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Federal authorities announced the arrest this week of Brian J. Cole Jr., a 30-year-old from Woodbridge, Virginia, in connection with the pipe bombs left near the DNC and RNC on the night of January 5, 2021. Prosecutors say Cole is charged with transporting explosives across state lines and attempting to destroy property, a grim reminder that the threats surrounding January 6 were more than political theater. Americans deserve to know every provable fact about who tried to bring violence to our capital and why; an arrest is only the start of getting those answers.
On Carl Higbie’s FRONTLINE, Rudy Giuliani bluntly warned that “there’s more to it than we know right now,” and conservatives should take that as a sober prompt for skepticism rather than a conspiracy bumper sticker. Giuliani’s voice represents a segment of Americans who have watched this case collect dust for years while official narratives hardened around the events of January 6. We should welcome an arrest, but we should not swap one set of unanswered questions for another until investigators and prosecutors lay out their evidence in public.
Let’s be honest: this investigation sat largely dormant for nearly five years while theories flourished online and the public’s trust in federal law enforcement eroded. The break came only after a renewed forensic review and what officials say was careful reexamination of existing evidence—proof that persistence matters, but also that we need faster, more transparent probes when national security is at stake. The American people paid attention when the FBI offered a $500,000 reward and still got no answers for years; that gap must be explained in plain language.
At the same time, conservatives should cheer the hard-working agents who rebuilt this case and brought it to a head, while demanding accountability from the brass who let it languish. New leadership has credited forensic work and old-fashioned police work for the breakthrough, and voices on the right who called for results rather than press releases are finally getting one. But praise for victories should not blind us to the need for independent review—if there were missteps, deliberate or negligent, Americans must see them exposed.
The most important fact from the affidavit so far is that the devices were placed at both party headquarters, which undercuts simplistic partisan storylines about motive and points to a more troubling, messy truth. This should cool the rush to politicize every fragment of evidence and instead push lawmakers to insist on transparency, witness interviews, and public release of the key forensic findings. Patriots of every stripe want safety and truth, not theater; if this case taught us anything, it’s that the American people deserve full answers and sober justice, not headlines.
