The Mysterious Case of the January 6 Pipebomber

Way back in July of 2024, near two and a half years AFTER the January 5, 2021 planting of pipe bombs in Washington D.C., I noted the FBI had offered a half MILLION dollars for REWARD for cracking the case. So...I took a shot at it. GOLIATH Article 1

In the article I pointed out several peculiarities some already known and some that I discovered independently. For example: - The pipebombs were "armed" with 60 minute kitchen timers. - PB (the pipebomber) had donned an effective non-descript disguise - There had been no apparent attempt to "hide" or disguise the bombs as they were all place in plain sight by the DNC and RNC hqs. However, I made a couple of discoveries that were NOT so widely know. They involved a chap name Lonne Coffman. -Quite near the RNC pipebomb, he had parked his truck which held 11 "Molotov Cocktails" along with a cache of small arms. -Lonnie, along with many others had parked their vehicles in angled parking spots along the street in a row...all facing the wrong way. It appeared to be a concerted effort. -Lonnie had been brought to the scene by a woman in a blue sedan where he was pretty swiftly arrested. -Lonnie KNEW of the Pipebombs...and asked on duty cops if they had found "the bombs" I had suggested that the FBI should run the plates on all the other cars and identify and question the owners as well as 'the woman in the blue sedan'. (Lonnie had walked to the demonstration...not ridden) and who these folks were. Lonnie had documented ties to self-styled "Citizen Militias" and it looked like some kind of milita operation to me. Alas! The FBI (so far as I know) never took my advice and even with all these good leads, did not advance as a story/case for another year and a half. Then on November 8, the internet journal "The Blaze" published a since retracted story naming a woman as the pipebomber based on "gait" analysis. The woman was quite a story because she had worked FOR THE CAPITOL police at the time of the J6 uprising.

         NOW we were told, she had transferred and was working for the Central Intelligence Agency! Ok everybody strap on your CONSPIRACY THEORY hats!!! The story went VIRAL and began churning up speculations and theorizing all over the internet. I think I even saw video of this officer and it was compared to the videos the FBI had generously provided on its $500 thousand dollar reward website. Suffice it to say...this was a VERY bad look for the CIA, the Capitol Police, the Woman and of course the FBI!! Some pissant website had solved the crime when the FBI had not been able to after 4 years and 10 months. But, next something happened that took everyone in the public by surprise and blew the CIA employee story OFF the front page. On December 8, less than a month after the CIA story broke, the FBI announced it HAD CAPTURED the J6 Bomber!!! It was poor old Brian Cole, Jr. an autistic 31 year old black fellow who lived in the region. Yep...the good old FBI finally solved the case (without Goliath's help) after only 4 years and 11 months!!! YAY! 

 WHO IS BRIAN COLE?????????

So it turns out the FBI under Kash Patel says that Brian Cole a 31 year old black autistic is PB. But some folks "aint buyin' it". For example, Tucker Carlson has openly stated he believes Cole is being framed and that FBI agents took advantage of his autism to elicit a confession. See Carlson even asked the parents to watch video of PB from the famed surveillance tapes distributed by the FBI and asked them if they recognized it as their son's "gait". They said no.

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 So, what's going on here? I looked carefully at a video tape that was released by Scripps Howard of a traffic stop of Brian Cole. I noticed that in the video he is given a sheet of paper to write on (the ticket? dunno) and what it shows is Cole holding the pen to write with in his RIGHT hand...suggesting he is right handed. I went back and looked at the videos of the actual PB and look particularly for anything suggesting whether PB was right or left handed. I noticed that PB adjusts eyeglasses in several scenes and used their left hand. As an eyeglass wearer myself, I can say without hesitation I usually use my right (dominant) hand for such manipulations. Suggesting to me that PB is LEFT handed. I even went to AI to see if AI agreed with my 'analysis' (whoo hoo look at fancy me using AI and stuff!) My AI said "In the FBI videos (particularly the segments near the DNC bench and along the route), the suspect is seen adjusting, putting on, or handling their glasses/eyeglasses on multiple occasions. Some frame-by-frame or close analyses note the left hand appearing more involved in those adjustments (or in related motions like cleaning/wiping the lenses or holding them). Combined with other bag-handling or object interactions that some viewers interpret as left-dominant, this has led a number of people to conclude the person is likely left-handed." Of course, it must be acknowledged that this is HARDLY definitive. And surely not enough to DISPROVE that Cole is PB. After all, a culprit clever enough to have selected that perfect disguise and evaded detection by the FBI for 4 years might be smart enough to use the 'wrong' hand for the exact reason that it would show up on surveillance tape. 

     But there is something else? IS PB A WOMAN??? When I originally watched and now when I watch, the videos of PB traipsing around the DNC and RNC neighborhood, there are some passages of the video that just 'look' like this is an adult female in disguise. In one particular passage, PB struts along and it looks like they are on 'tippy toe'. More convincing to me is a prolonged shot of PB sitting down fooling with their bag. Then, PB uses the left hand to reach over to apparently pull something up her left upper arm under her clothing. It's the exact gesture one sees women use to put a fallen bra strap back up over the shoulder. (at the beginning of video) Another angle shows PB adjusting the straps on both arms (VIDEO) GOLIATH HAS QUESTIONS?? The first question we have is how is it that just a couple weeks after the BLAZE comes out naming a suspect as a now CIA agent, the FBI announces after about 4 years investigation...they finally "got their man" who is DEFINITELY NOT a CIA agent? How convieeeenent. I read the speaking indictment of Brian Cole and it does a very good job of laying out it's evidence against Cole. Topic one: His car was forensicly caught in the neighborhood on a traffic camera. Topic two: His phone was 'pinged' off phone towers in the area. Topic three: The FBI checked his money records and tied him to a lengthy catalogue of purchases of items that can be used as components of a pipe bomb. But something is missing. 

