A top House Republican is asking the FBI for a briefing after a special agent came forward with a disclosure about the bureau’s investigation into a pair of pipe bombs planted planted outside the GOP’s and Democratic Party’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., the night before the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican and ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday saying this “whistleblower disclosure” revealed that the FBI’s Washington Field Office asked FBI field offices last month to canvass all confidential human sources nationwide for relevant information.

The message asked, in part, that the canvass “include sources reporting on all [types of] threats” because the suspect’s “motive and ideology remain unknown,” according to Jordan.

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The special agent, who was not identified, claimed that the request was “unusual” because it came a year after the investigation began, and Jordan said it raises questions about the progress and extent of the inquiry. Both bomb threats were neutralized by authorities, but the identity of the suspect remains one of the biggest mysteries stemming from the events surrounding the Capitol riot.

Jordan also said the FBI has failed to “sufficiently answer questions” posed by Rep. Bill Posey, a Florida Republican, in September regarding the status of the investigation. The bureau explained it was “exclusively providing information to the partisan Democrat-led Select Committee investigating the events of January 6, 2021,” Jordan wrote in the letter.

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Jordan requested the FBI briefing take place no later than March 23. The Washington Examiner reached out to the FBI for comment.

The FBI asked the public for assistance in the investigation and released videos showing the suspect wearing a gray hoodie, a face mask, gloves, and black and light gray Nike Air Max Speed Turf shoes with a yellow logo, carrying a bag and strolling through the Capitol Hill neighborhood on the evening of Jan. 5. A day later, when rioters stormed the Capitol, the process of certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory was disrupted, although there is no publicly confirmed link between those events and the pipe bombs.

The FBI offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to the identification or arrest of the pipe bomb suspect in early January 2021. In the year since, the reward increased to $75,000, then to $100,000.

In recent months, it has emerged that Vice President Kamala Harris was inside the DNC headquarters on Jan. 6 when the pipe bomb nearby was discovered, raising questions about security. She was a U.S. senator and the vice president-elect at the time.

Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, wrote a letter to the Secret Service last month seeking answers about the “potential lapse in security.”

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