By Mike Huckabee
February 7, 2025
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Yes, there’s more about the Trump administration “sending the Deep State to the outhouse,” as Miranda Devine at the NEW YORK POST colorfully puts it, but first, Rep. Barry Loudermilk’s subcommittee has turned up something new about the FBI’s “investigation” of the so-called pipe bomber from the night of January 5, 2021. Congress, not the FBI, is going to be the one to figure out what was really going on with that; in fact, it appears they’ll solve the case despite the FBI’s hinderances.
Rep. Loudermilk tells JUST THE NEWS that the subcommittee has heard back from all three major cellular carriers that the phone usage data they turned over to the FBI from that area --- the vicinity of the DNC and RNC headquarters --- on that night was “intact.” This directly contradicts what the head of the FBI’s investigation said about the data from one carrier being “corrupted” and not usable to identify the pipe bomb suspect.
Former Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office Steve D’Antuono told the subcommittee in June 2023 in a transcribed interview with the House Judiciary Committee --- the story doesn’t mention whether or not this was under oath --- that the FBI received corrupted data from one of the cell carriers and that it most likely had contained the identity of the pipe bomber. (Darn it!)
D’Antuono said in the interview that they’d done “a complete geofence” --- well, “not complete, because there’s some data that was corrupted by one of the providers, not purposely by them, right. It just --- unusual circumstance that we have corrupted data from one of the providers.”
“And for that day, which is awful because we don’t have that information to search. So could it have been that provider? Yeah, with our luck, you know, with this investigation, it probably was, right?”
Yeah, right, that investigation was just PLAGUED with bad luck! Darn it all! But Loudermilk didn’t let it go at that, and his subcommittee contacted the three major cell carriers directly, “asking them to respond to Mr. D’Antuono’s claim of corrupted data,” he said.
And what do you know? According to Loudermilk, “Every major cell carrier responded and confirmed that they did not provide the FBI corrupted data.”
Not only that, but no cell carrier had ever been notified by the FBI of any problem accessing the data.
Loudermilk’s conclusion: “This contradictory testimony raises some serious questions about the status of the investigation into the pipe bomber and why the case remains unsolved nearly four years later.”
Gee, if all the companies turned over their cellphone data, and it wasn’t corrupted, and they never heard back that it was corrupted, when exactly did it get corrupted? Or did it just...disappear? You’d almost think the FBI didn’t want the evidence that would help them pinpoint and identify that person.
D’Antuono retired from the FBI in late 2022. (This seems to have been a popular time to retire; as we reported yesterday, Tim Thibault, who had pushed for prosecuting Trump, abruptly resigned in 2022 after coming under congressional scrutiny for suspected political bias over the laptop investigation.) D’Antuono’s attorney had not responded to an email query from JUST THE NEWS before they posted their story.
In the fall, Rep. Loudermilk sent a letter to then-FBI Director Christopher Wray demanding to know if D’Antuono’s testimony about the cellphone data had been accurate and if the bureau had ever gone back to that particular cellphone carrier to inform them of the problem and see about getting “a fresh set” of uncorrupted data. In this letter, Loudermilk presented him with six clear, pointed questions that apparently, he never bothered to answer...
Now, here’s that piece by Miranda Devine about the house-cleaning going on at the DOJ and FBI. The left is reacting as if this were “retribution,” but, as Byron York says, “it seems kind of a prudent situation for them to be leaving, given what has gone on.” There’s some beautiful understatement...
RELATED: In more news about Deep State “workarounds,” James O’Keefe of O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) has a new expose, not from one of the intel agencies but from the Department of Homeland Security, where some are vowing to “resist” Trump’s orders. Get a load of Brandon Wright, “civil servant.”
An undercover journalist went on a hidden-camera “date” with Wright, a platform services manager for DHS (A GS-14, nicely paid), and recorded him saying that the agency’s career people don’t allow political appointees such as newly appointed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to influence what they do. “I (bleep)-ing hate her,” he said of Noem, in one of a stream of disrespectful and condescending remarks about her.
