FBI Revisiting Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb, Drugs Found in White House and Dobbs Leak, Says Deputy Director

Three unresolved cases that have puzzled political observers are now receiving renewed attention from the FBI, according to Deputy Director Dan Bongino.

Bongino, who previously served as an NYPD officer and Secret Service agent and is now a conservative commentator, posted on X that he and FBI Director Kash Patel have decided to “either re-open, or push additional resources and investigative attention” to three separate incidents: the discovery of cocaine in the White House during the Biden presidency, the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, and the planting of pipe bombs outside party headquarters the night before the January 6 Capitol riot.

“I receive requested briefings on these cases weekly and we are making progress,” Bongino wrote. “If you have any investigative tips on these matters that may assist us then please contact the FBI.”

A bag of cocaine was found in the West Wing on July 2, 2023, leading to an evacuation of the White House.

The drug was discovered by a Secret Service agent conducting a routine sweep in a small storage cubby in a vestibule just below the Oval Office and near the Situation Room.

At the time, President Joe Biden and his family—including Hunter Biden, who has struggled with drug addiction—were away at Camp David for the Fourth of July weekend.

The Secret Service concluded its investigation after 11 days without identifying who left the substance, citing a lack of physical evidence and no surveillance footage capturing the individual responsible.

Earlier this year, former President Donald Trump speculated that “either Joe or Hunter” may have been behind the incident.

In May 2022, Politico published a leaked draft of Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case, which supported a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks and returned the decision-making power on abortion rights to individual states.

The leak triggered widespread protests, particularly at the homes of conservative justices, and marked a significant breach of the Supreme Court’s traditional secrecy.

Alito’s final opinion mirrored the leaked version, in which he wrote: “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and [Planned Parenthood v.] Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division.”

Chief Justice John Roberts immediately launched an investigation. However, by January 2023, Marshal of the Supreme Court Gail Curley reported that neither she nor the court’s security team had been able to determine the source of the leak.

On the evening of January 5, 2021, an individual carrying a backpack and dressed in a hoodie, mask, gloves, and Nike Air Max sneakers, planted pipe bombs near the Democratic and Republican national committee offices in Washington, D.C.

Though the bombs did not explode, the FBI confirmed that they were “viable” explosive devices.

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris visited the DNC headquarters the next day and had to be evacuated once the bombs were discovered by a passerby.

Despite releasing surveillance footage and asking the public for help, the FBI has yet to identify the person responsible more than four years later.

A House Republican report released in early 2025 stated that initial investigations “yielded a promising array of data and revealed numerous persons of interest” but acknowledged that “little meaningful progress” had been made since then.

The FBI is currently offering a $500,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest and conviction in the case.