1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,800 Joining us to answer some of these is former State Department official Mike 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:07,760 Benz. Mike, what a pleasure to have you on. You're able to more technically put 3 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:12,900 into words how I think most of us feel. We're looking at this this face of this 4 00:00:12,900 --> 00:00:19,620 alleged assassin and it's hard to believe that he has zero digital footprint or 5 00:00:19,620 --> 00:00:25,620 next to zero digital footprint. Normally people of this type of craziness have 6 00:00:25,620 --> 00:00:30,900 some hint somewhere on the Internet. What gives? Absolutely does. Even just on 7 00:00:30,900 --> 00:00:34,200 the on the panel that you just put that he had a Discord account. The thing you 8 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:38,940 talk about on Discord is what's happening on Reddit and what's happening on X and 9 00:00:38,940 --> 00:00:43,500 what's happening on the Internet. I mean that is what Discord effectively does. 10 00:00:43,500 --> 00:00:49,860 Discord is is effectively a gaming server to be able to interact with other 11 00:00:49,860 --> 00:00:54,420 people online. That's what the whole platform exists for. We know that the FBI 12 00:00:54,420 --> 00:00:59,220 was at the shooter's house for about four hours before they disclosed the name 13 00:00:59,220 --> 00:01:04,560 late in the night at about 2 a.m. And it seems to me highly likely that they were 14 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:08,220 seizing all the lack of the electronics. By the way if they were in that person's 15 00:01:08,220 --> 00:01:12,180 house that means that they have that person's IP address where they were 16 00:01:12,180 --> 00:01:16,740 routing in from and should theoretically be able to therefore tell us the entire 17 00:01:16,740 --> 00:01:21,840 Internet history all the way down to the to the shooters search history if they 18 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:25,560 have his IP address. Now I'm not advocating that things of that minute a 19 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:28,980 detail would be disclosed in such a case but absolutely the social media 20 00:01:28,980 --> 00:01:34,740 accounts. The the crowd is a far better investigator than the cops. We know this 21 00:01:34,740 --> 00:01:40,140 because the cops so to speak the FBI asked the crowd for help to identify 22 00:01:40,140 --> 00:01:46,840 January 6 suspects. They turned to Capitol hunters to sedition hunters to 23 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:53,200 unicorn riot to a dozen different Antifa groups to identify and do the sort of 24 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:58,240 forensic investigation that federal investigators feel understaffed to do or 25 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:03,100 that or even to be able to follow hints and leads that the Internet can dig up 26 00:02:03,100 --> 00:02:08,920 because of the ability to have so many different researchers pursue rabbit holes 27 00:02:08,920 --> 00:02:13,840 essentially in detail. But what but you know the FBI is where evidence goes to die just 28 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:18,560 as they have not disclosed a single video file of the January 6 pipe bomber since 29 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:24,100 September 2021. We are coming up now on three years since a single video file of 30 00:02:24,100 --> 00:02:30,940 the guy who walked around on foot for 90 minutes through the fortress of the of the 31 00:02:30,940 --> 00:02:36,460 Capitol home turf of the National Security State Capitol Hill for 90 minutes talking on 32 00:02:36,460 --> 00:02:41,840 a cell phone. The FBI then told us that he and he alone was the this pipe bomber was the 33 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:46,220 only person whose cell phone data was corrupted as opposed to the fact that they 34 00:02:46,220 --> 00:02:50,840 were able to geofence to target fifteen hundred different January 6 folks. But 35 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:57,020 by the way who was in charge of securing the DNC building that Kamala Harris arrived 36 00:02:57,020 --> 00:03:01,220 at the morning of January 6 ahead of time it was the Secret Service. And what 37 00:03:01,220 --> 00:03:05,600 happened to the Secret Service's cell phone records when