A former US Capitol Police officer named Shauni Kerkhoff was asked two questions during an FBI polygraph on November 6, 2025: “Did you place those pipe bombs?” and “Did you place those pipe bombs that evening?”
She failed both.
The FBI examiner noted her “very controlled reaction to the news of her failing the polygraph and seemingly rehearsed responses.” Most people who are falsely accused of planting explosives outside the RNC and DNC headquarters react with shock, outrage, or at minimum a raised eyebrow. Kerkhoff’s reaction was “very controlled.” As in: prepared. As in: she’d thought about what she would say if this moment ever came.
So where is Shauni Kerkhoff today? Prison? Under indictment? Grand jury target? Nope. She works for the Central Intelligence Agency.
Let that marinate. A woman identified as a forensic match for the J6 pipe bomber by The Blaze’s Steve Baker — matched by gait analysis, no less — failed an FBI polygraph about whether she planted the bombs, and then got hired by the CIA. In any functional country, that sequence of events would trigger a congressional investigation. In ours, it triggered a job offer.
Here’s the timeline, because it reads like a spy novel written by someone who gave up on making it believable halfway through.
January 5, 2021: Pipe bombs are placed outside the Republican and Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington. The bombs are discovered on January 6, conveniently timed to divert Capitol Police resources during the certification of the election. The FBI launches a massive investigation. Years pass. Nobody is caught. The most surveilled square mile in the Western Hemisphere, cameras on every corner, and the FBI can’t find one person in a hoodie.
November 2025: Nearly five years later, the FBI finally gets around to interviewing Kerkhoff. She takes a polygraph. She fails it. The FBI opens a file on her the very next day — November 7, 2025. They attempt a second interview at her residence on November 12. They conduct a month-long surveillance operation.
December 2025: A man named Brian Cole Jr., 30, of Woodbridge, Virginia, is arrested and charged with placing the bombs. He initially admitted to planting them, then pleaded not guilty.
Now Cole’s defense attorneys are doing something the FBI apparently couldn’t be bothered to do for four years: asking questions about Kerkhoff. They’ve subpoenaed her employment records, home camera footage from January 5, 2021, communications, and device information. They want the video she provided as an alibi — footage of herself at home with puppies on the evening the bombs were placed.
Puppies. Her alibi is puppies.
The DOJ’s response to all of this? They’re trying to hold Cole’s lawyers in contempt for publicly posting their allegations about Kerkhoff. Not investigating the allegations. Not explaining why a woman who failed a pipe bomb polygraph is now employed by the CIA. They want to punish the lawyers for talking about it.
Think about what the government is telling you here. They arrested Brian Cole and charged him with planting bombs that were placed four years ago. They had a former Capitol Police officer who failed a polygraph about those same bombs, whose gait matched surveillance footage, and who gave a “controlled” and “rehearsed” response when confronted. And instead of following that thread, they hired her at Langley and are now trying to silence the defense attorneys who noticed.
Every year since January 6, 2021, the FBI has told us they were working tirelessly to identify the pipe bomber. The most sophisticated law enforcement apparatus on the planet. Facial recognition. Cell tower data. Gait analysis. And for four years — nothing. Then a journalist at The Blaze does what the FBI couldn’t, identifies a suspect who happens to be a former Capitol Police officer now working for the CIA, the FBI finally interviews her, she fails a polygraph, and instead of an indictment we get a classified job and a contempt motion against the people asking questions.
The pipe bombs were placed to create a diversion. Five years later, the cover-up is doing the same thing.
