The chairman of a House Administration subcommittee questioned Tuesday why Secret Service sweeps did not discover a pipe bomb left under a bench near the Democratic National Committee headquarters ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol building.
Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., showed videos of a Secret Service agent and a bomb-sniffing dog sweeping an area close to the pipe bomb that morning, which Capitol Police eventually discovered around 1:07 p.m. on Jan. 6.
There were two Secret Service K-9 sweeps done prior to a visit to the DNC by then-Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, who came within feet of the device that could have caused serious bodily harm if detonated, Loudermilk said at the Oversight Subcommittee hearing.