they when they were 38 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:12,600 subpoenaed by Jim Jordan, they were all deleted this. So DHS and and the Secret Service, they 39 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:17,000 deleted the cell phones of the Secret Service when they were the ones who were supposed to 40 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,380 have caught the January 6 pipe bomber. They were supposed to case the place out. They 41 00:03:20,380 --> 00:03:25,840 missed a pipe bomb sitting on the park bench to the entrance of the building. They didn't 42 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:31,320 even disclose the remainder of the DNC. Right now, right now, if there are any members of 43 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:36,780 Congress, any members of the Oversight Committee or Judiciary Committee listening to us, if you 44 00:03:36,780 --> 00:03:42,080 can subpoena the chain of custody for the missing January 6 pipe bomb DNC tape, they literally 45 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:47,100 had a stationary camera of him approaching the park bench, but then they cut the camera 46 00:03:47,100 --> 00:03:52,560 off. The FBI did right before he reaches into the bag to pull out the pipe bomb. So the fact 47 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:59,220 that the FBI has magically stepped in and taken over a local Pennsylvania investigation and 48 00:03:59,220 --> 00:04:05,720 have effectively, I believe, are keeping his social media accounts effectively embargoed. 49 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:09,980 And who knows if we will ever get them? God willing, we will. But this is the same FBI 50 00:04:09,980 --> 00:04:14,560 that is not disclosing the Biden her tapes. You have the same Justice Department. The FBI 51 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:17,940 is the intelligence arm of the Justice Department. And they told us that they weren't going to 52 00:04:17,940 --> 00:04:24,660 release the her tapes defying a congressional subpoena because the Internet might post misinformation 53 00:04:24,660 --> 00:04:28,040 about it. They did the same thing with the with the Covenant killer shooting. And there's 54 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:30,040 so much more here. But I'll pause. 55 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:38,540 Well, Mike, I think this raises a lot of questions, everything that you just said. But suppose that 56 00:04:38,540 --> 00:04:47,140 the FBI is keep they suppose they did find social media accounts for crooks and they're keeping 57 00:04:47,140 --> 00:04:54,480 it under lock and key. Is there a way to get around that? Does Congress have a way to get around 58 00:04:54,480 --> 00:05:01,480 that? Or is it under that kind of that impermeable box called ongoing FBI investigation? Is there 59 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:02,480 a way around that? 60 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:07,980 In theory, if a special subcommittee was set up under under the House Judiciary Committee, 61 00:05:07,980 --> 00:05:12,780 which has oversight of the Justice Department and the FBI, there could at least be, you know, 62 00:05:12,780 --> 00:05:17,980 you'd have this evidence disclosed in executive session. Essentially, I think the ongoing investigation 63 00:05:17,980 --> 00:05:23,560 would prohibit it necessarily from being disclosed publicly. But you could at least have a gang of 64 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:29,540 eight go in there and and and see evidence under lock and key from an ongoing investigation. And then 65 00:05:29,540 --> 00:05:35,360 those members of Congress could then do a press conference to talk about, you know, whatever they 66 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:39,500 were, you know, what was disclosed to them to the extent that they they find that in their discretion. 