Those of us grossly disappointed in Kash Patel's performance as FBI director, despite our high hopes at his appointment, now have an objective test case by which he might be judged fairly.

It seems that dogged citizen sleuths were able to do what vaunted FBI investigators had been unable - or unwilling - to do after nearly five years of work and millions of dollars spent: Identify the elusive individual who planted the pipe bombs outside RNC and DNC headquarters on January 6, 2021.

Many of us on the right supporting the President’s agenda, me included, had suspected from the jump that the pipe bomb suspect was a government operative. And that his or her goal was to create a distraction on January 6 that would divert police attention during the giant Deep State influence operation that was the January 6 "insurrection." Alternatively, the purpose of the Deep State plotters, we surmised, may have been to detonate the bombs and subsequently blame it on “right-wing MAGA” types, if the Deep State’s Capitol insurrection didn’t go quite as planned.

After more than four years, the FBI hadn’t identified the suspect who planted the bombs, despite ample video footage of the perpetrator in the most heavily surveilled city in the world, with cameras hanging from practically every building and lamppost. This, even though the suspect apparently used a cell phone during their bomb-planting operation, and the US intelligence services have the most robust ability to track and identify any electronic device in the world. And despite the fact that the FBI managed to locate, round up and charge over a thousand patriotic Americans, including

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