FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino have an opportunity to solve some of the nation’s biggest mysteries, from the January 6 pipe bomber to the deadliest mass shooting in American history.

January 6 Pipe Bomber

After an investigation lasting over four years, the bureau has apparently not discovered the suspect accused of placing pipe bombs at the headquarters of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) and Republican National Convention (RNC).

In January, the bureau published a video that appeared to show the suspect planting a bomb near the DNC. Despite the FBI’s $500,000 reward for information resulting in the arrest and conviction of the suspect, the investigation has yet to be resolved.

FBI Releases New Information About Pipe Bomb Suspect to Encourage Additional Tips From the Public https://t.co/syH2b39IZq@ATFWashington @CapitolPolice @DCPoliceDept pic.twitter.com/sBillwx2GH

— FBI Washington Field (@FBIWFO) January 2, 2025

Prior to the agency’s announcement, two House oversight subcommittees published an interim staff report slamming the January 6th Committee for failing to thoroughly investigate the pipe bombs. (RELATED: Kash Patel Fires Up First Statement As FBI Director, Tells Media ‘Bring It On’)

The report found that law enforcement did not conduct a thorough sweep of the DNC’s headquarters, allowing then-Vice President Kamala Harris to walk into the building while the pipe bomb was still outside.

The report also said the pipe bombs helped divert law enforcement “from the Capitol at a critical time.”

Are we finally going to find out who placed the pipe bombs in DC on January 5th, 2021?? pic.twitter.com/wpBD07tCmz

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 24, 2025

Although the FBI has not identified the suspected pipe bomber, the bureau has identified over 1,500 people related to events at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump signed a day one executive order pardoning and commuting the sentences of approximately 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants.

Newly named FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent who previously hosted “Unfiltered with Dan Bongino” on Fox, covered the Jan. 6 pipe bomb on his show and deemed it an “unsolved mystery.”

Thomas Matthew Crooks

There are more questions than answers surrounding Thomas Matthew Crooks, the individual who attempted to assassinate Trump at a July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

He took the life of firefighter Corey Comperatore and injured two other rally attendees in addition to Trump. Crooks was killed by the Secret Service.

But almost nine months later, little is known about the gunman.

The FBI has not yet identified a motive for Crooks. He was a registered Republican but donated $15 to the Progressive Turnout Project on the ActBlue donation site in January 2021, campaign finance records showed.

The FBI’s Operational Technology Division in Quantico, Virginia, accessed his encrypted phone and discovered his last search was for pornography, an anonymous source told the Daily Beast. There were also recent texts from his parents inquiring about his whereabouts, according to the source.

The FBI reportedly briefed Congress on an online gaming account that did not actually belong to Crooks, according to a federal law enforcement official. The account, tied to the platform “Steam,” allegedly posted: “July 13 will be my premier, watch as it unfolds.”

More questions were raised when The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project tracked devices that routinely visited Crook’s workplace and home.

“Someone who regularly visited Crooks home and work also visited a building in Washington, DC located in Gallery Place,” the group tweeted.

“This is in the same vicinity of an [FBI] office on June 26, 2023. Who’s device is this?” the account wrote.

Someone who regularly visited Crooks home and work also visited a building in Washington, DC located in Gallery Place.

This is in the same vicinity of an @FBI office on June 26, 2023.

Who’s device is this? pic.twitter.com/b9ZIO5utDC

— Oversight Project (@OversightPR) July 22, 2024

Crooks also repeatedly visited the Clairton Sportsmen’s Club in Pennsylvania, according to a logbook of the club acquired by Republican Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley’s office.

The log shows the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had a police training at the club on May 23, a day after Crooks visited on May 22. Both visits appear to have occurred in 2024.

Ryan Wesley Routh

Around two months later, another gunman attempted to assassinate Trump, according to authorities.

Ryan Wesley Routh allegedly directed an AK-47-style weapon at Trump while he was golfing at Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach in September 2024.

A Secret Service agent was sweeping the perimeter when he saw Routh pointing a rifle, according to a Department of Justice (DOJ) press release. The agent subsequently fired at Routh, the DOJ said.

Routh previously contributed over $100 to Act Blue and donated to the 2020 presidential campaigns of Andrew Yang, Tulsi Gabbard, Beto O’Rourke and Tom Steyer, according to federal campaign finance records. (RELATED: Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard, State Dept Tell Employees To Ignore Elon Musk’s Demand For Work Accomplishments)

His pickup truck, photographed outside of his Hawaii home, reportedly displayed a Biden-Harris bumper sticker. Routh also had a history of slamming Trump on social media.

