“Hoffman Estates” is a Chicago area location containing an abandoned furniture store and warehouse. The Obama Foundation leased, then re-upped the lease, to use the facility to store all the paper documents from the Obama administration {Location Link}.
The Obama administration told the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) they were going to upload the documents into a digital form for use in the Obama library. The paper documents were, still are, held at the Hoffman Estate warehouse while this digitization process took place. It should be noted, the Obama Foundation has never digitized the records, hence they renewed the warehouse lease.
Contrast against the DOJ-NSD legal position about classified records held in the secure facility of Mar-a-Lago, a 2018 letter {Obama.org pdf here} from the Obama Foundation to the NARA is an example of the two-tiered selective justice system. Within the 2018 letter the Obama team admit to storing both “classified and unclassified” documents at the warehouse: [Page #2, bullet-point 7]
Obviously, there were no raids on Hoffman Estates from the FBI to secure the classified documents. Nor did the DOJ National Security Division trigger a criminal investigation of President Obama for holding documents, particularly classified documents, against the interests of the NARA while they “digitized them;” a process, which again should be noted, never even began.
The intent of sharing this information is just to highlight the political dynamic within the NARA, DOJ and FBI as it pertains to selective enforcement of presidential records.
Once again, to hopefully save the time of responding to DC inquiry, all of this information is open-source discovery. It exists in the vast space of the internet and this letter itself is found in the archives of the Obama Foundation itself.
This information does not surface as an outcome of any CTH relationship with any entity who is now, or was ever, part of the Trump administration or the Trump legal team. So, save your insufferable subpoenas.
Readers, researchers and news media can do whatever they want with the information provided. The source citations are provided. Make it your own, or not.
Obama kept no documentation of FBI corruption.
Not in this “Hoffman Estates” warehouse anyways.
Maybe a bit closer to home with a bit more security and anonymity.
Holder has it. Along with all those dvd’s of tax records Lerner gave him.
If he did, I’m sure he would just plead the Fifth.
Or, maybe he did, but it was corruption that was of benefit to himself and to the leftists in D.C. who run just about every agency of the Federal government. Placing it in this furniture warehouse and never getting it back to the National Archives and Records Administration may be the best possible way to bury that which the Obama administration wanted to shield from public scrutiny.
Makes sense. Hence no raid at the warehouse.
Hoky Smokes, how did our Sundance come across this trove of information? What a treasure!
Thank you for the excellent research.
“Howya like them apples”..
BECAUSE we were “sheeple” for so long,…THEY were able to get away with so much for so long, that they now believe they are able to get away with ANYTHING.
They grew dependant on us continueing to sleep, but once WE wake up, and we HAVE, all of their schemes fall apart.
What I’ve been saying, sometimes to deaf ears to my complete frustration. I was guilty of it for years as I worked my ass off to make a living. No more, I’m on it every day.
I worked for the government in DC. My assigment began under Bush-the-Elder. Obama was a different president than any previous president. He lied, he hid, he cheated and he fomented racial strife where non existed.
I was chastised by my fellow bureaucrats when I raised these issues of Obama’s duplicity. Seems I was right all along. Oh well, it seems empty to say “I told you so” now.
Some people are more equal than others, and some of those people are even more equal.
….did I mention an additional layer of black privilege?
You mean ‘false’ black privilege.
First rate research Sundance. This should bolster the case for President Trump and his documents, if I am not mistaken.
Legal representation can be expensive so I will continue to donate to CTH. If they persist in pursuing you with subpoenas, we could see about setting up a Give Send Go fund for CTH legal defense . What do you treepers think?
I am with you lindak. This has to get to DT’s legal team. At least posted on Gab and TruthSocial.
My guess is him & his attorneys already have this information. As Sundance noted, it’s open source via archives of Obama Foundation on the web.
I’m in!
Ok! I’ll look into it. Legal fees are unbelievably expensive and I doubt you can appear before these creatures without a lawyer.
Every single bureaucratic institution needs to be purged of these Marxists scum. The upper echelon of these institutions need to be perp walked to the gallows
WOW.
I understood that this facility was leased to NARA and they moved government employees in there. There was a Chicago newspaper that highlighted this back in October 2016, but I can’t seem to find it since the Tribune and other Chicago media outlets are behind the paywall.
