Wire account quoted the Falls Church man about the Metro card and a visiting friend.
The man told the outlet his Metro card “was used by a childhood friend who traveled from the south to attend Trump’s rally, and stayed with him to save money. The Air Force vet let him borrow his card and picked him up from the Metro station in Virginia after the rally, he said. Both men are Trump supporters, he said.”
The disclosure also recounts a Blaze News editor’s brief encounter near a later residence, where local police checked his ID and allowed him to leave. The FBI has not responded to press requests for comment, according to Blaze.
The whistleblower says surveillance stopped just as agents neared a crucial lead. The letter urges lawmakers to get answers from bureau leadership. The case remains officially unsolved.