      Goliath has read, literally, thousands of police reports and charging affidavits. Law enforcement in such documents invariably begins with the story of HOW and WHY the officer's attention first came to land on the defendant. But Brian Cole's charges completely OMIT how and why he, Brian Cole, happened to come to the attention of the FBI to begin with. That is certainly relevant to me. What is NOT in the charges is as important as what is IN the charges. How did the FBI get interested in Cole??? We don't know. The woman the Blaze accused was Shauna Kerkhoff. She has sued the Blaze and the reporters who wrote the story for defamation. Politico reports as follows: "“Blaze News initially reported, as confirmed by official intelligence sources, that based on a forensic gait analysis Ms. Kerkhoff was a 94% match to the suspected pipe bomber,” lawyer Michael Grygiel said in a statement. “That report was retracted when the FBI arrested and DOJ charged another individual, who had reportedly confessed to the crime.” “According to recent court filings by that individual’s legal counsel, Ms. Kerkhoff was a person of interest under surveillance by the FBI and failed a polygraph test administered two days before Blaze Media’s article was published,” Grygiel added." She said she was home with her boyfriend and had a perfect alibi. Alan Feurer for the NY Times reported on defensive pleadings filed by Brian Cole's lawyers, "In their papers, the lawyers revealed new details about the F.B.I.’s short-lived investigation of Ms. Kerkhoff, which began around the time that Mr. Baker’s article was published. The papers said investigators interviewed not only Ms. Kerkhoff, but also her boyfriend and her dog walker. They claimed that the F.B.I. sent surveillance footage of Ms. Kerkhoff walking to a podiatrist — “likely for a gait analysis” — and reviewed the video footage of her with her dog purportedly taken the night before the Capitol attack. Moreover, the lawyers said that Ms. Kerkhoff failed a polygraph examination 

 (polygraph machine)

in which she was asked if she had placed the pipe bombs. The polygraph examiner, the papers said, took note of Ms. Kerkhoff’s “very controlled reaction to the news of her failing the polygraph and seemingly rehearsed responses to examiner’s questions.” The F.B.I. formally closed its inquiry into Ms. Kerkhoff on Jan. 6, the papers said, about a month after Mr. Cole had been charged. Her lawyer, Steve Bunnell, declined to comment." 

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 Remember how one of the first "facts" the FBI raises against Cole, 'that his car license plate was spotted on a traffic camera on Jan 5"? This kinda bugged me because I recalled reading that, in fact, the FBI was after a suspect who had left the scene by mass transit. Then I found this as reported by NBC news...the FBI confirming their suspect was using mass transit. "In a letter to a Republican congressman who leads a new committee investigating Jan. 6, the FBI explained that it had been tracking a separate person of interest who took photos near the RNC on Jan. 5 and then took the Metro back to his friend's home, where he was staying to attend a Jan. 6 rally. The FBI said it had focused on the home because the person taking the photos used the homeowner's SmartTrip card on the Metro. The congressman, Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia, posted a section of the letter on X, which was amplified by the FBI Rapid Response account. The owner of the home happened to be a neighbor of a former Capitol Police officer named in a story as a potential suspect in the pipe bomb incident on the conservative news site, The Blaze. The Blaze cited a "gait analysis" — a study of how a person walks — saying that it found a 94% match between the officer and the suspect. The former officer now works in campus security for the CIA, a source with knowledge of the person’s employment told NBC News." Did you catch that? The friendly "neighbor" who loaned the 'suspect' a metro card was the neighbor of Ms. KERKHOFF. WTH??? Let's see if we can make this make sense: According to the FBI, the say that as of early November, their suspect uses a metro card to leave the crime scene. Now they say, Brian Cole, their defendant, DROVE around the crime scene. Ok. Ok. Maybe he drove to the crime scene, with the inert bombs. He parked his car ( did he back into the parking slot? LOL) then...after planting the bombs, he used a metro card Ms. Kerkoff's neighbor had loaned out to return home to Maryland. (I guess he came back for his car after all the hullaballoo). Is that right??? Here is the fascinating but confusing story. Let's take a look at the PC affidavit: AFFIDAVIT

CONCLUSION:

I will summarize by stating that we went from the FBI touting how they were after someone who left the scene using mass transit, to a crazy right wing journal claiming PB was a female capitol policewoman now with the CIA who failed her polygraph and was a 94% 'gait' match to, within a month, charging unknown and autistic black guy whom all his neighbors love and call gentle as a mouse.  Parents deny the PB video matches his gate or that he is guilty.  Is he?  Dunno.  Would Patel and Jeanine Pirro LIE about this case to cover for the CIA or someone else?? Dunno.  But, suffice to say that I have lost what faith I may have had in Patel and NEVER had faith in Jeanine.  In closing I note that Lonnie Coffman, the fellow who KNEW about the J6PB bombs before he should have and who definitely brought 11 Molotov Cocktail bombs and a cache of small arms to DC for Jan 6 has received his FULL PARDON from the White House.  How is it that 2 inert unused pipe bombs is WORSE than 11 fire bombs??? Dunno.  But apparently Jeanine and company intend to prosecute Brian Cole Jr. to THE FULL EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS.