As previously noted, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley released some of the FBI investigative files related to a congressional referral of Nellie Ohr for false testimony to congress. Within the Grassley release the declassified FBI investigative notes show that Trump-Russia files were compartmentalized, allowing control over access to them by the FBI Director and FBI Deputy Director.
The 7th floor level classification within the FBI’s Sentinel record-keeping system was previously unknown, and now people are starting to ask questions about what other information may be filed yet invisible due to the classification designation of “Prohibited Access.”
The Sentinel record-keeping system allows FBI officials and investigators to review and research the status of investigations both past and current. The Sentinel system is also the information system that is searched for responsive documents to legal cases and FOIA inquires. The Sentinel system contains all the information used by the FBI.
Within the Sentinel system there are “Restricted Access” files that are used to control who can view the file information. The FBI official can see the file but cannot access the information within it without a higher clearance level. However, now people are discovering there is a “Prohibited Access” designation that makes the file invisible to searches or queries and is controlled by the FBI Director and FBI Deputy Director.
Margot Cleveland is asking some good questions about how the use of the “Prohibited Access” designation may circumvent the FBI’s legal requirements (brady material) and FOIA searches. [SEE HERE] However, I would also note this approach hides information not only from congress and from the public, but also from the Executive branch itself. The DNI wouldn’t even know what information exists.
Additionally, we can expand the overall issue to highlight this same approach at work in various other governmental agencies. This is one of the reasons I refer to the agencies within government more aptly as information “silos.”
The same “secrecy filtering” system outlined in the FBI Sentinel system, “restricted access” (visible but needing a higher clearance) vs “prohibited access” (totally invisible) exists in other govt systems.
The NSA, DHS and CIA contain the same issue, information hidden and kept secret. This is the core reason I have historically called them “silos.”
The same ‘what the heck’ realization encountered with the FBI file keeping, as noted by the Grassley revelations, extends far beyond the FBI.
This is also why I have said the Intelligence Community has created a “caste system” within the surveillance and information space.
Now do you see why elements of the IC, and by extension their political enablers, were going bananas about DOGE access?
Simmer on it for a moment, because it gets worse.
Right now, like right now while you are reading this, the same framework is being applied to the DHS surveillance network, where “restricted access” and “prohibited access” (invisible) are being applied to PEOPLE.
Our government, via Palantir, is currently building the domestic identity surveillance system, where every identity will be stored. However, within the storage, and by extension the parameters of the surveillance search results, there will be people who are defined by placing their identity in the “prohibited access” category.
Great job realizing the secrecy ramifications of the issue within the FBI and their exploitation therein. Now extend that realization to the ramifications for us of other silos doing the same.
I was told in August 2020 that the FBI investigative file into James Wolfe leaking the Carter Page FISA application, is in the “prohibited access” tier of the FBI because it outlines Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Vice-Chairman Mark Warner participating and directing the leak. That was how/why SSCI Security Director James Wolfe was never charged with leaking a TSCI classified file.
Is the President of the United States really in charge of the executive branch, when the agencies can easily hide information from him?
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Was this information also secret from the DNI? Could have huge national security implications.
hiding comms of you conspiring against a candidate and then sitting president…
if this folder identifying, leads to seeing the thousands of other hidden files, then that would be amazing.
I’d guess its more of just private conspiracy wish’d to be kept hidden.
Here is a question which Kash Patel and Dan Bongino appear to have no interest in asking: What kind of documentary evidence in electonic and hardcopy form still exists concerning the who’s, the how’s, and the why’s of the January 6th 2021 Fedsurrection?
Does any of it still exist anywhere? Or did any such documentation ever exist at all; i.e., the whole Fedsurrection thing was done by word of mouth instructions and no paper or electronic document was ever produced either in its planning or in its execution?
You presume too much. Patel & Bongino are searching for documentary evidence. In fact Bongino has publicly asked people to come forward with leads, evidence, etc. Why do you assume that because your curiosity is not sated less than 4 months after they have taken office that nothing is being done? Assuming they have a desire to prosecute, why would you think publicity right now would help that goal? Be patient, at least give them 6 months to assemble their teams, ferret out the bad actors, put out fires, investigate the ongoing threats, and work on the backload.
Maybe they can take a look at Ray Epps as a USPS Inspector as his day job centered out of Maricopa
and Pinal Counties, AZ. That was possibly his day job.
His enjoyable hobby add on was as Gubmint Freelancing
Spook, Black Bag operative, on call as needed.
