Three of the most important unsolved mysteries in current political historical past are being reviewed by the FBI, deputy director Dan Bongino introduced Monday.
Bongino, a former NYPD officer, Secret Service agent and conservative commentator, revealed on X that he and bureau Director Kash Patel had determined to “both re-open, or push further sources and investigative consideration” to the discovery of cocaine within the West Wing through the Biden administration, the leak of a draft Supreme Courtroom opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, and the planting of pipe bombs outdoors the Democratic and Republican nationwide committees hours earlier than the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
“I obtain requested briefings on these circumstances weekly and we’re making progress,” Bongino added in his publish. “When you’ve got any investigative tips about these issues which will help us then please contact the FBI.”
Cracking the case
On July 2, 2023, a dime-sized bag of cocaine was found within the West Wing, forcing the evacuation of the White Home.
A Secret Service agent had found the unlawful drug in a cubby positioned in a vestibule one flooring beneath the Oval Workplace and steps from the State of affairs Room throughout a routine sweep of the premises.
Then-President Joe Biden and his household, together with first son Hunter Biden — who had struggled with crack dependancy previously — had been at Camp David on the time to mark Independence Day weekend.
After 11 days of investigating, the Secret Service wrapped up its probe with out figuring out a suspect “resulting from a scarcity of bodily proof” and a supposed lack of cameras to seize who could have dropped off the dishevelled.
President Trump speculated in February that “both Joe or Hunter” left the unlawful drug within the government mansion.
Dobbs leak
In Could 2022, Politico printed a leaked draft of Supreme Courtroom Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion within the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Girls’s Healthcare, upholding a Mississippi legislation banning abortion after 15 weeks and leaving regulation of the process as much as every state.
The gorgeous leak set off protests on the properties of conservative justices and represented a devastating breach of long-respected confidentiality surrounding the excessive courtroom’s deliberations.
In the long run, Alito’s opinion hewed intently to the leaked draft, with the justice writing at one level: “Roe was egregiously flawed from the beginning. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the choice has had damaging penalties. And much from bringing a few nationwide settlement of the abortion concern, Roe and [Planned Parenthood v.] Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division.”
Chief Justice John Roberts promptly ordered an investigation, however after eight months, Marshal of the Supreme Courtroom Gail Curley stated in January 2023 that she and the courtroom’s inner police power had been unable to determine the leaker.
DC pipe bomber
On the night time of Jan. 5, 2021, somebody carrying a backpack and carrying a grey-hooded sweatshirt, masks, gloves, glasses, and a pair of Nike Air Max Pace Turf sneakers dropped two pipe bombs outdoors Republican and Democratic headquarters within the nation’s capital.
Whereas the explosives didn’t detonate, the FBI assessed that they had been “viable.”
Then-Vice President-elect Kamala Harris visited the Democratic Nationwide Committee headquarters the following day, shortly earlier than the Capitol riot started, and was evacuated after the pipe bombs had been recognized by a passerby.
The FBI has launched surveillance footage and different proof to the general public in a bid to get help in figuring out the suspect.
In a Home GOP report launched in early 2025, lawmakers claimed preliminary inquiries “yielded a promising array of knowledge and revealed quite a few individuals of curiosity” — however “little significant progress” has been made since.
The bureau is providing a $500,000 award for data resulting in a suspect’s seize and conviction.
