FBI Deputy Director Dan Bonino announced Monday that the Federal Bureau of Investigations will “either re-open or push additional resources and investigative attention” to three high profile mysteries – the January 6 pipe bombs, the cocaine found at the White House, and who leaked the draft of the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
As reported on Tuesday’s AM Update, Bongino made the announcement in a lengthy X post that also explained the delay he and FBI Director Kash Patel have faced in hiring “reform teams” at the agency and why they have limited their media availability.
D.C. Pipe Bombs
Bongino wrote the FBI is searching for answers regarding the two functioning pipe bombs placed outside of the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee headquarters the night before the riot at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
According to the FBI, an unidentified person wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, mask, gloves, glasses, and Nike Air Max Speed Turf sneakers was seen on security camera footage between 7:30pm and 8:30pm on January 5, 2021, planting the bombs.
The explosive at RNC headquarters was found the next day by a young woman who was doing laundry and spotted it near a dumpster around 12:40pm. The DNC bomb was discovered by Capitol Police shortly thereafter in a security sweep triggered by the first discovery.
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris was in the DNC building at the time, and an inspector general report from the Department of Homeland Security said her motorcade passed within 20 feet of the bomb as it arrived.
Over the last four years, the FBI has reportedly reviewed more than 39,000 videos and followed more than 500 tips but has yet to identify a suspect or even definitively say whether it was a man or a woman in the tape. The newest detail released in January 2025 was that the suspect is approximately 5 feet 7 inches tall.
Cocaine at the White House
Bongino also revealed the FBI will once again look into the July 2023 incident at the White House in which cocaine was discovered during a routine security sweep. The small baggie – which lab tests later confirmed contained less than a gram of cocaine – was found by a Secret Service agent on July 2 in a cubby just steps away from the Situation Room.
At the time, President Joe Biden and his family were in Camp David for the Fourth of July holiday, but they had been at the White House two days prior. Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that the matter was under investigation and noted the location was a heavily trafficked area of the White House used by both West Wing staff and visitors.
While Jean-Pierre said she was “confident that the Secret Service would get to the bottom of this,” they closed the investigation just 11 days later citing a lack of physical evidence and claiming no fingerprints or identifiable DNA were recovered from the bag.
SCOTUS Leak
Finally, Bongino said there would be further scrutiny of the May 2022 leak of the draft U.S. Supreme Court opinion in the highly anticipated Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case.
The high court called the shocking and illicit disclosure “an extraordinary betrayal of trust,” as the leak revealed there were enough votes to overturn Roe v. Wade. That suspicion was confirmed weeks later with the official release of the final opinion.
The leak of the draft was not only highly unethical but dangerous to the justices whose decision to overturn such a hot-button precedent was highly controversial. On June 8, 2022, weeks before the final ruling was issued, a California man was arrested with a handgun and charged with attempted murder after he confessed he planned to kill Justice Brett Kavanaugh in part because of the expected ruling. Kavanaugh had indeed joined with the majority, which also included Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett.
What followed was an eight-month probe into who leaked that draft opinion conducted by Supreme Court Marshal Gail Curley. The marshal’s day-to-day responsibilities involve providing security for the justices and the court buildings, but Chief Justice John Roberts placed Curley in charge. Some criticized the decision saying the FBI would have been more effective, however, they deferred to Roberts’ choice.
Curley conducted interviews with 97 employees and a forensic review of digital records, but she failed to identify the source of the leak. Critics called the investigation incomplete, noting the justices themselves were not required to submit sworn statements.
On X, Bongino said he “receive[s] requested briefings on these cases weekly” and “we are making progress.”
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