Vice President Kamala Harris was less than 20 feet from a “viable” pipe bomb on January 6, according to a new report from Homeland Security’s internal watchdog.
The Office of the Inspector General released its report on Friday detailing the Secret Service’s preparation for, and response to, the events of January 6, 2021. Five people died and hundreds were injured in the Capitol assault, where rioters aimed to prevent the certification of the election for President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Among the shocking revelations was that Harris, then vice president-elect, was within close range to a “viable” pipe bomb that Secret Security had missed in a security sweep.
“The pipe bomb had been placed near the [Democratic National Committee] building the night before”, the report states, but Secret Service personnel did not identify it during their security sweep on the morning of January 6.
After reading the article, it says there was a pipe bomb found earlier that sweep at the RNC also. It makes me wonder if beyond the MAGAts, there may be foreign interests involved here at the same time?
I have few doubts that there were many plans aimed at agitation depending on the events of Jan. 6.
I think they just forgot that one on the way to the Capitol
They were literally there to murder the Republican vice president and anyone else who refused to support the coup. It’s not surprising at all that the RNC was a target.
Good point!
Probably no foreign interests (not directly anyway, plenty about stirring up division). First it’s way too sloppy, if a competent foreign country wants to do something they will do something far more guaranteed. Reminds me of this: https://youtu.be/b4meFC1ee7Q Second no country would want that to come out and come back to them. It would be extremely painful.
Or the RNC one was just a decoy.
That’s not what the report said.
How would they know whether or not it was a decoy unless they know who planted it?
A decoy is different from a dud.