First, approximately 1,000 personnel in the Information Management Division (IMD) and the FBI New York Field Office were assigned to this task, confirming the whistleblower account made to Senator Durbin’s office. I can also confirm that a log exists tracking the mentions of Donald Trump in the files, and that there were approximately 100,000 files containing roughly 300,000 pages. Individual analysts were told to flag mentions of Trump by document and page number by logging them in an Excel spreadsheet, then they’d hand in their spreadsheet at the end of their (sometimes 24 or even 48-hour) shift. But it’s important to note that the agents were not told to flag Trump until later in a process that began mid-March.


But there is a log of instances Donald Trump is mentioned in the files, there are video and PDF trainings instructing analysts to flag Trump, there were multiple instances of Trump appearing in the files, Patel and Bondi wanted victim information and PII, and sloppiness means that more people than previously known had access to the Epstein and Maxwell files. And while there was no indication of a ready-made, A to Z client list beyond the little black book that’s already public, “to say there’s nothing or to say it’s a hoax? Bullshit.”

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    …call the reps, if they push you off, question why?..one of my senators has started blocking my number…

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      oof, a list of times you called re: pedos in gov correlated with their voting record would make a fantastic campaign ad for anyone primarying these fucks.

      “representative fuckhead, I called your office on 1,2,4,5,7,8, 10 july etc., hoping to speak to you about your misguided defence of sex offenders in our government. You refused to speak to me. So I’m gonna vote for (opposition) instead.”

      that’d be unffffff satisfying

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      Treason has a specific legal definition and this is not it. Conspiracy to obstruct justice, evidence tampering, and I’m sure others, but not treason.

      Though one would hope that at least one out of the thousand plus FBI employees involved would be honest and decent enough to leak what Trump and his cronies are trying to hide though.

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        Donald Trump, and no doubt various other political figures, have been fucking children. That information is being used to control them. Let’s just say it’s by Russia, because that’s a fun one. Anybody who helps cover that up is assisting a foreign government. I’m pretty sure that could be argued as treason

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          Unlikely for it to be Russia. I’ve heard it said that Epstein was an intelligence operative, meaning he worked for an American agency or an allied nation, neither of which would make him a Russian asset. Factions exist within the American ruling elite that want Russia to be an ally and factions exist that want war with Russia or to see Russia destroyed/contained. Those factions that want containment support the Ukraine war and those that want friendship have been sidelined.

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      Any person assisting in a coverup should be tried

      for obstruction of justice and aiding a sex offender, sure.

      treason is another thing. we save that for Tangerine Palpatine and his relationship with Darth Putin.

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        Don’t save it. Apply it to them all. We aren’t going to run out of treason charges to hand out. Helping someone commit treason is treason.

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    Regarding the ever-changing nature of the instructions, which one source described as “full panic mode,” there were at least four different review instructions. Keeping in mind that the Record/Information Dissemination Section (RIDS) are trained in FOIA redactions but many in the IMD are not, there were multiple video training sessions that went out on an unclassified network on what to mark for redaction, what not to mark, and how to record things that needed to be flagged. That means that video exists of trainers explaining the process of flagging instances of Donald Trump appearing in the files, and those videos went out on unclassified networks within the bureau. It’s also of note that the trainers toward the end were folks from the Department of Justice, and not the FBI.

    SOP for incompetent fascists

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    Any Trump-related evidence in those files is going to be memory-holed, and the evidence that has already been made public will be written off as “AI generated fake news made up by <insert boogeyman of choice here>”.

    He’s already starting this process by suing WSJ because “he told them the letter was fake”, as if people are just supposed to take his word for that. It’s like a criminal telling a judge “Hey, that gun in evidence isn’t mine!”, and expecting the judge to say “Welp, he says it’s fake. Case dismissed!”