Prosecution of Brian J. Cole Jr. for Jan. 6 pipe bombs raises more questions than it answers

The criminal case against Brian Jerome Cole Jr. for the alleged January 2021 placement of two pipe bombs on Capitol Hill raises more questions than it answers about Cole’s movements that night and why the FBI appears not to have addressed notable actions in its case documents, as well as the strange behavior of Capitol Police investigators that immediately followed.

The government alleges that Cole, 30 — who the defense says is an autistic man with obsessive compulsive disorder — was a lone wolf who somehow evaded the FBI’s massive dragnet for nearly five years. Blaze News examined the charges against Cole to see if his arrest fits with the case history and facts already in the public square. The list of conflicts, problems, and questions