Shauni Kerkhoff – Capitol Police officer, alleged J6 pipe bomber, and current employee at US intel. On January 5, 2021, a suspect planted pipe bombs near the Washington, D.C., RNC and DNC headquarters the night before the January 6, 2021, protests. The culprit was caught on video but never ...

1 month ago - Yesterday, Shauni Kerkhoff, who ... by anger over his arrest for activity in the J6 event where Ms. Kerkhoff was present providing security. According to the lawsuit, Steve Baker and The Blaze created a conspiracy theory using ...

1 month ago - She had made it a habit to be professional and upbeat, having chosen law enforcement because she believed she could be helpful to the community. At 31 years old, her enthusiasm for her career had already been tested, and in an unimaginable way.

1 month ago - Kerkhoff later left the Capitol Police and went to work for the CIA. The agency, she indicated in the lawsuit, placed her on leave during the FBI’s probe but recalled her after the bureau cleared Kerkhoff as a suspect.

6 pipe bomber. This was all a coverup. She now works for the CIA. SHARE THIS EVERYWHERE, and remember Trumps “new FBI” has been helping the Dems cover it up! Great job Ed… https://t.co/DBwVHYuzWe pic.twitter.com/D1vjE7aOUR ... SGT Report is the corporate propaganda antidote.

December 5, 2025 - Joe Hoft reported on the J6 pipe bomber on Friday after the word spread on the internet that it was allegedly a Capitol Police Officer who planted the bombs at the DNC and RNC on January 6. Two years after January 6, the FBI under the direction ...

1 month ago - Kerkhoff later left the Capitol Police and went to work for the CIA. The agency, she indicated in the lawsuit, placed her on leave during the FBI’s probe but recalled her after the bureau cleared Kerkhoff as a suspect.

1 month ago - At 31 years old, her enthusiasm for her career had already been tested, and in an unimaginable way. Her first job in the Washington area was as a Capitol police officer, and she had faced off against the mob of rioters on January 6th, 2021.

November 8, 2025 - If I understand correctly, Shauni Rae Kerkhoff worked under Yogananda Pittman even before J6 while Pittman was the Assistant Chief of Protective and Intelligence Operations for the US Capitol Police.

1 month ago - Former Capitol Police Officer Shauni Kerkhoff filed a defamation lawsuit on Tuesday against Blaze Media, former employees Steve Baker and Joseph Hanneman, and Baker and Hanneman's new online publication, Veritas Regnat, for their reporting on ...

April 21, 2026 - Instead, the nation’s foremost law enforcement agency allegedly acted on the information the Blaze had gathered and sent bomb-sniffing dogs, agents in tactical gear, and even a helicopter to that former Capitol Police officer’s home. It was dramatic, terrifying, and wildly unnecessary. That’s according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday by the former officer, Shauni Kerkhoff—who had defended Congress from the January 6th rioters and later testified in court against some of them. Kerkhoff’s lawsuit provides startling new allegations about the government’s frantic and largely futile efforts to try to close a case that had generated a wave of wild speculation on the right and befuddled the leadership of the FBI under Director Kash Patel. It also underscores the degree to which conspiracy theories have influenced official government action, even at the highest levels.

December 11, 2025 - The sources reportedly told the outlet that Kerkhoff's main job there was to serve on the dignitary protection teams for officials. Former FBI Special Agent Kyle Seraphin told The Blaze, "The FBI put us one door away from the pipe bomber within ...

1 month ago - 6 rioter and self-proclaimed investigative reporter who baselessly claimed that Kerkhoff planted pipe bombs at the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee buildings in Washington, D.C., on the eve of the insurrection.

March 2, 2022 - Prosecutors’ first trial witness was Shauni Kerkhoff, who was one of the Capitol police officers who tried to repel Reffitt. She launched pepperballs that didn’t stop him from advancing.

April 21, 2026 - Former Capitol Police Officer Shauni Kerkhoff is suing Blaze Media and former reporter Steve Baker over their coverage of the Jan. 6, 2021, incident at the U.S. Capitol, asserting that the outlet falsely depicted the event as an "inside job" and labeled her as the Jan. 6 pipe bomber. Authorities have arrested and charged Brian Cole Jr. with placing the pipe bombs outside the Democratic and Republican National Committee headquarters buildings. The suit takes aim at a Nov. 8, 2025 article from the outlet, entitled "Former Capitol Police officer a forensic match for Jan. 6 pipe bomber, sources say." The article identified Kerkhoff and featured her image. ... "To Defendants, it did not matter that the claim was nonsensical," the suit alleges. "And it did not matter that they lacked a shred of evidence. They simply made it up." The suit further alleges that the coverage led to her being placed on administrative leave from her job at the CIA and stated that FBI agents searched her Alexandria

April 2, 2026 - In November of 2025, a former U.S. Capitol Police officer, who now works for the Central Intelligence Agency, was identified as the alleged pipe-bomber by The Blaze’s Steve Baker.

Former Capitol Police Officer Shauni Rae Kerkhoff is a 96% forensic match to the Jan. 6 pipe bomber. Two pipe bombs were planted to distract police at a crucial time on Jan 6th. Here is the best part. Afterwards they gave her a job at the CIA.