Hoffman Estates board extended oh’s storage for four more years.
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20220803/hoffman-estates-allows-obama-library-archives-to-stay-for-four-more-years
Like I said, behind the paywall. The headline tells you nothing about who is in the building, i.e., employees of whom?
2550 W. Golf Road, Hoffman Estates, IL 60169
Across the street from a JP Morgan Chase Bank
There are always cars parked in the parking lot.
Drove by it many times in the BLUE STATE UGH !
It’s different when “Bathhouse Barry” does it.
Still waiting to digitized them; Obobo never did what he said he would, and FJB is worse and comped to the high hell, and attacking everyone.
When you get this quick of a reaction, this tells you you are over the target.
“As the Chief of Joint Team Records, she has coordinated with soldiers, sailors, and commercial contractors to transport an immense amount of freight the 700 miles from Washington D.C. to Illinois. Lt. Colonel Vargas said the planning for the operation started in November 2015.”
An immense amount of freight? At this scale, what sort of records was Obama generating? Just a hypothesis: correspondence with other government agencies? (perhaps at the city/county level: that would be one way to generate an immense amount of freight..) Any other ideas? And why would Obama desire to keep hard copies of these records?
How much “presidential records freight” did Trump take? We know of something like 10 filing boxes that were confiscated. Based on the filings we’ve seen, the implication seems to be that all (or most) of his retained presidential records were confiscated. This is a large disparity between the two administrations…
Maybe the FBI needs to conduct a raid to make sure there are no classified that found there way to Chicago. What’s good for the goose. . . .
How bout a military lock down of the building🤣
Rot-ROHHH! I think you triggered someone, Sundance. (Fist bump from this ol’ girl!)
Havnt confirmed yet but rumor is the documents began transporting in 2016, prior to nara assuming possession.
MY stars, it’s out there, if we only had enough shovels and whistleblowers
The doj nor the fblie would ever consider investigating one of their own criminal frauds.
& The Soap Oprea Continues!!
Notice that letter of agreement was dated almost two years after Obama left office.
Mike Davis was right. This is normal negotiation between presidents and Nara.
Trump also gave Nara access at Mar a Lago. Which is more secure than a warehouse.
What’s frightening is how many buildings have had fires and/ explosions.
They didn’t even ask Obama to put a second lock on the door?
(Sarcasm intended)
I would wager that anyone who has worked in the US intelligence community at the SES or political appointee level is highly likely to have classified info (or stuff that has been declassified but has classification markings on it) in their home.
Heh! All the technical manuals I used to fix doppler radar systems for bombers and tankers back in the late 70s were classified. Every piece of paper work was considered classified, even if it wasn’t marked as such. The government loves to classify everything, so you know nothing about what they have, what was said, what was used, on and on.
it’s what big government does.
Reminds me of something I forgot. My late husband was in special forces during Vietnam Nam, with some sort of security clearance. I did not know him at that time. Years after we married after going through boxes for a move ,I came across 3 large boxes of manuals, schematics etc, for electronics. He was a pack rat. Never threw anything away. They were marked classified of some sort. He laughed and said, that stuffs obsolete. Off to the dump they went. Even in 1999 I didn’t want them around. And NO he wasn’t a spy. Harmless hoarder.
hsheheh. Yes, I used to have my old training manuals from tech school. Finally threw them out after dragging them around for some 20 odd years. 😀
GAVE mine to The sons and Said ” pass them to the Museum ” SINCE my ” A ” School Books Contain the Transition from Tube Theory to ” Solid State ” ( discreet components ) and ” C ” school books into Chips.
WW2 Tech to the 1990’s technology – Left the Industry after we started using Laser Ring Gyros and Fiber Optics.
” Someday EVERY Home will have a Computer in IT ”
was the opening line of a Book in the 1986 E-6 course that WASN’T UPDATED when i RETIRED in 2000…
GOVT IS SLOW in UPDATING THEIR PAPERWORK, But Good at ADDING MORE.