67 00:05:39,500 --> 00:05:46,640 But you have this very this very strange situation where the great suspect in almost all of the major 68 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:53,200 terror or insurrectionary type activity over the past 10, 20 years, frankly, the FBI is the one in 69 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:58,580 charge of this investigation and locking up all the evidence is totally damning. You know, we lived 70 00:05:58,580 --> 00:06:03,500 through this situation where there was this Buffalo shooter just about two years ago, and it was blamed 71 00:06:03,500 --> 00:06:08,220 on MAGA, you know, shooting up a public area. It was blamed on the MAGA movement. And then it came out 72 00:06:08,220 --> 00:06:14,460 months later, months later, that this person was on a group chat with with, you know, six individuals, 73 00:06:14,460 --> 00:06:21,460 and one of them was a federal agent, or a former federal agent, you know, former FBI guy. So you 74 00:06:21,460 --> 00:06:28,180 had the Whitmer plot that we were told for months, for months, was Mike, what do you think it is that 75 00:06:28,180 --> 00:06:34,460 they would want to keep under wraps at this point if they find social media accounts for crooks? I mean, 76 00:06:34,460 --> 00:06:40,700 what is it that they're protecting? I know that this opens up a much longer discussion about do we believe 77 00:06:40,700 --> 00:06:50,300 this kid is a lone shooter? But on its surface, does this is there an explanation for why they would want to keep 78 00:06:50,300 --> 00:06:51,700 all of this under wraps? 79 00:06:51,700 --> 00:06:58,460 It is plausible that it is a lone gunman. But when the FBI takes over the investigation, and we don't have a single social media 80 00:06:58,460 --> 00:07:04,700 post within 48 hours, I see the burden of proof flipping the other way, and that they need to prove that to us. 81 00:07:04,700 --> 00:07:10,460 They made that declaration before they even had the cell phone data. You know, I think Fox News is reporting that 82 00:07:10,460 --> 00:07:16,460 they say that they have 70%, you know, done their scrape, but they've already pre-declared the lone gunman. 83 00:07:16,460 --> 00:07:22,460 They've already declared the conclusion before they've even launched the investigation. Now, I want to take folks back 84 00:07:22,460 --> 00:07:30,460 to a very peculiar event in 2015, where in Garland, Texas, this was when President Obama was trying to launch a war on Syria. 85 00:07:30,460 --> 00:07:35,460 And they were trying to gin up this predicate that ISIS recruiting was everywhere, and there's this homegrown threat of ISIS, 86 00:07:35,460 --> 00:07:41,460 and we need to invade Syria to stop crazy lone gunmen doing domestic jihadi terrorist acts. 87 00:07:41,460 --> 00:07:46,460 And the very first attack on U.S. soil to that was an event in Garland, Texas. 88 00:07:46,460 --> 00:07:54,460 And it turned out, now, the gunman shot security guards, and there was a whole murder trial that went on. 89 00:07:54,460 --> 00:07:59,460 It took years, about two or three years after the murder trial, for it to be disclosed, 90 00:07:59,460 --> 00:08:05,460 because the defense lawyer ended up having a friend inside the FBI who leaked it to him, that the FBI 91 00:08:05,460 --> 00:08:13,460 totally radicalized the gunman, and even was telling, an FBI informant received $125,000 92 00:08:13,460 --> 00:08:20,460 to basically become this radical's best friend, and even, quote, text him to tear up Texas, 93 00:08:20,460 --> 00:08:26,460 and to talk the person into the terrorist activity, the same way they did with the Whitmer plot, 94 00:08:26,460 --> 00:08:33,460 the same way with the 1993 World Trade Center event, where it turned out that the FBI actually had insiders 95 00:08:33,460 --> 00:08:36,460 who were planting the explosives in the building. That was reported by the New York Times. 96 00:08:36,460 --> 00:08:37,460 Yeah. 97 00:08:37,460 --> 00:08:45,460 In that case in Garland, Texas, the FBI was actually trailing the gunman in a car behind him 98 00:08:45,460 --> 00:08:51,460 on his way to shooting it up. So even if this is a lone gunman with no wider conspiracy, 99 00:08:51,460 --> 00:08:56,460 you have this situation where there has been almost no terrorist activity on the domestic 100 00:08:56,460 --> 00:09:02,460 homeland whatsoever without some sort of federal official being involved in monitoring that person 101 00:09:02,460 --> 00:09:07,460 and setting them up for entrapment. And then when they do the terrorist act, in order to avoid the 102 00:09:07,460 --> 00:09:12,460 political blowback, they sit on the grenade of an ongoing investigation. And there's a very real 103 00:09:12,460 --> 00:09:18,460 possibility, given the total black hole of evidence about the man who shot the president of the United 104 00:09:18,460 --> 00:09:23,460 States in the face in broad daylight, that suggests that possibility is very real. 105 00:09:23,460 --> 00:09:26,460 Mike Benz, those are excellent questions.