“The truth is, we don’t let [the Secretaries] get in our way,” he told his date.
“The Secretaries can set the priorities for the department,” he said, “but they can’t actually tell us what to do.” (Oh, really??) He compared the bureaucracy’s structure to the filtration layers in a septic tank, filtering their marching orders.
Have to say, comparing the government bureaucracy to a septic tank is actually one of the most appropriate observations we’ve heard lately.
If we don’t agree with the “priorities,” Wright told his date, “There’s a lot of room for interpretation.” He rationalized this as making the orders more practical and less disruptive.
“The people who are in charge are the permanent civil servants,” he said. “The truth is, we don’t let them get in our way.” Yep, that’s a direct quote.
This “resister” had something in common with the last one captured on O’Keefe’s undercover video: he assumed that if Kamala had won, it would’ve meant “stepping on the gas to get promoted.”
But now, “Trump is picking people that hate us,” Wright said, in a remark that sounds a lot like projection. He said Trump “wants conflict.” No, as he made clear about the California wildfires, he wants the deadwood removed.
After O’Keefe enlightened the DHS about this employee, presumably showing them the video, they provided this in a statement: “Secretary Noem has not seen the video in its entirety. This type of behavior will not be tolerated. This person has been placed on leave and is under investigation...The senior official says the termination of the official is imminent.” It had better be.
Certainly, this employee didn’t have to be a Trump supporter to continue in the job he had, but he did have to respect his superiors and perform the job he was there to do, not “resist” it or even filter it through layer after layer until he found something he was cool with doing. As a “permanent civil servant,” Mr. Wright is Mr. Wrong, and good riddance to him. Of course, judging from his own words, there is much more purging to be done.
Be sure and see the full OMG video…
RELATED: Here’s the story of yet another “workaround,” this time by people trying to resist one of President Trump’s J6 pardons.
On Trump’s first day in office, after his announcement that he’d be pardoning more than 1,500 January 6 defendants, Oath Keeper Jeremy Brown was relieved and elated, getting ready to leave the “DC Gulag” and meet his mother and girlfriend waiting outside.
But then he was advised by prison staff that he would not be released after all, due to a Florida conviction on six criminal charges (for weapons found during a J6-related FBI search of his home, an RV and a trailer parked on his property in Tampa) that prosecutors are now maintaining is separate from the January 6 charges even though they came as a result of a search warrant stemming from J6. (This is what’s known as “the fruit of the poisonous tree.”)
Instead of being released, Brown was transported by U.S. Marshals from DC to a detention center in Leitchfield, Kentucky, where he was reportedly kept in extremely rough conditions for 15 days, and from there to a low-security federal prison in Atlanta. (The many stories like this make us wonder how much of this endless moving-around is just pointless make-work for prison staff.)
Brown’s attorney, Carolyn Stewart, notes court filings from prosecutors that relate the weapons charges directly to January 6, so he should be released from prison on the presidential pardon. If the U.S. attorney in Tampa won’t “do the right thing,” she says, she’s calling on the acting U.S. attorney general to order Brown’s release from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.
As reported by BLAZE MEDIA, “Brown’s supporters see the government’s refusal to release Brown as ongoing persecution because he refused to spy on the Oath Keepers as an informant and blew the whistle on efforts by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force to recruit him during a December 11, 2020, meeting in Ybor City, Florida.”
This is a detailed story; go to THE BLAZE for all of it.
RELATED READING: In response to the Trump DOJ’s look at prosecutors who worked on J6 cases (we reported on this yesterday), a senior official at the FBI is saying it’s time to “dig in.” Inevitably, some agents are seeing themselves as victimized, whether they have been or not. “Today, we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own,” says James Dennehy, assistant director at the New York field office, “as good people are being walked out of the FBI and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and FBI policy.”
Sorry if some of them are getting caught in a “crossfire hurricane,” and we hope the good rank-and-file people do remain. But many at the FBI don’t seem to have operated within the law or the policy.
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