Steve Baker@SteveBakerUSA
The five most interesting aspects of the coordinated timing of the lawsuit and the @nytimes story on behalf of Shauni Kerkhoff—apart from some of the exact, scripted language used in both—are that the law firm of Clare Locke Patel Ratcliffe & The Gray Lady...
1 - Doubled down on claiming Kerkhoff "has no limp." Call it what you will—other than a limp—but we have demonstrated with video evidence a very distinctive gait in which Kerkhoff favors her right leg. This is exactly the same gait exhibited by the gray-hooded bomber on January 5. Interestingly, the @FBI claims to have 30,000 video files of the bomber but has only ever released a few seconds of blurry, frame-rate-reduced footage that obscures the gait. One would think that if they were serious about the $500,000 reward—specifically noting that someone from the public might recognize "the gait" of the bomber—they would have released much clearer video of that gait. (We have that video and will be showing more of it in the coming days.)
2 - Have now settled into the third iteration of their claim about a timestamped video containing audio of Kerkhoff’s voice—off camera—talking about a sleeping adult greyhound lying on the couch. Yet no one will address the fact that three FBI sources confirmed to @CBSNews the existence of a video of Kerkhoff “playing with her puppies.” How do three FBI sources mistakenly describe an off-camera voice speaking about a sleeping adult dog as “playing with her puppies”? (We, of course, know why they had to scramble to recharacterize that alleged alibi.)
3 - Are not acknowledging that @CIA employees are not allowed to give interviews to the press—about anything, personal or work-related—and that the New York Times piece represents an unprecedented break with longstanding CIA policy.
4 - Are not being honest about the seriousness of Kerkhoff’s failed polygraph and how gravely the intelligence community—especially the CIA—regards that process. (Extensive documentation on federal IC policies and procedures regarding polygraph examinations will follow.)
5 - Refuse to discuss or even reference the biggest related mystery of all: the two adjacent addresses in Falls Church, Virginia, where the FBI deployed its most specialized surveillance team on January 12 and 13, 2021—only to suddenly pull the team after just two days. Behind door number one: the residence of the FBI’s J6 pipe bomb “person of interest” #3 (POI3), who was being visited by POI2 on January 5 and 6. Behind door number two: the residence of Shauni Kerkhoff. For some inexplicable reason, the FBI removed its surveillance team from those addresses six days before POI2 and POI3 were even interviewed or cleared as suspects. Why? Did it have anything to do with who lived behind door number two? Why will the law firm of Clare Locke Patel Ratcliffe & The Gray Lady not address this critical component of the J6 pipe bomber story? WHY?
Now ask yourself this most important question: With 2.4 million individual households in the greater D.C. area, what are the odds that the FBI’s POI2 and POI3 just happened to live next door to the person with a 94-98% gait match to the gray-hooded bomber? Why will no one mention this? I provided this information to the New York Times reporter in great detail. Two FBI whistleblowers who were on that surveillance team have discussed it extensively—including the most recent whistleblower, who is still an active FBI agent. At great personal risk, he has filed a protected disclosure with Congress highlighting the procedural anomalies surrounding that aborted Falls Church surveillance operation. DO THE MATH!
Bonus question for the law firm of Clare Locke Patel Ratcliffe & The Gray Lady:
6 - Since you won’t disclose who is paying for Ms. Kerkhoff’s legal defense—utilizing a firm known for not working on contingency, requiring seven-figure retainers, and charging $1,800 per hour—did @dbongino write the check for this lawsuit, as he specifically told @RepThomasMassie he was going to do?
