The Secret Service just got caught red-handed covering up one of the biggest security failures in American history.
For four years, they've stonewalled Congress and deleted evidence.
But the Secret Service is now forced to answer one question about January 6 that has them scrambling.
Congress just demanded the Secret Service explain how they "accidentally" wiped agents' phones clean after investigators requested records about January 6.
The agency claims it was routine maintenance – a "device-replacement program" that just happened to delete text messages from January 5-6, 2021.
Nobody's buying that garbage.
When oversight officials request records and the agency immediately destroys evidence, that's not coincidence – that's a cover-up.
House investigators sent Secret Service Director Sean Curran a letter demanding unredacted transcripts of all interviews agents gave to the previous January 6 committee.
They also want multiple agents made available for transcribed interviews within 10 business days after appropriations are reinstated.
The Secret Service thought they could run out the clock on this investigation.
They were wrong.
The Smoking Gun They Tried to Destroy
Here's what the Secret Service desperately doesn't want Congress to discover.
On the morning of January 6, 2021, at least ten different Secret Service agents and two K-9 units swept the Democratic National Committee headquarters before Kamala Harris arrived.
A viable pipe bomb sat in relatively plain sight next to a park bench outside the building.
Every single agent walked within feet of the device.
The bomb-sniffing dogs were brought within feet of the explosive.
None of them detected it.
A plainclothes Capitol Police officer finally discovered the bomb around 1:05 p.m. – after Harris had been inside for nearly two hours.
The Vice President-elect came within 20 feet of an explosive device that could have killed her.
But here's the part that exposes this whole operation.
Security footage shows a random passerby with a backpack spotted the bomb and alerted Secret Service agents.
A random citizen found what trained federal agents and bomb-sniffing dogs somehow missed.
That's not a security failure – that's a deliberate blind eye.
Trump's Team Finally Exposing What Biden Buried
The timing of this congressional pressure tells you everything.
For four years under Biden and Harris, these questions got buried.
The January 6 committee spent millions of taxpayer dollars obsessing over Donald Trump while completely ignoring the pipe bomb investigation.
Their 845-page final report mentioned "pipe bomb" exactly five times.
President Trump's name appeared 1,901 times.
Now that Trump's back in power, the truth is finally coming out.
FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino announced in May 2025 they're pushing resources into cases of "potential public corruption" – including the pipe bomb investigation.
These are the same two men who've publicly stated they believe the FBI knows who planted the bombs but won't reveal it.
"I believe the FBI knows the identity of this pipe bomber," Bongino said on his podcast in January 2024. "This was an inside job. And it is the biggest scandal in FBI history."
That's not conspiracy theory talk – that's the Deputy Director of the FBI speaking.
Congress is demanding answers about why the bomber still hasn't been identified after four years, 39,000 video files reviewed, and over 1,000 interviews conducted.
The FBI has prosecuted over 1,500 people for January 6, many identified through far less evidence than exists in the pipe bomb case.
Yet somehow this bomber remains a ghost.
The Pattern Connects to Trump Assassination Attempts
The Secret Service's January 6 failures weren't isolated incidents.
This is the same agency that failed to prevent two assassination attempts against President Trump during the 2024 campaign.
Communication breakdowns, missed threats, and deleted evidence have become the Secret Service's trademark under Democrat control.
A Department of Homeland Security watchdog report from August 2024 detailed the spectacular incompetence on January 6.
Secret Service canine teams were "surprised" they weren't given adequate resources for the security sweep.
The agency blamed policies requiring fewer assets for officials who'd been elected but not yet sworn into office.
That bureaucratic excuse almost got someone killed – and it reveals how little the Secret Service cared about doing their actual job.
The report notes it took the Secret Service 10 minutes to evacuate Harris after the bomb was discovered.
Ten minutes.
If that device had been on a timer set to detonate during her visit, she'd be dead because agents were too slow to react.
Congressional Investigators Smell a Rat
Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund testified in 2021 that the pipe bombs were deliberately placed "right off the edge of our perimeter" to draw resources away from the Capitol.
"I think there was significant coordination with this attack," Sund stated under oath.
The evidence backs him up.
Security footage shows the bomber placing devices in locations designed to be found, not hidden for maximum damage.
The suspect didn't push the bombs deep into bushes where they'd cause carnage.
They were left in relatively plain view – as if someone wanted them discovered at a specific time to create chaos.
One bomb had a "60-minute egg timer" according to congressional testimony.
Questions remain about whether the devices were ever meant to detonate or simply to divert law enforcement at a critical moment.
The FBI released detailed surveillance footage, offered a $500,000 reward, and published the suspect's height (5 feet 7 inches), clothing description, and shoe type (Nike Air Max Speed Turf).
Despite this level of detail, federal investigators under Biden claimed they still couldn't identify the bomber.
That's either breathtaking incompetence or a deliberate refusal to solve a case that might expose uncomfortable truths about January 6.
The Cover-Up Unravels Under Trump
Cell tower data from the area should have provided multiple leads.
The FBI conducted what former officials called a near "complete geofence" of the relevant locations using cellphone data.
A January 2025 congressional report revealed the FBI identified five persons of interest whose cellular data matched the bomber's movements on January 5, 2021.
The Bureau has "refused to provide additional information about these investigative leads."
That's obstruction of a congressional investigation.
The Secret Service's deleted text messages are the smoking gun.
Those communications would reveal what agents knew about the bombs, when they knew it, and why security sweeps failed so catastrophically.
The Department of Homeland Security Inspector General specifically requested those records as part of the January 6 investigation.
Shortly after that request, the Secret Service wiped the phones clean.
They claimed it was a routine technology upgrade that had been planned for months.
But the timing exposed the lie – texts disappeared right after oversight officials came asking questions.
Congress isn't letting this slide anymore.
The letter to Director Curran specifically demands all documents and communications related to the "cellphone migration" that wiped agents' phones between January and April 2021.
Investigators want to know who authorized the deletions, who knew about the Inspector General's request, and whether this constitutes destruction of federal records.
Democrats Protected These Agencies for Four Years
Here's what makes this whole cover-up even more outrageous.
Kamala Harris herself has remained completely silent about nearly being killed by a pipe bomb.
She's compared January 6 to Pearl Harbor and September 11.
She's used the Capitol riot to attack Trump and his supporters for four years.
But she's never publicly discussed the explosive device that came within 20 feet of ending her life.
Why the silence?
Because any honest investigation into the pipe bombs would expose the Secret Service's failures and raise questions about who really planted those devices.
The media hasn't bothered asking her about it either.
They're too busy carrying water for the same Deep State agencies that stonewalled Trump for four years.
Now Trump's back, and the reckoning has begun.
Congressional investigators aren't accepting vague explanations about deleted texts and missed security sweeps.
The Secret Service failed spectacularly on January 6 – then they destroyed evidence and obstructed oversight for four years.
With Trump's team at the FBI and Congress finally asking the right questions, the cover-up is falling apart.
The same corrupt agencies that protected themselves under Biden and Harris are about to face accountability.
And they know it.
¹ Rep. Barry Loudermilk, Letter to Secret Service Director Sean Curran, November 10, 2025.
² House Committee on Administration, "Four Years Later: Examining the State of the Investigation into the RNC and DNC Pipe Bombs," January 2, 2025.
³ Ibid.
⁴ Dan Bongino, The Dan Bongino Show, January 2024.
⁵ Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General, "The Secret Service's Preparation for, and Response to, the Events of January 6, 2021," August 2024.
⁶ Federal Bureau of Investigation, "FBI Washington Field Office Releases Video and Additional Information Regarding the Pipe Bomb Investigation," January 2, 2025.
