A Face for the Crime, No Spine for the Truth

The Jan. 5 pipe bomb arrest shatters conspiracy theories, and exposes the hypocrisy at the heart of the Trump pardon machine.

For nearly five years, the identity of the Jan. 5 pipe bomber sat like a ghost in America’s political attic, a black-hooded specter gliding through low-resolution surveillance footage, forever out of reach, forever feeding the country’s worst conspiracy theorists and its most exhausted investigators. The FBI released enhanced clips, offered bigger rewar…