The legal term is that it is that the SOL is tolled because of fraud.
Mandates this. Definitely go to the threadreader link for the embedded text docs as images:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1928580853245898772.html
(sorry: I’m not formatting that mess)
🧵🧵🧵Recent release by Sen. @ChuckGrassley suggests systemic violations of Brady by FBI. Brady rule requires government to disclose exculpatory evidence in criminal case; to comply, FBI agents search Sentinel system. Brady mandate is considered a constitutional requirement. 1/
2/ But according to FBI Wash. Field Office EC sent to SC Office on 9/18/19, Sentinel system includes “invisible files” that can’t just not read, but that you don’t even know exist-files identified as “Prohibited Access” files, NOT to be confused w/ Restricted Access files.
3/ Here’s how EC explained “Prohibited Access” files, versus Restricted Access. According to this FBI Agent, then, when you search Sentinel for various terms, if the files are coded “Prohibited Access,” search will show NO responsive documents.
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4/ In contrast, when things are coded “Restricted Access,” a search will show hits but the FBI agent without the proper clearance/authority cannot view the document.
5/ Washington Field Office FBI agent’s EC noted that May 30, 2019 (day after SC Mueller resigned), SC’s office provided FBI agent Bruce Ohr’s redacted FD-302s but asked for unredacted versions which were in “Prohibited Access” holdings.
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6/ EC adds SC Team said most “but not all” documents “had been migrated from Prohibited status to Restricted Access status, . . .” SIGNIFICANTLY, though, “investigators would (and do) remain incapable of identifying potentially relevant serials” in “Prohibited Access” status.
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7/ That paragraph CONFIRMS two different systems, with Restricted Access you can’t view document but you know it exists, while Prohibited Access, you don’t even know there is a document—it is invisible.
8/ This paragraph confirms the point: The Washington Field Office agent can tell there are 70 documents in the Restricted Access system that include the search term “Berkowitz,” but cannot know how many more are in “Prohibited Access” because the Sentinel system will not show any “hits” if the documents are in Prohibited Access.
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9/ So while everyone is focusing on Nellie Ohr, her alleged lies to Congress, and the burying of the case against her—did Post SC Mueller’s office ever provide the documents—the scandal here is MUCH BIGGER!!
10/ FBI’s maintenance of “Prohibited Access” files that DO NOT SHOW UP IN SEARCH REQUESTS in Sentinel means agents pulling Brady material to comply WITH THE CONSTITUTION, will not even know there are potentially exculpatory materials they should be providing.
11/ Then there’s civil cases (think FBI’s role in the Censorship Industrial Complex!!!), FOIA cases, and Congressional Investigations! The files are INVISIBLE and won’t appear in the search.
12/ This isn’t me saying that...it is an FBI agent saying that in an EC sent to the Post Special Counsel’s Office AND THAT EC WAS APPROVED BY THREE SUPERVISORS!
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13/ Was this why Special Counsel Smith didn’t turn over material to Trump in the electors’ case? Because the documents were invisible in a Sentinel search?
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14/ This scandal is no longer about Trump or the corruption of the Russia-collusion hoax investigators—it calls into question the way the FBI handles documents that it is legally and sometimes constitutionally required to turn over, via FOIA, Congressional investigation, Brady,
15/ criminal and civil procedure. Questions for @FBIDirectorKash Does the FBI currently use the “prohibited access” designation to make documents invisible in Sentinel? How does FBI comply with FOIA/Brady/Civil Discovery/Congressional Investigations then?
@FBIDirectorKash 16/16 Did Durham & the IG search for “Prohibited Access” documents? Why note? Did Post Special Counsel Mueller ever provide the Washington Field office the documents related to Nellie Ohr & search Prohibited Access?
@FBIDirectorKash 17/ Here is how the DOJ’s IG describes “Prohibited Access.”
We need more transparency. The government should make an effort to be TOO transparent. Say stuff that perhaps should have been hidden. Make mistakes in THAT direction. Let the people know. In 10 or 20 years maybe we can make a correction and say “We really do need to hide some stuff”. But let us experience a time in which the government doesn’t actually manipulate us through lies and hidden information.
Twitchy members can see comments. Might be helpful to post some of that here
So, if the Fibbies are holding on to exculpatory evidence, how many people have been wrongly convicted of a? How many appeals are going to be brought across the entire federal prison system, alleging a wrongful conviction? Frankly, EVERY single federal conviction in which the FbI was involved SHOULD be overturned.
I wonder if hundreds of cases can now be appealed on the grounds that the FBI has a deliberate practice of refusing to provide exculpatory evidence.
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Democrat scum infected every agency in DC... Trump and Elon (when he comes back) need to weed out those criminals.
Bttt.
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