While the FBI appears to have little information about Crooks and his motives, Routh had an unusually extensive digital footprint.

“All videos, still images, text files, and audio files constitute approximately 4,000 terabytes (million gigabytes) of digital review to complete,” a DOJ filing noted in October 2024.

The U.S. government seized several electronic devices and executed 13 search warrants in Hawaii, Florida and North Carolina, according to the documents.

Biden’s DOJ requested an indefinite delay because the case was so “unusual or complex.”

FBI agents discovered six cellphones in a car Routh was allegedly driving. They also discovered a list of dates in August, September and October 2024 of venues where Trump had attended or was slated to appear.

There was also a notebook with phone numbers and names relating to Ukraine.

Routh was obsessed with Ukraine and visited the country in 2022, CNN reported. He depicted himself as a Ukrainian military official and used Facebook to try to recruit Afghans to fight for Ukraine.

Ukraine’s International Legion stated that Routh had no relation to the unit.

2017 Las Vegas Mass Shooting

A mass shooter killed 58 people and injured over 700 on Oct. 1, 2017 at a concert in Las Vegas. Nearly eight years after the deadliest mass shooting in American history, many questions remain unanswered — including about the shooter’s motive.

Stephen Paddock targeted concert attendees at an open air country music concert before shooting and killing himself. He had 18 AR-10 and AR-15 rifles in two hotel rooms at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, which was located across from the concert venue.

In 2019, the FBI concluded its investigation into the deadliest mass shooting in American history without identifying an explicit motive aside from “infamy.”

“It wasn’t about MGM, Mandalay Bay or a specific casino or venue,” Special Agent Aaron Rouse, who directed the agency’s Las Vegas office, told The Associated Press. “It was all about doing the maximum amount of damage and him obtaining some form of infamy.”

1) January 6th pipe bomb (most likely government involvement).

2) Ray Epps

3) Las Vegas shooting. As an owner of fully automatic weapons, I don’t believe all of that was done with bumpstocks. Also, what’s with the guy who was shot in the hotel, fled to Mexico and came back? https://t.co/v54Nwc3ibp

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) February 24, 2025

ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack, but the FBI said it discovered no relation to an “international terrorist group,” CNN reported.

In 2023, the Las Vegas Review-Journal obtained handwritten letters sent to Paddock from an ex-convict, Jim Nixon.

Nixon urged Paddock not to “shoot or kill innocent people,” according to the letters. He told the Review-Journal that he never reached out to authorities regarding his concerns. He also said law enforcement never reached out to him following the shooting.

Paddock had used private communications devices and methodically planned out the attack, FBI search warrants obtained by the New York Times revealed. FBI agents also found three cellphones in his hotel room.

In the Las Vegas police’s preliminary report, the department said it acquired 21,560 hours of video and 251,099 photo images.

A law enforcement expert told the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF) in 2018 there was a disturbing lack of photographic evidence linked to Paddock’s movements in the hotel. (RELATED: Trump Taps Dan Bongino For FBI Deputy Director)

The Jeffrey Epstein Files

Perhaps one of the greatest stains on the FBI’s history is how long it took for the bureau to arrest convicted sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein. He was not arrested until 2019, and his ex-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell wasn’t arrested until July 2020.

The FBI was aware of allegations against Epstein and Maxwell potentially as early as 1996, according to an Epstein accuser.

Documents obtained by the Times reveal the FBI interviewed two alleged victims in 2006 who accused Maxwell and Epstein of sexually abusing them.

Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn said Kash Patel would work with her to “release the Epstein files.”

“I have repeatedly requested a subpoena for the Epstein flight logs from the FBI,” Sen. Blackburn tweeted in February.

I have repeatedly requested a subpoena for the Epstein flight logs from the FBI.

As FBI Director, Kash Patel will work with me to release the Epstein files. pic.twitter.com/D4UyC4O9Rb

— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) February 6, 2025

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform announced in February it was forming a task force to seek government records on multiple topics, including Epstein’s client list.

The House Oversight Task Force on the Declassification of Government Secrets will also push for the release of documents pertaining to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.

The origins of COVID-19, the 9/11 attacks and unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) are other topics of interest to the task force.