THIS IS MAYBE THE BIGGEST STORY OF ALL…MUCH BIGGER THAT OPERATION KAKAMAIMIE AND ALL THE OTHER TRUMPIAN STORIES IN THE LAST DOZEN TRUMPIAN YEARS

JEFF CHILDERS HAS THE ANALYSIS BUT IT DEMANDS A SEPERATE GOLDTENT POST

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Independent media is having a moment. Remember Operation Crossfire Hurricane, the RussiaGate illusion Obama and Hillary cooked up that led to the Mar-a-Lago raid? Turns out it was only the beginning. Yesterday, John Solomon’s Just the News broke the story as an exclusive, headlined, “Trump targeted by four FBI code-named counterintel probes that ensnared hundreds of Americans.” Four! Corporate media completely ignored it, but early this morning (Q followers: at 12:57am, in case that means anything), President Trump reposted the story on Truth Social without comment.

Beginning in the summer of 2016, at the precise moment Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination, Obama’s FBI launched a counterintelligence operation against him. They were having such a great time. The first operation was code-named Crossfire Hurricane, named after a Rolling Stones song with the upbeat lyrics ‘it’s a gas, gas, gas.’

The party was just getting started. Crossfire Hurricane was only the opening act.

Over the next four years of the Biden Autopen regime, the FBI ran three more domestic spying operations —using tools meant for terrorists and spies— against Trump and Republicans. They were each called: Round River, Plasmic Echo, and Arctic Frost. The ops ran sequentially, each successive “probe” starting as the prior one concluded, so that the spying continued in a single glorious, uninterrupted arc from the summer of 2016 until the final hour of the Biden administration on January 20, 2025, literally right up to President Trump’s inauguration.

Ten years. A whole decade of constitutional abuse. It wasn’t really four different operations. It was one ten-year operation, code-named “Spy on Republicans.”

Each successive operation swelled in size as the domestic surveillance increased. The final op, Arctic Frost, targeted nearly 400 conservative groups and thousands of Americans, including 1,200 persons specifically identified as being in “protected First Amendment categories” like lawmakers, defense lawyers, filmmakers, and journalists.

The article reported that “officials said the two middle operations, Round River and Plasmic Echo,” which sound like names for Dollar Store scented candles, “are just beginning to be declassified so Congress can be fully read in, and may produce some of the most troubling abuses.” These will be new, never-before-seen scandals.

At least a dozen members of Congress and their staffers were swept up in surveillance. Eight sitting Republican senators were surveilled. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) called it “unconstitutional overreach that makes Watergate look like jaywalking.” Trump’s future White House Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, was targeted. A political consultant’s emails were penetrated via a classified subpoena two weeks after joining the 2024 Trump campaign— the subpoena captured, verbatim, “correspondence on The Trump Campaign’s private strategies and deliberations.”

Since the subpoenas were classified, the targets had no way to challenge them or even know about them. Judges signed off on them, too. (That’s a whole different problem. According to various reports, between 1979 and 2023, the secret FISA court judges denied only 12 FBI applications out of forty-two thousand.)

Kash Patel himself was surveilled (ironically, by the same FBI that he now runs). At least 1,200 Americans specifically identified in constitutionally protected categories were subjected to warrants, wiretaps, phone record analysis, or grand juries. The ugliest part is that the records of the four operations were all stamped “prohibited access” and kept out of FBI computer systems (paper only), and hidden from most rank-and-file FBI agents themselves.

According to the article, Director Patel has assigned a small team of agents to hunt for the files and uncover abuses, assisted by a handful of senior executives who can navigate the bureau’s Byzantine storage systems and unearth well-buried evidence.

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon told John Solomon that criminal charges are “indeed possible” under the Klan Act’s conspiracy against rights charge, which she noted “dates back to the start of the Ku Klux Klan.” The article noted that the FBI has been working with a grand jury in South Florida since last summer.

In 1975, the Church Commission found the CIA’s “Family Jewels”— hidden internal memos describing decades of unconstitutional abuse. That discovery led to the only major intelligence reform in American history: oversight committees, the (useless) FISA court, and a ban on assassinations. “Prohibited Access” is our generation’s Family Jewels scandal— except this time, the hidden files don’t describe what the FBI was doing to foreigners.

They describe what the FBI did to an American president, his allies, his lawyers, four hundred conservative groups, and thousands of his fellow citizens. In 1975, Congress publicly investigated the CIA. In 2020, the FBI began secretly investigating Congress. The party in power —the Democrats— weaponized the justice system against its domestic political opponents. If this story were about Turkey or Brazil, the New York Times would easily identify it as “banana republic tactics.” If it bothered.

This kind of thing is literally the hallmark of authoritarian governance. It is a full-blown constitutional crisis. A lot of books will be written about this.

Matt Taibbi at Racket News broke the ugliest story: Prohibited Access files aren’t just classified. They’re ghosts. When an agent searches for them in Sentinel, the system returns a false negative— it doesn’t say “access denied,” it says the file doesn’t exist. The FBI confirmed this to Congress: “search terms that exist in Prohibited Access-status cases … will receive a false-negative Sentinel search response.”

That’s not a ‘security measure.’ Don’t make me laugh. It’s a cover-up architecture.

Independent journalist Matt Taibbi uncovered that there are no written rules for transferring knowledge of these files between administrations. It’s described as an oral tradition, passed down among senior officials, independent of agents below and political appointees above. An oral tradition! As though it were a family cookie recipe. For files that don’t officially exist.

For nine consecutive years, the FBI treated an elected President of the United States as a national security threat. The operations ran through four administrations — Obama, Trump’s first term, Joe the Cabbage, and into Trump’s second. That means the FBI maintained continuous surveillance of a sitting president during his own presidency. The executive branch was spying on the head of the executive branch. That’s not a rogue operation. That’s a parallel government.

Then someone buried those files in an illegal filing system to ensure nobody could ever find them. It would be funny if it weren’t so offensive. The FBI’s job is to find things, not hide them from itself.

Running off-books operations against Americans is a very strange way of protecting National Security. To say the least.

Calling it the “biggest political scandal in American history” feels inadequate since that phrase has been rendered meaningless by overuse. But for nine consecutive years, through four administrations and four code-named operations, the FBI treated the once and future President of the United States as an enemy of the state. Someone in the bureau stamped those files so nobody could find them. But we found them anyway.

In the end, they failed at failing. Their secret filing system is seeing the light. Four code names, nine years, piles of burn bags, uncounted secret SCIFs, and the only thing they caught was their own gluteus maximus. This cannot possibly stand without a forceful answer. Prepare for the Reckoning.™