KNEW i LIKE YOU for A REASON – FELLOW ” Tweet ” ( Tweaker for You Probably )
Sadly, NARA has corrupt players & is in on the “gotcha”, a cruel game played for keeps orchestrated against our President Trump . The moves of the NARA has infuriated Devin Nunes!
The whole Federal bureaucracy in DC is corrupt including NARA and they’re all out to get President Trump!!! They’re all taking orders from the deep state and Lawfare!!!
I was able to find this March 2019 article which seems to indicate that the NARA didn’t lease this building with their employees as I previously thought. https://www.wbez.org/stories/whats-that-building-why-this-hoffman-estates-warehouse-stores-barack-obamas-presidential-papers/403ad644-8934-4ee6-85d9-97812af484e6
The concluding paragraphs seem to indicate that:
“The documents won’t stay in Hoffman Estates forever. Under the digitizing plan, the National Archives will get custody of all the physical papers once they’ve been put online. The unclassified documents will go to a National Archives storage facility near Kansas City, Mo. and the classified ones will go back to Washington, D.C.
Until the digitizing work begins, the documents will stay in Hoffman Estates behind the the small security gate installed at the parking lot entrance.”
Nice find!
Daily Harold printed (August 2022) that Hoffman Estates board extended storage for 4 more years.
Obama has been out of office for almost 6 years. And yet, he gets to keep declaring when and where and if his documents go anywhere other than in his possession in a warehouse.
This is IN YOUR FACE politics letting US, we the people know they they get to do whatever they want whenever they decide. This is what we are up against.
“So, save your insufferable subpoenas.”
Just sad….very, very sad. The commie infiltrators have ruin almost all of our gov’t institutions. Which may be a good thing, we can just eliminate them and not fuss with reform.
Rules for thee but not for me in the former land of the free.
Then we need to break into the Hoffman Estates and get these files…
Sundance is amazing.
Well I,ll be dipped !!!! surely they must been unclassified classified documents right????
Nice summary here
https://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2022/08/20/the-hidden-changing-twisting-story-of-nara/
$3,300,000?! To “loan” classified and unclassified docs, recordings, etc.?! Pay for play, the democrat way. Yet again, rules for thee, not for me.
And on OUR MONEY.
PDJT is targeted for prosecution based upon “microscopic examination of everything for years on end until we can pigeonhole some innocuous thing into a wildly expansive version of a statute that has no criminal element” and charge him anyway.
Obama, the Bidens, dems brag about actual crimes and, poof, nothing. Biden is on tape bragging about using his office as VP to extort Uke prosecutors to drop their investigation of his honey hole Burisma. In-your-face corruption and the ‘justice department’ laughs. And you better shut up about it unless you want an IRS audit.
This is why no thinking person has any faith left in the DoJ, FBI, or the court system.
Surprise surprise surprise.
Obama knew full well where his birth certificates, and Joe Arpaio’s Arizona Sheriff’s records were being classified but not for National Security, but to conceal his own clandestine CIA archival documents buried in the bankrupt Sears Kenmore Warehouse in Illinois,since Obama appointed National Archivist David Ferriero in July 2009 with a Deep librarian catalogue and his prior background with libraries including Duke Univ. Library, NYC library, and M.I.T. Library.
I need help here I am arguing with a libtard and they insist that the Hoffman Estates WAS a secure NARA facility. Does anyone have any info that it was NOT a secured NARA facility.
Depends what your definition of secure is./sarc
The building required upgrades to become ‘secure’
From the memorandum of understanding :
The workroom within the Hoffman Estates facility will require a number of building
improvements in order to accommodate a mass digitization operation, including but not limited
to:
● Installing and providing ongoing maintenance and support of data and telephone lines
● Enhancing electrical capacity
● Installing appropriate flooring tile
● Constructing a server cage
● Holdings security requirements (e.g., security cameras, etc.)
https://web.archive.org/web/20200607225527/https://www.obama.org/wp-content/uploads/NARA_Digitization_MOU-1.pdf
Right but that is for outside vendors doing the “digitizing” According to them this says it all….The Hoffman Estates was always NARA-Controlled facility unlike Mar-A-Lago.
The Records are owned by NARA and currently held at a NARA-controlled facility located in Hoffman Estates, Illinois (“Hoffman Estates”).