At this point, if the FBI asked for my information and I knew something they didn’t, I’d assume it was a set up to bury me. I wouldn’t come forward with squat unless I knew for sure someone’s life was in jeopardy, and even then I’d expect at a minimum the FBI would seek to discredit, imprison, or “oof” me.
My opinion may not withstand legal scrutiny but I believe officials in government who were aware of the ongoing sexual abuse of minors, and benefited by that knowledge whether for national security reasons or not, are just as guilty of sexual abuse of minors as are those who actually did the touching.
That’s all a ruse
Must a reminder about what or who is restricted or prohibited….
Fix it, We don’t need another hero.
Tina Turner
Perjury law is our friend.
Hearings under oath.
Make them plead the 5th or lie or admit the truth.
No matter your ticket—left, right, or riding the rails—when the G-men start hatching hush-hush ghost files no gumshoe can sniff, you’re not looking at justice, you’re staring down a fed-run racket. This ain’t just pencil-pushing in the shadows—it’s boiler-room bunk dressed up in a starched collar. When the top brass keep the books under lock and key, not even the House or the Prez gets a peek, that’s not Uncle Sam—that’s a shakedown in a government suit. It’s not democracy, it’s a shell game with a federal stamp and a smoke-filled backroom. And brother, if that don’t make your liberty-loving blood boil, you’ve already gone soft.
J Edgar Hoover had files on everybody everywhere. It’s the same FBI.
Shell game. That is such a perfect metaphor. Thank you, I’ll be borrowing it!
Nothing was hidden from the Lord, so satan’s spawn in the IC are gonna poop their pants because the Judge of All has High Court in session. 🙏😇😁👍🏻
How awesome could it be that there will be a hacker setting about to find that system and its files.
Maybe worth a lot of money, maybe worth freedom?
Maybe worth watching Authorities squirm and get justice handed to them?
With God, all things are possible….and maybe probable?
” ….I was told in August 2020 that the FBI investigative file into James Wolfe leaking the Carter Page FISA application, is in the “prohibited access TEIR” tier of the FBI beca…” – May 31 2025- did you publish Wolfe info from before the year 2024?
Yes
lolol…. You new here? The “Wolfe info” has its own drop down box in category section.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/category/james-wolfe-case-ssci/
Possibly, if you focus on when the continuity of government was designed and set up, and who was involved (all the players and aides, congress, lawyers, alphabet agencies, military) 9/11 truth, designers of the Patriot Act, it’s enforcement, we’ll find all the names, aides, lobbies of who are deep state. It started long before that, and I’m sure a lot of those people involved are dead. But not all. But it starts shining the light on the deep state, from congress, to aides, lawyers, agencies, judges, corporations and presidents. There are many theories or facts on when it started, but possibly look there first. Smash into that cluster and we’ll find more answers.
Luke 8:17 and Mark4:22 For nothing is hidden, that shall not be made manifest. Anything done in darkness will be brought to the light. Hebrews 6:18 It is impossible for God to lie. That is a promise and oath of The Lord.
I’m believing on that promise.
I’m just brainstorming here. Any suggestions are welcomed.
But I’m believing on the promises of Almighty God.
It’s not a man that will save this country, it’s God.He is using man for his purpose.
So the USA is a monarchy. The ‘fourth branch’ is a proxy House of Lords replete with unelected ‘nobles’ superior to the rest of the population and privy to secret but powerful knowledge. I wonder who the king is?
BTW I wager the Brits and Israelis know (and probably the Russians).
The idea has presented, that if the Hoover Building was evacuated, a team from Doge could enter and go to work. Then, the remembrance of what happened, when Building 7 was evacuated impinges. So, the secret rooms with the evidence swept under the rug remain safe in the anon.
Why is Grassley telling us that there are super secret files? If there are crimes or violations of constitutional principles, then keep working on the case until arrests are made. Until then, quit virtue signaling and about another “outrage” generating discovery.
We are numb to outrage. We have cold hard anger, and assurance that we stand on truth. We have quit allowing your gaslighting to cause us to doubt ourselves. We have reigned in our submission and trust to government and helpful obedience.
Show us arrests. Show us the history, intent, and deceit; the names, the flow of illegal money and influence. Show us which lies, which people were violated, and arrest them.
You keep nibbling at the cancer consuming the body of our sacred nation. But while you profit, we keep having to make more bricks with less straw.
