FBI unraveled Jan. 6 pipe bombs case using new software to decode suspect’s cell data

Published December 15, 2025 12:19pm ET



The FBI untangled the mysterious Jan. 6, 2021, pipe bombs case by relying on a “new computer program,” which deciphered cellphone data that the agency had held for years.

Earlier this month, the government charged Brian Cole Jr. with planting the pipe bombs outside the Republican and Democratic national committees on the eve of Jan. 6, saying the Trump administration had made the arrest after nearly five years without “any new information.”

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