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 ...

March 28, 2026 - Shauni Rae Kerkhoff is a former United States Capitol Police officer who was falsely accused by Blaze Media in a November 8, 2025 report of being the suspect who planted pipe bombs outside the Democra

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.

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.

May 26, 2026 - The FBI investigated and even surveilled Shauni Kerkhoff, a former Capitol Police officer who is now with the CIA, over the Jan. 6 pipe bombs in early November. She failed a polygraph about it, according to a new defense filing from accused ...

April 23, 2026 - 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.

April 22, 2026 - 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.

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 ...

November 9, 2025 - She was a Capitol Police officer ... for a “security detail” at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). During a D.C. court hearing, the prosecutions first witness on March 2, 2022 was Kerkhoff. She was working with the Civil Disturbance Unit of the U.S. ...

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 ...

April 21, 2026 - 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.

April 23, 2026 - 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.

December 5, 2025 - 6 pipe bombs was based on sourcing from individuals in a position to know this type of sensitive law enforcement information who have a demonstrated record of reliability and accuracy. Of note, the sources continue to stand by the information they provided to Blaze News. At all times, the reporting adhered to professional journalistic standards and was published with a good-faith belief in its truth. Even so, in light of Thursday’s developments and the FBI’s arrest of another individual, Virginia resident Brian Cole Jr., in connection with the Capitol pipe-bomb incident, we consider the values of fairness and accuracy to require retraction of this article. After publication, Steve Bunnell, whom the Washington Post identified as an attorney for the Capitol Police officer, told the Post his client "categorically denies" that she planted the pipe bombs.

April 25, 2026 - A former police officer who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6 and testified in court is suing an "investigative reporter" and pardon recipient who allegedly "made up" a story that she was the long-elusive Washington, D.C., pipe bomb suspect, and her defamation case may be getting stronger by the day. On Dec. 4, the FBI made a simple but significant announcement: The person who placed pipe bombs outside Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee headquarters is a man. As soon as that detail flashed across cable news chyrons and social media feeds, it meant that Shauni Kerkhoff — a woman serving as a Capitol Police officer at the time of the attack — had apparently been falsely accused based on Steve Baker's "gait analysis" conclusions as published on the conservative Blaze website in November. Sign up for the Law&Crime Daily Newsletter for more breaking news and updates ·

April 22, 2026 - Encouraged by a professor to look ... to the uniformed division of the Secret Service and the Capitol Police. The latter offered her a job, and she moved to Virginia and started at the academy in June 2017. She was assigned to be an officer on the Senate division and, like ...

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 ...

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.

Shauni Kerkhoff is a former Capitol Police Officer and current intelligence operative. Jan 6th was an FBl/ClA-led coup. https://x.com/rontit4tat3/status/1986944492235333693?s=46 ... Take her passport before she runs to Italy. ... Take her passport before she runs to Italy.