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During the Biden administration, the FBI recorded a conversation Susie Wiles had with her lawyer — 8 Comments

1. One of the people I met on the Cruise, an Atty from Idaho, went off on me about Trump’s abuse of the Constitution. Bet anything, she would approve of what Biden’s FBI did.

2. Alan Dershowitz, Bari Weiss, Matt Taibbi, Jonathan Turley, Glenn Greenwald, and Krysten Sinema are among those not identified as Republicans who will find this objectionable. The list doesn’t get any longer than that.

3. Law? What’s a law? There are some words on paper that sometimes mean something but how and when they are applied depends very much on who and where one may be.

   As far as the atty from Idaho, I’d bet she was from Boise city … which by population of the so-called political refugees from the far left coast that now reside there is going to end up turning the state blue. I favor an Electoral College system at county level; 2 largely populated urban counties (Ada, Canyon) shouldn’t control the other 42 mostly rural counties.

4. These people do not think they are above the law, they think they are the law.

5. This literally “unwarranted” surveillance is no doubt part of the documents retrieved by Matt Taibbi and published at Racket in a several part series on the totally unbounded and out of hand use by the FBI of “assessments” – essentially fishing expeditions with no warrants, no subpoenas, no probable cause of criminal activity, zilch except “we wanted to look” as a pretend justification.

   Matt is breathing fire, as he was among the targets.
   And Art Deco’s list is too long.
   Although some assessments dated from 2018-2020, don’t kid yourself that Trump was in control of the Bureau in that time frame.

   https://www.racket.news/p/exclusive-fbi-gathered-intel-on-1000
   EXCLUSIVE: FBI Gathered Intel On 1,000 Journalists, Politicians, Religious Organizations On Flimsy Grounds
   ‘The FBI can gather a dossier on anyone they choose’
   Ryan Lovelace Feb 12, 2026? Paid

   https://www.racket.news/p/exclusive-fbi-probed-actions-of-trumps
   EXCLUSIVE: FBI Probed Actions Of Trump’s Legal Team While He Was Still In Office
   G-men scrutinized an ‘election matter’ 16 months before Arctic Frost
   Ryan Lovelace Feb 20, 2026 ? Paid

   https://www.racket.news/p/gone-fishin-how-the-fbi-can-spend
   Gone Fishin’: How The FBI Can Spend Years Trying To Hook You
   Plus: What happens to your FBI permanent record?
   Ryan Lovelace Feb 27, 2026? Paid

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7. Update: Taibbi is now going after reports of the hidden FBI case files with “Privileged” status – literally made invisible to term-searches and FOIA requests, or even legitimate attempts to search relevant cases for some other investigation, if you were not one of the very few people privy to their existence.
   Those people did NOT include presidents and Congressional overseers.

   Senator Grassley is not amused.

   racket.news/p/exclusive-the-fbis-secret-stash-finally

   A Federal Bureau of Investigation task force has begun excavating the separate set of books FBI keeps using an inaccessible “prohibited access” file designation, according to multiple government sources. Though an internal fight over how to handle the files continues, embattled FBI Director Kash Patel has assigned personnel to examine decades of hidden history, Racket News has learned, with some files already turned over to Congress.

   “This is it — the deep state,” one of the sources said.

   Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley, whose work with whistleblowers and pressure across years was key to prying prohibited access files loose, expressed cautious optimism.

   “If it weren’t for whistleblower disclosures to my office, the very existence of the FBI using ‘Prohibited Access’ files for some investigations would have remained in the dark,” he said. “I’ve asked Attorney General Bondi and Director Patel to turn over certain Prohibited Access records to Congress. I’ve received some, but am still waiting on others. I urge the DOJ and FBI to keep digging – which previous administrations apparently didn’t make any effort to do – so that the facts can come to light. The FBI’s secret stash of records is scandalous.”

   Files given a prohibited access designation are not merely secret. They are “ghosts” which “do not exist,” records rigged to return false negatives when searched for in the FBI’s SENTINEL system. They’re digital descendants of paper records that as far back as Richard Nixon’s presidency were kept in locked offices, accessible to just a few officials, typically at the deputy director level and above. Currently, the number of people with the ability to access the files can be counted on one hand.