NARA obviously deemed the facilities not appropriate for classified documents since they budgeted 3+million dollars to move them to a appropriately secured location. Documents began arriving there in 2016 and nara did not assume possession until trump was sworn in. There is no report saying when nara got the keys to the building and nara didnt lease the building. GSA did. Its not so much about Obama’s team having sole control. Its about the nature of negotiations or dispute resolution. The MOU NARA agreed to even stipulates team obama cannot be held responsible if the digitization never completes. Thus, the building was not ‘secure’, and ‘lost’ items are forever lost with no recourse. Further, NARA agrees to pay for Obama’s team to get tier 1 security clearance for the digitizers which you wouldnt need if the papers were non classified.
Thank you!
You have to ask…. why would NARA move classified documents to a location and then later request money to move them again to a appropriately secured location? They wouldnt….
Have these ordinances been completed, or is the place still an insecure “holding place” for Obumma’s documents????
no, NARA reported that covid is the new reason why work is not complete/started
I cannot wait to read Ms. Lindsie’s and McTurdle’s strongly worded letters of outrage over this, demanding investigations and justice to be served.
Saw an article on the msm page today that turtle said “I’m done with Trump!!” and
that he’ll never speak to Trump again.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. 🫣 🤭. 🤪 🤮
I’m sure PDJT spent days/nights sobbing uncontrollably once he heard McTurtles insult/S
Hypocrisy bounces off the left like bullets off Superman’s chest. The difference between the queer Kenyan and Bad Orange man is, well, the end justifies the means. Making up laws, twisting and contorting laws–whatever it takes–to keep Trump out of the White House is all that matters to the Ruling Class.
That’s the way Junta’s roll in a banana republic. Stop them if you can–or dare.
i’m sure…some how…Trump will be blamed for this as well.
The last four paragraphs are without a doubt quite possibly the most elegant wording for—Eat A Bag Of #$%ks.
Lee Smith did research and wrote an article about archives that taken out or were destroyed by the Obama entourage.
Don’t forget the ones that were sold to China, etc.
Excuse me I was mistaken. The article that I referring to was by Jack Cashill, “And Berger got a $50K fine for stealing classified intel?”
I remember when his ‘records’ were moved to warehouse some years ago. Supposed to be for his presidential library. Always wondered what happened to them. Who stands guard over these records?
A warehouse fire in the near future? 🤔
At this point a fire does no good unless the DoJ building where the historical records for each classified item has a mysterious fire at the same time.
Hey, it works for food warehouses..
“Obama Presidential Records” … or in other words …. materials from his presidency that are still considered Obama’s property he was storing is an old warehouse, illegally for the classified materials due to handling requirements.
How much of that Obama Foundation money was US Tax Dollars that was “supposed” to be used to provide for proper storage assets for classified materials???
By the way all those “classified materials” are KNOWN to the Government and are not new “revelations”. Every classified bit of material (original or copy) has an associated historical record. That means when it is moved or periodically inventoried as is required, there is at least a record of the movement to the warehouse for each classified item and at least 6 years of REQUIRED inspection records that are in GOVERNMENT HANDS. Plus, there is supposed to be an annual RECORDED inspection of the storage area (facility) by the GOVERNMENT.
The webs they weave….
So who is going to bring this to anyoue’s attention/ surely someone could use this for the defense ?
someone posted on President Trump’s Truth Social
Just a very obvious tell that the DOJ was looking for specific classified copies—-Crossfire Hurricane, etc.
https://www.obama.org/the-center/construction/
-They need more storage time
Got 4 years more, I think.
Every facet of our government is infested with corrupt, partisan and activist democrats. Obama built that.
It’s crystal clear who is allowed to strip classified material and who isn’t.
I would bet fast and furious gun running material can be found along with his Muslim brotherhood connections.
well, well, well
If there was a word from our lifetime… used to label a practice… that I would never want to hear again throughout the duration of my remaining life…it is “gaslighting”. I am sick of this shit and these devil-possessed creatures.
“So, save your insufferable subpoenas.”…I love it.
I’m start to think that both parties in this Trump vs DOJ/ IC thing are nothing more than agitprop and very staged theater.
super secure warehouse
Where would we be without Google Streetview?
Send the AG a copy!