The FBI's Secret Stash Finally Uncovered

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The FBI's Secret Stash Finally Uncovered​

For a generation, the FBI has kept a second set of books called 'prohibited access' files. After a long fight, they're finally being examined.​

EXCLUSIVE: The FBI's Secret Stash Finally Uncovered

For a generation, the FBI has kept a second set of books called 'prohibited access' files. After a long fight, they're finally being examined.

www.racket.news

6 Mar 2026 ~~ Ny Matt Taibbi

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.”
~Snip~
“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.


Commentary:
The article states that the files don't show up in the FBI's Sentinel system, which is supposed to make every case available to FBI agents, and it was not easy finding all of them. Supposedly they now have all of them. They came to light because of Sen. Grassley working with FBI whistleblowers.
The files may get exposed but there will never be any accountability for anyone who knowingly used them.
People need to be arrested for things like this. They are circumventing the legal requirements for document retention and disclosure. This is deliberate, active deception. It really is the “deep state.” And it goes on in a lot of departments. Trump has made some efforts to address this but, with due respect, they aren’t enough. His administration needs to get a lot more serious about rooting this out. Holding hearings. Firing people. And putting systems in place so it doesn’t happen again (or at least so it doesn’t happen for a long time). This is how the bureaucracy takes over from elected officials.
Congress funds the FBI. FBI runs deep state extortion racket on congress.
There's just no accountability in this country, no matter what the politicians promise.

 

[1srelluc]

Hell, who even knows what was on all those index cards J. Edgar kept on people. Hover had 10 million people "indexed" by 1939 and it only grew after that.

Have fun storming that castle boys.

 

[Crepitus]

The FBI's Secret Stash Finally Uncovered​

For a generation, the FBI has kept a second set of books called 'prohibited access' files. After a long fight, they're finally being examined.​

EXCLUSIVE: The FBI's Secret Stash Finally Uncovered

For a generation, the FBI has kept a second set of books called 'prohibited access' files. After a long fight, they're finally being examined.

www.racket.news

6 Mar 2026 ~~ Ny Matt Taibbi

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.”
~Snip~
“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.


Commentary:
The article states that the files don't show up in the FBI's Sentinel system, which is supposed to make every case available to FBI agents, and it was not easy finding all of them. Supposedly they now have all of them. They came to light because of Sen. Grassley working with FBI whistleblowers.
The files may get exposed but there will never be any accountability for anyone who knowingly used them.
People need to be arrested for things like this. They are circumventing the legal requirements for document retention and disclosure. This is deliberate, active deception. It really is the “deep state.” And it goes on in a lot of departments. Trump has made some efforts to address this but, with due respect, they aren’t enough. His administration needs to get a lot more serious about rooting this out. Holding hearings. Firing people. And putting systems in place so it doesn’t happen again (or at least so it doesn’t happen for a long time). This is how the bureaucracy takes over from elected officials.
Congress funds the FBI. FBI runs deep state extortion racket on congress.
There's just no accountability in this country, no matter what the politicians promise.

They better be good, they have had a year to write the damn things.