PROHIBITED ACCESS
THOSE OF YOU SCREAMING AND HOLLERING FOR KASH AND BONGINO AND BONDI’S SCALPS MAY WANT TO CONSIDER THIS INFORMATION
WHEN THE INFORMATION CHANGES I CHANGE MY BELIEF…WHAT DO YOU DO !
I DO SUSPECT SOME OF YOU ARE INCAPABLE OF CHANGING YOUR BELIEFS…JUST LIKE THE LIBTARDIANS
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This is from Jeff Childers
We are learning much more about why the Epstein disclosures might be taking so long. Yesterday, the Federalist ran an intriguing story headlined, “DOJ Officials Didn’t Know Database Let FBI Bury Russiagate Docs.” Oh, FBI.
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According to the story, the FBI stores its evidence in a central document management system called Sentinel. It’s how anyone finds anything. For example, when special counsel John Durham searched for documents related to Russiagate, he used the Sentinel system. It is the only way to access the FBI’s stored evidence.
But the FBI’s permanent bureaucrats knew something that the political appointees didn’t. Sentinel has several layers of classification. These designations are used to protect classified information, conceal witness identity, and maintain operational security during investigations.
What John Durham and nearly everyone else at the Department of Justice didn’t know was that the FBI had built a top-secret, master-level code into the Sentinel system called “Prohibited Access.” Unlike “Restricted Access,” which shows that documents exist (but are locked down), Prohibited Access entirely hides their existence.
In other words, it returns false negatives in internal FBI searches— agents querying relevant terms would see nothing at all and think there is nothing. The only way to find a “Prohibited Access” document is to know exactly what you’re looking for and run a special search while logged into the specific case where the documents were saved.
According to Federalist sources, no one from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office ever mentioned to Durham that documents relevant to the investigation into surveillance of the Trump campaign were concealed by the “Prohibited Access” designation, even though FBI officials knew the DOJ was investigating the origins and handling of the Crossfire Hurricane case.
Now it becomes easier to understand why Peter Strzok and James Comer were so annoyingly arrogant during their Congressional testimony. They knew a secret. They knew that John Durham would never see the most problematic documents.
(Sounds like a job for DOGE’s engineers. Or maybe it already has been.)
If evidence was willfully concealed using database tools designed to frustrate discovery, it might be criminal. Options include obstruction of justice, fraud on the court, Brady violations (failure to disclose exculpatory evidence), or even civil rights offenses if this was part of a politically motivated prosecution strategy.
There is conceivable justification for some kind of Prohibited Access. One can imagine the need for total secrecy in some key cases, like if the FBI were investigating an FBI agent, or a Chinese spy. But those favorable arguments are blown out of the water by the singular fact that the DOJ didn’t know about it and the FBI didn’t tell them— even during an active investigation.
In a late-breaking story published this morning while I was writing this up, the Federalist reported that the U.S. Attorney tasked with investigating the Biden-Burisma connection confirmed he was not told by FBI about the Prohibited Access codes. He ran keyword searches in the Sentinel system for “Burisma,” “Zlochevsky,” and other related terms, and got nothing.
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The FBI had its own secret invisibility code without any oversight. In other words, the Sentinel system has a built-in auto-redact switch designed to bypass the people in charge, effectively making FBI a rogue agency.
But “Prohibited Access” is now exposed as a key deep-state tool, perhaps one of the most insidious and darkly elegant weapons in the administrative arsenal. It appears legitimate. After all, it doesn’t destroy documents, leak emails, or fabricate evidence. It simply hides reality. Silently, permanently, without fingerprints.
It’s plausible deniability: “But you never asked for Prohibited Access documents.”
CONGRESS: “Why weren’t these turned over?”
FBI: “Your request didn’t include ‘buried under digital cement.’”
This story reanimates Donald Rumsfeld’s folksy term, “unknown unknowns.” The Federalist said not even FBI agents were aware of the Prohibited Access code. So only a cabal of trusted insiders knew, and it appears they weren’t inclined to share, even with their Constitutional bosses.
This is a scandal on par with the worst cases of intelligence abuse in American history.
In 1975, in Watergate’s wake, the Church Commission investigated CIA abuses. Congressional investigators uncovered a series of top-secret internal CIA memos hidden from anyone outside the Agency, even the President. The secret memos described decades of unconstitutional and criminal abuse. They pictured a CIA that was completely off the chain, describing domestic surveillance of journalists and dissidents, illegal wiretaps and mail opening, assassination plots against foreign leaders (like Fidel Castro, Patrice Lumumba, and Rafael Trujillo), drug testing on unwitting Americans (e.g., MK-Ultra), collaboration with the mafia (Castro assassination attempts), and infiltration of domestic political groups.
Inside the Agency, these protected memos were called the CIA’s “Family Jewels,” too dangerous to disclose to outsiders, too damning to destroy. (In other words, they were preserved as blackmail insurance against former CIA members, rogue presidents, or a recalcitrant Congress.)
In 1975, as the Family Jewels sparkled in the daylight, committee chair Frank Church prophetically observed, “If this government ever became a tyranny… the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.”
Indeed. The Family Jewels disclosures led to the only major reform of the intelligence agencies in history. From that scandal, we got Congressional oversight committees, the FISA court, and an executive order prohibiting assassinations. The debacle also led inexorably to the minting of the now-familiar term, “deep state.”
Like CIA’s “Family Jewels,” “Prohibited Access” is no longer a secret and has gone mainstream, even if corporate media is stubbornly ignoring the scandal. If the documents are anywhere in the database, they can be found. Who knows what could be there? Presumably (hopefully) it contains a lot of things that should be protected, like the aforementioned counterintelligence operations.
But how about other politically sensitive issues? How about the Epstein documents? Covid origins? January 6th? Hunter’s laptop?
If the Federalist’s article is to be at all believed, Kash Patel’s team is just now finding out about this. It could amount to nothing, or a few minor reforms. Or this story could ignite a nuclear-grade accelerant for Trump’s broader strategic disclosure doctrine.
Helps to explain how over the decades something that many of us have complained about regarding the FBI. In so many investigations they have covered up and buried evidence. One perfect recent example, Hunter’s laptop. So many others too numerous to list. One could write a series of books of all the cases the FBI investigated and covered up. They prosecute regular citizens and political enemies and all the Dems and some Repubs. got away with murder.
No need to yell. If they do anything I would be surprised. Just like the Ukraine Peace Deal that never was. Talk is cheap. BTW have you that Birx has been appointed to a position on Palantir? Yeah that Birx and that Palantir.
Now we know even more was hidden.
But as CM notes, plenty was already known to be in FBI possession. Like Hunter’s. Like Weiners.
And we’ve seen how FBI was repeatedly “used” in a partisan administration. Just like the gestapo.
Over and over and over.
There is no potential for reform.
As for Patel, instead of taking initial steps in a public way to even examine that question, he opens by professing his support for keeping the agency and proclaiming confidence in its staff.
There is no viable excuse for either one.
NOTHING HAS CHANGED here. Its just more of the same.
Dead on, pedro – it is pollyanish to think that any progress in reform OR arrests of obvious DC criminals is under way or can actually happen. Still waiting for information to change my mind, which I would in a nano-second. Happily. Eagerly. But so far, a giant nothing-burger on all fronts. Package it any way you want, no one has or is going to jail under this regime (other than illegal immigrants, of course.)
And personally speaking I haven’t seen anyone screaming or hollering about Kash & Dan & Blondie – our current Three Stooges. Simply stating fact and wishes. Wishes that someone somewhere in DC would be raided at 2 am and perp walked in their pajamas to the DC solitary confinement cells.
Not too much to ask, and I don’t scream, just question. The only person screaming here is a guy named Fully…
WHEN THE INFORMATION CHANGES I CHANGE MY BELIEF…WHAT DO YOU DO ?
AND THE ANSWERE IS …NOTHING WILL CHANGE MY BELIEFS…NOTHING !
JUST LIKE THE LIBTARDS !
Nancy there he goes again. Best RR I can summon. When they’re in jail we can talk.