Kamala Stumbled Into J6 Pipe Bomb Plot

But Did Liz Cheney Know?

In an impressively well reported piece on December 22, Julie Kelly and Haley McLean reveal that on at least three separate occasions future January 6 Select Committee vice-chair, Liz Cheney, predicted a bomb plot scenario for January 6, 2021.

As early as December 12, 2020, according to the Washington Post, Cheney "imagined a bomb threat halting the count to certify the election.” Cheney made comparable observations in late December and early January. On January 6, Cheney’s predictions came true. Write Kelly and McLean, “The ensuing chaos ended Republicans’ plans that day to expose voting fraud related to the 2020 presidential election—precisely the outcome Cheney had wanted.”

The witching hour for the day’s planned chaos appears to have been 1 p.m. the time at which the certification progress began at the Capitol. Provocateur Ray Epps and his crew breached the Capitol perimeter just before 1 p.m. A still unidentified man put the noose on a pre-constructed gallows at 1 p.m. The still unidentified “scaffold commander” mounted the media scaffolding and began barking orders to the protestors shortly after 1 p.m. And, most relevant for Kamala Harris, pipe bombs planted by an unidentified bomber were found near the DNC shortly before and shortly after 1 p.m. respectively.

There has been an obviousness to the larger plot most evident in the failure of the FBI to identify key January 6 provocateurs and in their kid gloves handling of Ray Epps. Not only did Epps encourage the initial breach and a secondary breach, but he also provided hands-on help to those pushing a large metal Trump sign into a line of police officers. At 2:12, Epps texted his nephew boasting that he had “orchestrated” events at the Capitol. He wasn’t kidding.

Perversely, the more evidence that surfaced against Epps, the more the media embraced him. Not until September 23, 2023, did Epps plead guilty to a single misdemeanor charge with no jail time and only then because his preferential treatment embarrassed the keepers of the narrative. As to the scaffold commander, the faux hangman, and a few other window breakers, they somehow baffled the facial recognition tools of the FBI.

Even more damning is the pipe bomb story. Harris and her Secret Service detail had arrived at the DNC building an hour and 40 minutes before the bomb was discovered. The vehicle carrying Harris passed within 20 feet of the bomb which authorities continue to insist was planted the night before and remained viable.

At 12:51 p.m. a video surfaced by Rep. Thomas Massie shows a Metropolitan D.C. officer leave his vehicle in front of the DNC with bag in hand, walk towards the area where the bomb was found, and return with the bag moments later. For some inexplicable reason, the security camera never shows the bench where the bomb was found, nor, unfortunately, the officer’s action at that bench. The bomb would be “found” 15 minutes later by a Capitol Police officer.

Adding to the mystery around the pipe bomb is the convenient deletion of January 6 text messages from at least two dozen Secret Service officials and agents, including former director Kim Cheatle. Cheatle, as Kelly and McLean point out, served on the Cheney family detail for roughly six years

For all the circumstantial evidence, any indictment of Harris calls for a theory of the case. Here’s mine. I do not believe Harris was an original participant in the plot. I believe she stumbled into it. The Secret Service did a bomb sweep of the DNC with trained dogs hours after the bomb was allegedly planted. I do not believe the plotters expected them to be there. Their presence complicated the story that authorities were telling about bombs set the night before.

If Harris was unaware of plot, her subsequent silence has made her complicit. By January 17, 2021, as politically useful as it would have been for her to recount her near assassination by way of a terrorist bomb, she had learned to keep her mouth shut. That morning she appeared on CBS Good Morning with Jane Pauley.

After showing a series of riot images, Pauley asked Harris, “January 6 was something seismic. Something seismic happened that day. May I ask, was the TV on? Did someone say, 'Madam Vice President-Elect, you gotta see this, come.’ How did that unfold?"

Responded Harris cautiously, "I was at the Capitol that morning, and then I was in a meeting, and I was told that I should leave. And then I was taken to a secure location, with my husband.” Yes, Harris was at the Capitol that morning. Yes, she was in a meeting. Yes, she was taken to a secure location.

Together, however, these carefully crafted half-truths amount to a lie. Here, Harris left the impression that she had to leave the Capitol because of the riot. In fact, she was at the DNC and had to leave that location at about 1:15 p.m. because of the pipe bomb found outside the building ten minutes earlier. The Capitol would not be evacuated for another hour.

This deception had consequences. For nearly a year after January 6 prosecutors were telling J6 judges and juries that Harris “remained within the Capitol building” throughout the riot. As a Secret Service protectee, any site Harris visited was considered “restricted.” The scores of defendants who violated this restricted space had their charges amplified.

The question remains: why did Harris deceive not only the public but also the courts about her presence at the DNC? Her silence recalls for me the Arthur Conan Doyle story, “The Adventure of Silver Blaze.” In the story, the master sleuth Sherlock Holmes deduces that the failure of a watchdog to bark while a horse was being stolen meant only one thing: the dog recognized the man who stole the horse.

On January 6, vice president-elect Kamala Harris was the dog that didn’t bark. Despite her flirtation with death and her own penchant for self-dramatization, she has still not barked. Neither has Joe Biden. As with the watchdog in the Sherlock Holmes story, their silence suggests a familiarity with the bomber. If they do not know his exact identity, they both strongly suspect he is a friend of the family.

For the complete story: