FBI agents were told to 'flag' any Epstein records that mentioned Trump, Sen. Durbin says

[highplainsdem]

Source: CNBC

FBI agents assigned earlier this year to review investigative files in the criminal case against notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were instructed to “flag” any documents that mentioned President Donald Trump, Sen. Richard Durbin said Friday.

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“According to information my office received, the FBI was pressured to put approximately 1,000 personnel in its Information Management Division (IMD) … on 24-hour shifts to review approximately 100,000 Epstein-related records in order to produce more documents that could then be released on an arbitrarily short deadline,” Durbin wrote to Patel.

“This effort, which reportedly took place from March 14 through the end of March, was haphazardly supplemented by hundreds of FBI New York Field Office personnel, many of whom lacked the expertise to identify statutorily-protected information regarding child victims and child witnesses or properly handle FOIA requests,” the letter said.

“My office was told that these personnel were instructed to ‘flag’ any records in which President Trump was mentioned.”

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Durbin sent letters to both Bondi and Patel about discrepancies between the handling of the Epstein files and the reported findings. The order to FBI agents was brought up in the letter to Patel.

[mwmisses4289]

1. Very Interesting!🤔🧐😯

[FredGarvin]

2. And?

Mentioning things is different from actually doing something about it.

[Scrivener7]

3. And that means, unless someone kept copies of files and videos, we'll never see anything related to Taco.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. I'm confident that someone kept copies and files.

The worse Trump gets in his denials and cover-up, the more we're going to see them trickle out.

[Scrivener7]

8. I hope so. I have been wondering if he knows it and that's why he's so rattled.

Maybe Musk.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. LOL! That's the funny part. I never expected it to come from his old associates.

[Scrivener7]

10. There's a new OP up about how Nick Fuentes said about Taco, "The Liberals were right."

I can't keep up.

[underpants]

4. It looks like a coverup

[Deminpenn]

14. It sure does!

[Girard442]

5. Sounds like panic to me.

[Blue Owl]

6. Dammit shoulda bought that flag stock a few weeks ago

[Jilly_in_VA]

11. Big ol' fat coverup

worse than Watergate. Much worse.

[Bayard]

12. Publicize, publicize, publicize

All over the place. 24 hours a day. This will be the biggest editing job in history.

[twodogsbarking]

15. So there are no files. They were all flagged. That I could buy.

[Strelnikov_]

16. That's what I'm thinking

There was not much left after the screening.

[Kid Berwyn]

17. That way only the scrubbed clean will get released.

Clean clean.

[TBF]

18. Yes, flag & redact -

that I can believe (after years of working in legal support).

Often, you're told to flag just to make things like witness notebooks. Sometimes you're redacting irrelevant info.

But I can see Bondi redacting every time Trump's name comes up and releasing it that way if instructed to.

[Scott Alan Swaggerty]

19. Interesting...