Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney oversaw deletions while shielding the pipe bomber who carried no Trump supporter record.
July 14, 2026 posts on X revived the core facts about the January 6 Select Committee. Bennie Thompson led the panel. Liz Cheney shaped its public face. The committee oversaw the destruction of evidence and the deletion of tens of thousands of hours of video from Capitol cameras. It also extended cover to the pipe bomber who struck both party headquarters the evening before and who carried no record as a Trump supporter.
The record shows the committee operated as an arm of the prior administration’s lawfare machine. It did not release all footage. It did not pursue every lead. It built cases that sent J6 defendants into federal prisons for years while the bomber’s identity stayed shielded from the same aggressive tactics applied to Trump supporters.
This is war by committee. The establishment used the panel to define the enemy, control the evidence, and write the history. Proud Boys members and other patriots absorbed the heaviest blows. Seditious conspiracy charges landed on men who never entered the Capitol in some cases. The committee’s edited presentation made those charges possible.
The pendulum is swinging back. With the executive branch back in the hands of the movement that was targeted, the old guard’s files are under new examination. The auto-pen pardons issued to committee figures and their allies now look less like routine clemency and more like self-preservation by a machine that knew its methods would not survive sunlight.
Specific numbers tell the story. Tens of thousands of hours gone. Multiple J6 defendants held in solitary for extended periods. One pipe bomber who never fit the profile the committee sold to the public. The contrast is not subtle. One side received the full weight of federal power. The other side received protection and later a mechanical pardon.
The chess match moves to the next phase. The establishment thought the deletions would hold forever. It thought the bomber could remain an unsolved prop in the story. It thought the pardons would close the book. Those assumptions are breaking.
They came for the patriots. The patriots came back. The same institutions that once moved in lockstep now face divided loyalties and new oversight. The ledger grows longer with each resurfaced fact about what the committee destroyed and whom it protected.
The outlook is accountability without exceptions. The next move is the systematic review of every deleted file and every decision that shielded the bomber while hammering the defendants. The establishment is running out of tricks. The patriots are still here.