Barry Loudermilk, the Georgia Republican now chairing the new House GOP-led Select Subcommittee on January 6, dropped a bombshell of his own this week. In a recent interview, he revealed that key surveillance footage from the areas near the RNC and DNC — the very spots where pipe bombs were planted the night before January 6 — was never preserved.
Read that again.
Footage that should have been treated as crucial evidence in one of the most high-profile domestic security investigations in modern history is simply… gone.
“There’s still so many questions regarding this, because one of the things that has raised our eyebrows is as we go and we look for video on January 6th, because we want early morning video on January 6th to see, did anybody go back to these locations?” he said.
“Unfortunately, that video apparently doesn’t exist anymore,” he stated. “We do have the January 5th video, but we’ve been told that no one ever preserved January 6th.”
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“So that does raise our eyebrows a bit,” he added.
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J6 Subcommittee Chair Loudermilk Says ALL Footage of Pipe Bombs Being Planted at RNC and DNC Was magically DELETEDThe official narrative…
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Loudermilk’s accusation is jaw-dropping, but sadly not surprising. For years, Republicans have suspected that federal agencies during the Biden regime weren’t being transparent about the pipe bomb investigation — and this revelation only adds gasoline to that fire. Footage from cameras positioned near two national party headquarters doesn’t just vanish. Either it was never saved, or someone didn’t want it saved.
Now, Loudermilk isn’t outright accusing anyone of deliberately deleting the surveillance footage — at least not yet. But the fact that entire segments of video are missing from outside both the RNC and DNC should set off alarm bells for anyone with a functioning brain. This isn’t a random security camera at a strip mall. These are the headquarters of the two major political parties in the United States, on the eve of one of the most contentious days in recent history.
And the FBI’s track record only makes the missing footage more suspicious. Before this month, the Bureau claimed it had reviewed over 39,000 frames of video showing the pipe bomb suspect — yet somehow, for nearly five years, it made zero arrests. Not one. All that technology, all that manpower, all that supposed urgency… and nothing.
That finally changed earlier this month when the FBI arrested 30-year-old Brian Cole Jr. But even that raises its own set of questions, especially since the Bureau admits it didn’t uncover new evidence or new witnesses — meaning everything they used to arrest him had been in their possession for years.
According to the charges, Cole planted the pipe bombs outside both party headquarters on the night of January 5th. Yet the devices weren’t discovered until roughly 1 p.m. the next day — hours and hours during which surveillance footage should have been a goldmine. Did Cole return? Who passed through the area? Why did no one notice the bombs sitting there in broad daylight?
Those are the obvious questions any competent investigation would want answered. And that’s exactly why the missing footage is such a glaring problem.
Loudermilk noted that Capitol Police cameras did record some of the alleged bomber’s “walking paths.” But in the spots where the most critical clues would likely appear — the exact areas near the RNC and DNC where the bombs were placed — the recordings are gone. Gone. Inexplicably.
This missing footage becomes even more significant when you consider that bomb-sniffing dogs, police, and witnesses all failed to detect the devices that day. Cameras could have explained how that happened — or at least shown who passed by and when. Instead, the most useful angles are conveniently unavailable.
“None of the camera angles, like behind the RNC, behind the DNC, that we know of that exists today of where this person would have been, had the closest angles,” he continued. “And so that has inhibited our investigation into this theory of maybe they were placed back out again.”
39,000 video frames, and these, in the most vital locations from January 6th, are missing.
Loudermilk does float a couple of theoretical explanations for why the bombs might have been missed — maybe the bomb-sniffing dog’s handler got distracted after alerting on one device, maybe a witness simply overlooked the second one. Fine. Those possibilities exist.
But without the surveillance footage, none of it can be verified. And that’s the real story here: the most important videos simply aren’t there. That’s not a minor inconvenience — it’s a massive roadblock to understanding what actually happened.
And naturally, that raises even bigger questions. Who removed the footage? Why is it gone? Was this an accident — or did someone deliberately wipe evidence? What happened to the chain of custody? Who had access?
If these were any other videos tied to a major security failure — particularly one the government has spent years using as political ammunition — every official involved would be demanding answers. Instead, we get shrugs and excuses.
The public deserves to know whether this is incompetence, corruption, or something far worse. At least with President Trump’s team in office, we have a better than decent chance of finding out the answers to these questions.
