Secret Service detail parked feet from the bomb didn’t react for more than two minutes, media reports contend.
An undercover U.S. Capitol Police officer found a pipe bomb planted under a bench outside the Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Jan. 6, 2021, and reported it to a Secret Service detail sitting in two vehicles just feet away, two recent media reports indicate.
The undercover officer’s role in the discovery of the pipe bomb, first reported on Jan. 17 by Steve Baker at Blaze Media, was confirmed by a Capitol Hill source familiar with the investigation.
“I can confirm that it was a plainclothes USCP officer that found the DNC bomb,” the source told The Epoch Times, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
The person who discovered the DNC bomb was previously only described by authorities as a passerby.
An analysis of the discovery of the DNC pipe bomb published on Jan. 18 by Revolver.news said it took more than two minutes for the Secret Service detail protecting Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to visibly react to the presence of the bomb.
Ms. Harris was inside the DNC building at the time the bomb was discovered. The FBI later determined the bomb was planted the night of Jan. 5, along with a similar device left in an alley near the Republican National Committee.
A group of children were allowed to walk near the bench where the bomb sat after the undercover officer discovered the device, Revolver reported.
According to security video of the DNC (Above) released in June last year by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), a man now identified by congressional investigators as the USCP officer approached an SUV owned by the Metropolitan Police Department just after 1:05 p.m. on Jan. 6.
The vehicle was parked in a driveway of the DNC building at the intersection of Canal Street Southeast and South Capitol Street Southeast in Washington D.C.
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