   The implications of the nation’s chief federal law enforcement and counter-intelligence organization having kept a separate, non-searchable filing system are mind-boggling.

   “It’s not like turning over a rock and finding a few bugs,” said retired FBI Supervisory Analyst George Hill. “It’s like turning over a manhole and finding a whole city.”

   “You don’t run a Constitutional republic on secret files,” added legal analyst Margot Cleveland.

   A current government source said the prohibited access designation is “literally designed to hide files from Congress and from the FBI itself. It’s really frigging bad.”

   Off-books surveillance and “disruption” of political figures in the Arctic Frost and Trump-Russia investigations comprise part of the find, but the files extend at least as far back as 1999, across Democratic and Republican Party presidencies, involving as many as a thousand distinct case numbers. There are no rules for passing access to the system from one administration to the next. Instead, operation of prohibited access files is described as an oral tradition passed down among senior FBI officials, independent of agents below and political appointees above in Congress and even the White House.

   Here’s how the files came to light:

   RTWT if you have access to Racket.

   https://www.racket.news/p/kashs-cache-locating-the-fbis-secret

   Time and again, oversight of the FBI’s handling of sensitive cases hits a roadblock when investigators search for closely guarded files.

   Records that should exist — about misconduct and spying on federal lawmakers — do not seem to be on file anywhere, nor is there an indication they were destroyed.

   This is by design. The bureau developed its own system for handling its most explosive cases and has reserved the right to prohibit access to anyone, including Congress, which is charged with oversight of the bureau, and FBI agents themselves.

   Racket News has obtained a 2023 user guide to a top-secret database for extremely sensitive info that cannot be held in the bureau’s normal filing system because of its classification requirements. So-called “prohibited access” files can be found in this database called “Sentinel Gold,” per the guide.

   Fbi Sentinel User Guide
   2.81MB ? PDF file
   Download
   The database is an upgrade to Sentinel, the FBI’s case management system. Agents uploading data and documents to the Sentinel system apply one of three levels of access to the info, either unrestricted, restricted, or prohibited, according to a 2021 Department of Justice Inspector General report.

   Information labeled “prohibited” will only appear in searches of FBI files for those who are granted special privileges. The members of this secret society can be counted on one hand, Racket’s Matt Taibbi reported earlier today.

   The FBI did not reply to request for comment.

   FBI Director Kash Patel vowed in a September 2025 hearing to change who can access the files and to hand over documents to Congress.

   Hidden details on FBI misconduct are in the secret files. The inspector general said in his 2021 report the FBI purposefully programmed Sentinel to automatically shuffle misconduct cases into the prohibited access pile.

   Misconduct can include falsifying documents, ethics violations, misuse of government property, “unwelcome sexual conduct,” and “various felonies and misdemeanors, including assault, drug offenses, driving while intoxicated, fraud or theft, and indecent or lascivious acts,” according to the watchdog report.

   Like the 13th floor missing on an elevator’s index, the report said all misconduct cases start with the same number in the bureau’s filing system and are hidden in Sentinel’s prohibited access files.

   Sentinel came online in 2012 as the bureau struggled to rebuild after the “most damaging spy” in its history (that it knows about) used the FBI’s filing system to his advantage.

   Robert Hanssen, dubbed “America’s first cyber spy” by famed FBI spyhunter Eric O’Neill, was arrested in 2001 after a 25-year career at the bureau in which he sold secrets to the Russians for more than $1.4 million.

   After a failed attempt by Hanssen to reestablish contact with the Russian government in 1993, Moscow rebuffed him and alerted the FBI who then opened a case, according to a 2002 report by former FBI Director William Webster.

   Hanssen had closely followed the case on the FBI’s investigative database, the Automated Case Support system, while looking to avoid detection, per Webster’s report.

   The Automated Case Support system was set to be replaced by a Virtual Case File system, which failed amid bureaucratic delays, and ultimately led to Sentinel.

   … and more.

8. AesopFan:

   Indeed, who will watch the watchers? How the FBI had fallen, to become and independent malevolent tool of the Democrats/leftists. Downhill since before Nixon.

   ,Kash Patel has an enormous task.

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