Kash Patel’s Big Test: How He Handles the Government's J6 Pipe Bomb Suspect

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Those of us grossly disappointed in Kash Patel's performance as FBI director, despite our high hopes at his appointment, now have an objective test case by which he might be judged fairly.

It seems that dogged citizen sleuths were able to do what vaunted FBI investigators had been unable - or unwilling - to do after nearly five years of work and millions of dollars spent: Identify the elusive individual who planted the pipe bombs outside RNC and DNC headquarters on January 6, 2021.

Many of us on the right supporting the President’s agenda, me included, had suspected from the jump that the pipe bomb suspect was a government operative. And that his or her goal was to create a distraction on January 6 that would divert police attention during the giant Deep State influence operation that was the January 6 "insurrection." Alternatively, the purpose of the Deep State plotters, we surmised, may have been to detonate the bombs and subsequently blame it on “right-wing MAGA” types, if the Deep State’s Capitol insurrection didn’t go quite as planned.

After more than four years, the FBI hadn’t identified the suspect who planted the bombs, despite ample video footage of the perpetrator in the most heavily surveilled city in the world, with cameras hanging from practically every building and lamppost. This, even though the suspect apparently used a cell phone during their bomb-planting operation, and the US intelligence services have the most robust ability to track and identify any electronic device in the world. And despite the fact that the FBI managed to locate, round up and charge over a thousand patriotic Americans, including grandmas with cancer, who had the temerity to attend a political rally on January 6 in support of President Trump and perhaps wander around the Capitol Building after being ushered in by law enforcement personnel.

No, the FBI was unable to identify and arrest the bomber. Or was this "incompetence" willful? Did the FBI tank their own investigation because they knew the "bomber" was one of their own Deep State players whose identity they had a vested interest in not uncovering?

Thanks to the excellent reporting of Steve Baker at the Blaze, we learn that the suspect has now apparently been identified as a former Capitol Police officer turned CIA officer named Shaunee Kerkhoff. If you were to craft a fictional character taking part in a Deep State conspiracy to undermine the major political party leader whose mission was to take down that Deep State, it might look like Ms. Kerkhoff.

She had been a stand-out athlete and scholar in college as a top soccer player before suffering a severe leg injury during a game. After recuperating, she played for a short time on a professional women's soccer team before entering a Park Ranger program and then joining the Capitol Police in 2018. Following her "mission complete" assignment on January 6, she was hired by the CIA to work in a security role later in 2021.

Kerkhoff took part in this interesting public service announcement, promoting something called “It’s On Us.” Wikipedia describes “It’s on Us” as “a social movement created by Barack Obama and White House Council on Women and Girls to raise awareness and fight against sexual assault on United States college campuses for both men and women.” Okay, it screams Woke.

Ms. Kerkhoff's identity was reportedly determined through something called "gait analysis" software, a computer analysis program that uses a ”software algorithm that analyzes walking parameters including flexion (knee bend), hip extension, speed, step length, cadence, and variance.”

Ms. Kerkhoff had an added factor working against her in terms of the program’s ability to identify her gait. The severe soccer injury she suffered in college, which fractured her tibia, left her with a slight permanent limp. That trait made the gait analysis that much more effective in the case of Ms. Kerkhoff, whose identity was determined with 94 percent certainty. Experts in gait analysis, adding their human analytical skills, raised that confidence level to 98 percent certainty.

Now that the big job of identifying the suspect in the pipe bomb planting has been achieved, thanks to the civilian sleuths, it will be the job of the FBI to pick up the ball and determine everyone involved in this conspiracy. And make no mistake: Ms. Kerkhoff’s identification, assuming it is accurate, and the identification of all those directing or working with her, is of vital importance to the continuation of our country as a viable republic. I am not overstating this.

The effort by Ms. Kerkhoff and all of her co-conspirators was part of a much larger enterprise by the Democratic Party and its embedded infrastructure within the federal government, generally referred to as the Deep State, to cripple the opposition party’s leader and his entire movement. This is a huge deal.

And the exposure of that entire criminal enterprise will come down to one man: FBI Director Kash Patel. It is absolutely incumbent on Mr. Patel to have the FBI interrogate Ms. Kerkhoff, identify all of her co-conspirators, seize and analyze all of her electronic devices and those of her fellow collaborators, and appropriately charge all of these individuals with violating various federal laws. They must determine how high up the chain of command the knowledge of her activities went within the Capitol Police, Ms. Kerkhoff’s employer at the time, as well as other agencies.

This should be the acid test for Mr. Patel’s integrity. Will he get to the heart of this matter? If not, he needs to go.