Barry Loudermilk, who serves as the Chairman of the newly established House Republican-led Select Subcommittee on January 6, has raised concerns over missing surveillance footage from the vicinity of the Republican and Democratic National Committee headquarters. This footage, from the night before the January 6 attack, allegedly captured the areas where pipe bombs were planted.

In a recent interview, Representative Loudermilk from Georgia made a startling revelation about the absence of this crucial footage.

“There remain numerous unanswered questions surrounding this matter,” Loudermilk stated. “As we review video from January 6, we’re particularly interested in footage from early that morning to determine if anyone revisited these locations.”

He continued by expressing his disappointment: “Unfortunately, it seems that the video from January 6 is no longer available. We do have footage from January 5, but we’ve been informed that nobody preserved the recordings from the following day.”

This gap in evidence, Loudermilk noted, “certainly raises our eyebrows.”

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Loudermilk stops short of asserting that the surveillance videos outside both the RNC and DNC were intentionally deleted. But the gap in footage certainly raises many questions, especially when the FBI, before recent events, had identified over 39,000 video frames of the suspect, but had made no arrests.

That changed earlier this month with the arrest of a suspect, 30-year-old Brian Cole Jr., nearly five years after the incident.

Cole allegedly placed the pipe bombs outside both parties’ committee headquarters on the night of January 5th. They were not discovered until around 1 p.m. the following day. So the footage in these locations might have provided a wealth of information. Did Cole return to the scene? What were people doing at these locations? Why did nobody see the devices until mid-afternoon the following day?

As to that last point, Loudermilk went on to explain that there are Capitol Police cameras that picked up footage of the “walking paths” the alleged wannabe bomber took that day. But no, in the areas that would seem critical, those clips are missing. Which is crucial because bomb-sniffing dogs and witnesses somehow missed the devices that day.

“None of the camera angles, like behind the RNC, behind the DNC, that we know of that exists today of where this person would have been, had the closest angles,” he continued. “And so that has inhibited our investigation into this theory of maybe they were placed back out again.”

39,000 video frames, and these, in the most vital locations from January 6th, are missing.

Loudermilk does offer vaguely plausible theories as to why the bombs might have been missed—the dog’s handler might have been distracted when he hit on one device, a witness may not have seen the other device originally—but the fact that the videos apparently don’t exist is quite a hindrance to finding out any information.

This also raises new questions that need to be looked into. Particularly, who removed these videos and why? Was it intentional and with a reasonable explanation, or did somebody go out of their way to suppress evidence? What happened to the chain of custody with these videos?

Cole was arrested at his family home and charged with transporting explosives across state lines with intent to kill, injure, or cause damage, and with attempted malicious destruction of property using explosive materials. Investigators reportedly linked him to the pipe bombs via credit card purchases, cellphone data, and surveillance efforts.

“He’s that quiet individual that you would never imagine could put a pipe bomb.”

U.S. Attorney Pirro tells @IngrahamAngle the D.C. pipe bomb suspect, Brian Cole Jr., kept a low profile and was “always wearing his headphones.” pic.twitter.com/POMRHfkUba

— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 5, 2025

Cole made his initial court appearance on December 5th. He did not enter a plea and was ordered detained pending trial; his next court date is a detention hearing on December 15th.

As RedState has reported, Cole reportedly admitted to committing the crime.

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