The revelations from Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., the chairman of the House Administration oversight subcommittee, adds new intrigue to a debate that has gripped Washington for nearly four years: Why can’t the FBI with so much evidence and manpower identify the suspect who planted the explosive devices at the Democrat and Republican Party headquarters hours before the Capitol was breached.

“In the days and weeks following January 6, 2021, the FBI opened an investigation into the pipe bomber and attempted to identify the suspect by analyzing cell phone data linked to the area surrounding the RNC and DNC,” Loudermilk told Just the News.

“In June 2023, the former Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, Steve D’Antuono, who oversaw the pipe bomb investigation, said that the FBI received corrupted data from one of the cell carriers and that it most likely contained the identity of the pipe bomber. Given the significance of this information, my Subcommittee sent letters to the three major cell carriers, asking them to respond to Mr. D’Antuono’s claim of corrupted data,” he said.

“Every major cell carrier responded and confirmed that they did not provide the FBI corrupted data,” Loudermilk said. […]

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“The COVID-19 vaccine should be pulled from the market,” he said. “They have not had the safety track record America wanted to see.”

He added that many who have taken the COVID-19 vaccine have suffered injuries from the vaccine, got disabilities or even died.

Numerous lawmakers and doctors have expressed concern about the safety of the vaccine and whether the federal government and vaccine makers fully disclosed the risks.

In January, Florida’s top doctor called for the halt of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine use. […]

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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin revoked the plea deal in August after uproar. The deal was approved by retired Brig. Gen. Susan K. Escallier. Specifics of the plea deal were never released, but the New York Times previously reported that it removed the possibility of the death penalty.

An anonymous government official confirmed to the AP that the deal would eliminate the death penalty in exchange for guilty pleas at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The deal would be in effect for Mohammed, and co-defendants Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi.

Further details of the judge’s order were not immediately available because Air Force Col. Matthew McCall has not publicly posted or officially announced the ruling. But a report from a legal blog indicated that McCall ruled Austin lacked the authority to reverse the plea deals.

Prosecutors allege that Mohammad presented the idea of hijacking the planes and flying them into the towers to Osama bin Laden in 1996. Hawsawi has been accused of helping the hijackers with finances and travel arrangements related to the attack, while Attash is accused of providing them with combat training. […]

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Kennedy, who has been touted as an anti-vaccine activist, has been teased as a public health official under Trump’s second administration since he endorsed the former president earlier this year. The exact role that Kennedy would play has not been clear.

The former Democrat rejected allegations that he is “anti-vaccine” and said he wanted to be more transparent on health and vaccine issues so Americans can make more informed decisions.

“I’m not going to take away anybody’s vaccines,” Kennedy told NBC News. “If vaccines are working for somebody, I’m not going to take them away. People ought to have choice, and that choice ought to be informed by the best information.”

“I’m going to make sure scientific safety studies and efficacy are out there, and people can make individual assessments about whether that product is going to be good for them,” he said. […]

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Cheney-endorsed Susan Wild and John Avlon lost their closely watched House races to a Republican challenger and Republican incumbent, respectively.

Pennsylvania three-term incumbent Wild made a series of blunders in her campaign, including sending contradictory letters to pro-Israel and pro-Palestine constituents and mocking a Republican stronghold in her district in a leaked conference call with fellow Democrats, the Washington Free Beacon reported. An allied labor union even “offered $100 stipends to rank-and-file union members to attend” a Labor Day rally with her in Allentown.

She readily conceded to Pennsylvania state Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, calling it a “bitterly disappointing outcome” on X. Her attacks on Mackenzie as an anti-abortion extremist, which he factually rebutted, apparently didn’t stick.

Former CNN anchor Avlon failed to unseat New York GOP Rep. Nick LaLota, whose district covers a Tetris-shaped block of Long Island, reaching only 44% of the vote, Decision Desk HQ projected early this morning. President Biden won the district in 2020. […]

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Stanford University officials tried to stop one author, its medical professor Jay Bhattacharya, from even researching the SARS-CoV-2 infection rate in its backyard, which revealed the virus was already widespread when lockdowns started and far less deadly than authorities claimed.

