FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed Thursday that the long-awaited arrest in the 2021 pipe bomb case exposes the corruption and incompetence of the previous administration. Patel told Newsmax that critical evidence in the case was deliberately left untouched for four years. The incoming Trump team was forced to rebuild the investigation from scratch.
Patel called the breakthrough “a victory for the team across the interagency,” praising state and local authorities. He confirmed the massive effort took the new administration just eight months to solve.
The Director slammed the neglect under the previous administration. Patel said, “In eight months, we came in and reviewed all of the evidence that had sat alone and on the sidelines for the prior four years of the Biden administration.”
He said the failure was either incompetence or something worse. Patel said, “In my opinion, the prior administration either was completely incompetent or intentional in their weaponization of justice and law enforcement.”
Patel put the pipe bomb case in the same category as other abuses. He added, “And we know they have a track record — Arctic Frost, Russiagate, and so many others. So I put this in that folder.”
Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino assembled a dedicated nationwide team of specialists to handle the cleanup. They were ordered to rescrub massive amounts of digital data and reexamine neglected leads.
Patel stressed that the breakthrough required intense manual labor, not simple computer software. He said, “This is hundreds of people, thousands of man-hours, going line by line.”
The Director’s message to the new team was clear: “Coming up short was not an acceptable position for me.” The successful arrest proves the return of objective, unpoliticized law enforcement under the new leadership.