It has been nearly four years since an unidentified individual left pipe bombs outside both the Republican and Democratic National Committees' headquarters.

While the FBI maintains that its investigation has been hampered by corrupted cell phone data, one prominent lawmaker says that isn't true. 

Committee demands information about official's testimony

Georgia Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk serves as chairman of the House Administration oversight subcommittee, and he conveyed that message to Just the News.

"In the days and weeks following January 6, 2021, the FBI opened an investigation into the pipe bomber and attempted to identify the suspect by analyzing cell phone data linked to the area surrounding the RNC and DNC," Loudermilk explained.

"In June 2023, the former Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, Steve D'Antuono, who oversaw the pipe bomb investigation, said that the FBI received corrupted data from one of the cell carriers and that it most likely contained the identity of the pipe bomber," he recalled.

"Given the significance of this information, my Subcommittee sent letters to the three major cell carriers, asking them to respond to Mr. D'Antuono's claim of corrupted data,” he said.

FBI did not tell cell companies that data was corrupted

"Every major cell carrier responded and confirmed that they did not provide the FBI corrupted data," the Georgia congressman noted.

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"Additionally every major cell carrier confirmed they were never notified that the FBI had any issues accessing the data," he added.

"This contradictory testimony raises some serious questions about the status of the investigation into the pipe bomber and about why the case remains unsolved nearly four years later," Loudermilk went on to stress.

FBI official: "We have corrupt data from one of the providers"

Just the News highlighted D'Antuono's testimony to the House Judiciary Committee regarding the supposed problem of corrupted phone data.

"We did a complete geofence. We have complete data. Not complete, because there's some data that was corrupted by one of the providers, not purposely by them, right," the website quoted D'Antuono as saying.

"It just -- unusual circumstance that we have corrupt data from one of the providers," the FBI official told lawmakers.

"But for that day, which is awful because we don't have that information to search. So could it have been that provider? Yeah, with our luck, you know, with this investigation it probably was, right," D'Antuono asserted.