One of the more curious things about the January 6, 2021, events is that the pipe bomb story never got solved by the Biden FBI and DOJ teams. For all the time and energy they poured out, the case involving bombs and the targeting of the two political parties went quiet, leading to a lot of conspiracy theories. That is, until this week.

Virginia Democratic Senator Mark Warner gave arguably the most head-scratching reaction to this case. In an interview on the newly branded MS NOW (formerly MSNBC), Warner said he found the Trump administration's and the FBI's positive responses to an arrest puzzling.

Warner said: "I got to tell you, it kind of makes me — looking at this crowd, doing a victory lap, when all the senior FBI officials across all key divisions have been fired for political purposes, when in some field offices, up to 45% of the FBI officers who were doing things like counter espionage and cyber have been assigned to do immigration cases."

He then added the kicker, "It's a little rich that they're saying they [make] America safer. How much earlier could we have caught this guy if resources hadn't been diverted?"

Tennessee Republican Congressman Tim Burchett quipped to Warner, "Your Democratic party controlled FEDS had it for 4 years. [Trump's team] had it 9 months and solved it."

The point here isn't that one group is a better investigative group than the other. Warner actually did hint at the real issue here: resource allocation. I fully understand the FBI and DOJ can't chase down every case. However, the Biden administration made January 6 a central part of its legal enforcement plan.

The time difference between Trump's team, which openly said it prioritized this case, and the Biden team, which did not, seems somewhat telling. For all the events on January 6, this case was not a priority for anyone on Biden's team. It's worth asking: "Why?"

Democrats were fond of arguing for years, and still do argue, that democracy is on the ballot. They claimed to oppose "threats to democracy." I don't claim to be the smartest man in the world. Still, I would think a person putting bombs in front of both political party headquarters while a mass riot happens in the nation's capital to be a "threat to democracy."

It's hard to avoid making the same conclusion that Mollie Hemingway makes, saying that Biden prioritized throwing normal people in the crowd that day in jail versus targeting hard threats. Because let's be honest for a moment: had those bombs gone off, either of them, that would be a legitimate act of domestic terrorism in Washington, D.C.

That's certainly the view you get when looking at Kash Patel's statement on the matter: "When Dan Bongino and I came to the FBI in March, the pipe bomb investigation had been stalled for going on 5 years. We rebuilt it from scratch - re-running every lead, re-testing every piece of evidence, bringing in top experts, and deploying new technology to engineer the break that finally nailed the suspect."

The last point he makes about "deploying new technology" is also likely a critical one here. The way they broke this case was by looking through the charging document and triangulating hundreds of thousands of purchases from cell phone data and other information to figure out who to arrest. 

There's been a dramatic increase in the quality of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the last few years, enabling them to process that level of data. Contrary to what you've seen on television crime shows, that kind of analysis is challenging to perform, especially at the scale they did here, covering three years of purchases and movement. 

So, to be fair to the Biden administration, they may not have had the necessary tools to get this job done. However, it also seems clear that this wasn't a priority for them. 

According to reports, the suspect started building these kinds of explosive devices in 2019. The Daily Wire's deep dive on the suspect claims his family sued the Trump administration over illegal immigration, and demanded the Biden administration "address racism." And the family hired the lawyer involved with the George Floyd case. 

It's just hard to take it seriously that this was just a technological failure on the part of the FBI when the same officials went full force on things like January 6 investigations, surveilling Republican members of Congress in the Arctic Frost probe, and the litany of suits against Trump.

Some legal tasks were clearly a high priority for the Biden administration. But the case where we know both Nancy Pelosi and Kamala Harris could have been killed by a single bomb in front of the headquarters of the DNC got nothing. What were the priorities of the Biden administration?

You can't say he was too busy defending democracy. At this rate, you can't even make a case that Biden was taking steps to protect members of his own party and administration.

The pipe bomb case is another example from the Biden administration where there was a clear issue in the country that required a response. And for reasons no one can define, Biden's people were nowhere to be found. 

Fortunately, we are on the verge of closing this dark chapter and all the unfortunate chapters in it. That's what happens when law enforcement leadership prioritizes cases that matter.