Mike Benz delivered a detailed allegation that the FBI’s handling of the January 6 pipe bomb investigation amounted not to bureaucratic failure but to an intentional obstruction of justice.
Benz said early public reactions framing the matter as incompetence under the Biden-Harris administration misrepresent what he believes occurred.
“The point I’m getting at is what little I checked in on Twitter today. I was frustrated that one of the early evolving narratives here is FBI incompetence under the Biden administration. There’s no f**king way it’s incompetence. It was an open cover up,” he said.
Benz argued that “They gave us fake, doctored footage, and they hid the evidence, and they pulled people off the case. That is not incompetence. That was competence at corruption.”
Benz said the actions he described meet the definition of obstruction of justice.
“What you have here is a crime. You have federal law enforcement officers obstructing justice by destroying an investigation of criminal wrongdoing. We should not be talking about this as though the FBI was incompetent this whole time. We should be talking about this, like the FBI committed a f**king crime of obstructing justice,” he said.
According to Benz, accountability should come through prosecution: “The FBI agents who are a part of this should not be disciplined for incompetence. They should be prosecuted for obstruction.”
Benz also discussed the reported role of Dan Bongino, saying, “Dan Bongino, who took lead on this, as it’s reported, is the f **king man for cracking this and won’t go over the way to the evidence.”
He argued that the contrast lies not between competence and incompetence but between investigation and cover-up.
“The mirror here is not Kash and Dan’s competence to Biden’s incompetence. It’s Kash and Dan’s competence. Biden’s corruption and obstruction and cover up,” he said.
Benz rejected the idea that differences in FBI performance reflected improvements or regressions under shifting administrations.
“I don’t like this emerging dichotomy of this FBI is so much more competent than the last one. No, no, no, no, no, no. They were competent at very different things. Our FBI was competent at cracking the case. Theirs was competent at corrupting it and obstructing it, to kill it and cover it up. One is law enforcement, the other one is law breaking.”
A central element of Benz’s argument involved chain-of-custody questions surrounding security camera footage from the DNC.
He said the relevant evidence must exist in federal records.
“What was the name of the FBI agent, or agents who physically seized the security cameras from the DNC building the day of the incident,” he asked.
Benz said proper documentation is required: “Those names will be in a file chain of custody with the evidence mandatory under law.”
He raised a series of questions about what federal officers did with the material, whether it went to forensic analysis, whether it was stored, and whether any third-party contractors handled digital processing.
Benz also questioned whether the DNC retained copies and said lawmakers should obtain them.
“Subpoena the DNC for their copies of the footage and cross match it against what the FBI showed us, and get the chain of custody and interrogate every single officer who touched it along those links,” he said.
Benz tied these concerns to the handling of cell phone data.
He noted that investigators in other cases used cell phone pings to identify suspects, but that officials said the January 6 pipe bomb investigation was hindered because “the cell data was corrupted.” He said the explanation unraveled once Republicans gained control of the House.
Benz said, “Finally, the cell carriers, late in the game, like 2024 got back to the Republican controlled House of Representatives. It said, actually, the FBI is either lying or something happened to the tapes after we gave it to them, because when we gave the data to the FBI, it wasn’t corrupted.”
He said this raised two possibilities: “Either the FBI deliberately corrupted the cell data or accidentally did so.”
Benz pressed further on identifying individuals involved.
“What was the name of the FBI agent coordinating with the cell phone carrier? Carriers for the cell phone data. What was his or her name?” he asked.
Benz said the names of agents who handled subpoenas, received data, and maintained records should be retrievable.
He said gaps in those records would themselves suggest violations. “If there’s not a hard record, there’s a violation of federal records law,” he said.
He concluded by outlining the potential criminal exposure he believes may exist.
“You’ve got a crime there. You got a crime of perjury, or a crime of obstruction or crime of tampering with evidence, or a crime of failure to adhere to Bell records laws,” Benz said.
He argued that matching evidence, identifying agents, and pinpointing when data or footage changed could show “who sabotaged this, to cover this up, to protect the narrative that this was some white supremacist MAGA supporter.”
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