Posted on 06/03/2025 7:31:22 AM PDT by bitt
Did FBI headquarters bury Hunter Biden laptop in “Prohibited Access” black hole?
The United States attorney screening evidence related to Ukrainian corruption in the lead-up to the 2020 election did not know the FBI’s Sentinel case management system had a stealth feature to render files invisible during search queries. Nor did anyone from FBI headquarters reference the existence of such “Prohibited Access” files during discussions over access to relevant material related to Burisma and Hunter Biden. These new facts add to the growing scandal surrounding last week’s revelation that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team placed documents related to the Russia collusion hoax in “Prohibited Access” subfiles, preventing other FBI agents from discovering their existence.
On Wednesday, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, released a 43-page “Electronic Communication,” or EC, drafted by an FBI agent out of the Washington Field Office. That lengthy memo, dated September 18, 2019, detailed the agent’s need for access to material within the control of the remnants of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office for purposes of the Washington Field Office’s investigation into whether Nellie Ohr had lied in her congressional testimony.
While the EC catalogued the extensive evidence against Nellie Ohr, seeking to convince the post-Mueller special counsel’s office to release the additional potentially relevant evidence, the introductory discussion of the FBI’s Sentinel case management exposed two earthshattering details:
First, the EC explained the FBI’s Sentinel case management system allows investigative material to be coded “Prohibited Access,” which renders the files not merely inaccessible to other agents — but invisible to them. And second, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team designated the Trump/Russia-collusion investigations “Prohibited Access” in Sentinel, meaning any agents running keyword search in Sentinel would wrongly believe there were no responsive documents.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
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There could be a lot of cases that now have to be retried.
looks like we have the best government money can buy.....
The dirty dogs! This has got to be unconstitutional!
“These new facts add to the growing scandal...”
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The problem is that the endless stream of DC scandals never results in any consequences. This will be no exception.
This makes the SOL inoperative. Deliberately concealing evidence does that.
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Time to look for another attorney. Either he’s lying or he’s enormously empty-headed. Both options being unworkable.
Investigatorial misconduct...Toll the SOL.
We’ll, that was the point!
Scott Brady, the US Attorney tasked with Biden investigation, was kept in the dark about secret files. Brady was assigned the job by William Barr. Were secret files also hidden from Barr? Is Barr angry about that?
I never heard of special access compartmented need to know documents.
They must be secret or something.
Lol.
It sounds like the FBI needs it's own DOGE investigation to see whatever other files are mysteriously placed in "Prohibited Access".
Someone had to place them in there and should be held accountble.
I miss integrity.
So the U.S. Attorney never heard of J. Edgar Hoover’s “do not file” and “official and confidential” filing systems?
The FBI is a fully subordinate bureau of the DOJ. DOJ is not supervising their subordinate and the subordinate is hiding things from it’s overseers.
Who thinks the NSA doesn’t have access to this?
Wow! This scandal may get so big that the Republicans have to write another sternly worded letter!!!
What is SOL? I guess I am not ITKG.
We have a ‘deep state’ creating ‘deep documents’. This is entirely sidestepping oversight.
Whomever ordered this ‘feature’ -> prison
Whomever enabled this ‘feature’ -> prison
Whomever utilized this ‘feature’ -> prison
This is systematically withholding evidence, actively subverting transparency, and undermining any oversight - literally enabling a shadow government.
I’ve wondered about these types of games, easy to enable once everything goes digital. It’s harder to do when physical copies are made and stored.
If prison is not the result, you’re just asking for government to behave this way. WE THE PEOPLE demand that there be consequences to those we give authority to. This isn’t a small issue, a criminal violation against WE THE PEOPLE.
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