https://revolver.news/2025/12/surprise-surprise-the-fbi-lied-to-you-yet-again/
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Mike Benz reacts to revelations that surveillance footage tied to the pipe bomber was deleted while in FBI custody. Benz calls out the absurdity of the chain of custody, evidence handling, and accountability. .."
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"Psalm 94:20 — Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?"
Yes. By January 6, 2021, law enforcement absolutely had well-established capability to track cell phones using pings, historical cell-site location information (CSLI), GPS data, app metadata, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth logs, and geofence warrants. These techniques were not experimental or new at that time. They had been in routine use for years by the FBI and other agencies, were validated repeatedly in federal courts, and were actively used during 2020–2021 to identify, locate, and arrest January 6 defendants across the country based on phone location data, even when video or eyewitness evidence was weak. The technology existed, the legal framework existed, and the operational expertise existed at that moment in time.
"Proverbs 12:19 — Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment."
Short answer: you cannot prove they were lying without internal documents or testimony, but their explanation strains credibility to the breaking point. By January 2021, the FBI unquestionably knew how to interpret T-Mobile location data in general. They had used similar carrier data, CSLI, pings, and geofence-style analysis for many years and were actively doing so in other January 6 investigations at the same time. So the claim that they suddenly did not know how to interpret such data is, at minimum, highly implausible.
There are only a few realistic possibilities. One, the statement is misleading rather than technically false, meaning they may have understood the data but found it incomplete, poorly formatted, outside the warrant scope, or not legally usable for prosecution, yet summarized this as "we couldn't interpret it." Two, the bureau deprioritized or slow-walked analysis for institutional or political reasons and later framed that decision as a technical limitation. Three, there was genuine internal confusion or bureaucratic failure, which would still represent extraordinary incompetence given their demonstrated capabilities elsewhere. What is least plausible is the literal claim that the FBI, as an institution, did not know how to read or use T-Mobile location data in 2021.
In plain terms, reasonable people are justified in being skeptical. When an agency demonstrates high technical competence in one set of cases and then claims technical incapacity in another case involving an attempted mass-casualty attack, the burden of proof shifts to the agency. Absent transparent documentation, sworn testimony, or released technical details, the statement reads more like damage control than a full explanation.