Faculty pushed Stanford to sanction Scott Atlas, its former radiology chief, for bringing an anti-lockdown voice to President Trump’s coronavirus task force, and the campus newspaper even claimed Atlas threatened Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for her lockdown policies.

Observing the attempted purge of Atlas, the University of California’s National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement held a meeting to discuss whether the Trump adviser even enjoyed academic freedom in his views on COVID, according to Freedom of Information Act productions recently posted by Twitter Files journalist Matt Taibbi’s Racket.

Meeting notes show UC San Diego philosopher Dana Nelkin and UC San Francisco medical professor Suneil Koliwad suggesting that universities have an “obligation to deal with faculty who say and do things with significant chance to harm the public” when there are “basic and clear elements of ‘right’ and ‘wrong'” on public health, Racket‘s James Rushmore reported. […]

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The goal was to bypass the traditional news media who monopolized the White House Correspondents Association press room at the White House and set the “conventional wisdom” such as the false Russia collusion narrative.

In its place, the aides wanted to stand up a new press room in the Old Executive Office Building where new media free from the group think of the legacy press could get briefings, access to the president and flourish.

If there was a sticking point that summer of discontent, it was how the public might react to such a notion.

Four years, four indictments, two assassination attempts, a Jan. 6 based impeachment and a heavy dose of bogus and biased coverage later, the American voting public seems to be clamoring for such a change. […]

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As counties in Pennsylvania have investigated fraudulent voter applications in recent weeks, one group from Arizona has been of particular interest as it works out of Lancaster County, which is home to a large Amish population that both political parties have courted leading up to the presidential election.

Five Pennsylvania counties are investigating possible fraudulent voter applications and mail-in ballot applications in the days and weeks leading up to Election Day.

The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office announced Thursday, “Apparent attempts to submit fraudulent voter registration forms in Berks, Lancaster, Monroe, and York counties have been defeated. The Office of Attorney General is working with the respective county officials to investigate those responsible for this conduct.”

Additionally, Cambria County has found fraudulent voter registration applications. On Tuesday, Monroe County District Attorney Mike Mancuso announced that about 30 irregular voter applications and mail-in ballot request forms are being investigated by his office, with several of them “found to be fraudulent.” One applicant was deceased and several forms were from one person. […]

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Cheney, the daughter of Bush’s former Vice President Dick Cheney, has been one of Harris’ most prominent Republican supporters this election, and has joined her on the campaign trail. Dick Cheney has also endorsed Harris over former President Donald Trump.

Although Bush has kept his promise not to endorse a presidential candidate so far this year, his daughter Barbara Bush has campaigned for the VP.

“I can’t explain why George W. Bush hasn’t spoken out but I think it’s time, and I wish that he would,” Liz Cheney said in Friday’s episode of The New Yorker’s Radio Hour. “When you have Jeff Bezos apparently afraid to issue an endorsement for the only candidate in the race who’s a stable responsible adult because he fears Donald Trump, that tells you why we have to work so hard to make sure that Donald Trump isn’t elected.”

Bush’s former White House communications director Nicolle Wallace also urged her former boss to have a “change of heart” and condemn Trump after he criticized Liz Cheney on the campaign trail this week. […]

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“This is a massive scandal,” Johnson told Just the News in an interview just days after House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer revealed to lawmakers in a confidential memo that the Treasury Department has confirmed it possesses hundreds of Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR’s) for possible money laundering tied to the Democratic Party’s massive online fundraising platform known as ActBlue.

Comer, House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil, Sen. Ron Johnson and 19 state attorneys general have been investigative whether the ActBlue platform is being abused by foreign actors to disguise illicit donations as coming from unwitting and possibly defrauded American citizens.

Steil subpoenaed ActBlue on Wednesday for records, saying he has evidence suggesting China, Iran, Russia and Venezuela may be abusing the platform and questioning whether the Democrat fundraising juggernaut has placed adequate protections to prevent identity theft and fraudulent donations.

Johnson predicted Thursday that new information will be released that “very soon everyone will have to” cover as a news story. […]

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