Retired FBI Agent says accused RNC-DNC pipe bomber arrest demonstrates power of skilled objective apolitical FBI leadership at House hearing

Retired FBI Special Agent Chris Piehota says in testimony at the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee to Investigate the Remaining Questions Surrounding January 6 first hearing that the FBI managed investigative workloads that could result in terabytes of specialized data requiring a small standing army to process findings, with factors such as case ownership churn, case agent reassignment, insufficient investigative skill or experience, investigative or analytic stovepipes, and overwhelmed administrative systems potentially converging to cause unforeseen investigative gaps if pipe bomb investigation was not actively led and managed, that bomb suspect Brian Cole's arrest revalidates the power, effectiveness, and necessity of skilled objective apolitical well-led FBI, though Cole arrest resulted from a salvage operation, with salvage operations and cold case approaches unable to protect America, indicating still more work rebuilding an FBI effectively meeting and defeating twenty-first century threats while protecting Americans and upholding the Constitution.