Excellent point. I remember all the “stern” letters Chuck Grassley sent Obama for eight long years.
March 16, 2006 – FBI Director Robert Mueller announced Lockheed Martin was awarded the contract for development of the Sentinel system.
Mueller: “Sentinel will strengthen the FBI’s capabilities by replacing its primarily paper-based reporting system with an electronic system designed for information sharing. Sentinel will support our current priorities, including our number one priority: preventing terrorist attacks. At the same time, the system will be flexible and adaptable, to address future technological advances and changes in our mission and threat environment.”
https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-announces-award-of-sentinel-contract#:~:text=A%20thorough%20evaluation%20process%20was,Share
In October 2010, the FBI put the program through a TechStat session and changed direction by implementing an agile software development approach. It also moved away from having one prime integrator, Lockheed Martin, and brought the operational management of the program in house. The agile approach is developing in three-to-six month increments and using stakeholder feedback to ensure the system meets their needs.
The FBI brought in other contractors to handle different task orders under Sentinel, including BAE, Noblis, Keane and Booze Allen Hamilton, in addition to Lockheed.
“The vision of what the FBI needed to have a flexible workflow capability, to have a flexible record keeping capability that is largely a static requirement,” he said. “We built Sentinel to provide that platform, to exceed that specification and be an adaptable platform for future capabilities as needs arise.”
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/ask-the-cio/2012/08/fbi-turns-troubled-into-triumph-with-sentinel-system/
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Can someone please explain to me, what is agile software approach? … And what does “flexible and adaptable systems” mean in this context? Flexible record keeping?!?!
Explanation of agile software development approach
In the past many large software projects failed to deliver. A main reason was the
“waterfall approach” to development. That meant the steps went in sequence –
1) gather requirements
2) design software
3) build software
4) test software
5) deliver to client
But when clients didn’t get to actually see the software until the end that led to problems. Sometimes the developers did not understand the requirements so they developed something that did not meet client needs. Sometimes the requirements were too vague or missed critical factors.
To avoid these problems the agile method was developed. It used the same basic steps, but in much shorter increments. The idea is to develop a small piece of software that just does a few things, deliver it to clients, then add new functionality bit by bit.
CA government experienced a terribly insufficient end product when one department of an agency spent $40 million for a SAP program that left the department unable to invoice or make payments for almost an entire year. That was just one issue; there were so many more.
The end product did not work for government. The waterfall style was used for its development and roll out. What a massive disaster it was. It Took years, and several hundred million more dollars to become “usable”.
Often the customer cant even tell you what they want or know what they want. So if you can show a minimum viable product or prototype and get feedback it can save time and resources.
😊 Thank you.
An agile software approach. Agile is project management methodology. There have been different project management methodologies over time touted to effectively manage a project and bring it into production while trying to be on time and on budget. Agile is one of the latest and greatest being used.
Flexible record keeping. Basically Just what was said “flexible and adaptable, to address future technological advances and changes in our mission and threat environment.” The ability to add more data collection and subject matter as it becomes feasible and desired. The ability to scale and store increased amounts of data, integrate it with existing data, and handle increased numbers of persons using the system. Making the info available on different platforms, mobile, desktop, laptop could also be part of the equation.
Security of system and data access surrounds the whole effort.
Thank you. 😊
Federal Criminal Charges that should have been filed against the FBI past and most recent leadership, including their co-conspirators, and contractors, if the latter were in the know it was created to brake the law:
Obstruction of Justice
18 U.S.C. § 1505
18 U.S.C. § 1512
Conspiracy to Obstruct Justice
18 U.S.C. § 371
Conspiracy Against Rights
18 U.S.C. § 241
Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law
18 U.S.C. § 242
Fraud Against the United States / Defrauding the Government
18 U.S.C. § 371 (second application)
Wire Fraud (if misused government systems electronically)
18 U.S.C. § 1343
Conspiracy to Commit Offense or to Defraud the United States
18 U.S.C. § 371 (catch-all for planning other crimes)
The FBI should not be allowed to investigate itself.
Apparently Sentinel has plagued FBI for years…
FBI’s Expensive Sentinel Computer System Still Isn’t Working, Despite Report
Published Sep 24, 2014 /Updated Feb 29, 2016
Sentinel, successor to the FBI’s antiquated Automatic Case Support System, or ACS, was supposed to be finished by the end of 2009 at a cost of $425 million. Plagued by mismanagement, cost overruns and technical glitches detailed in a series of reviews through the years, … FBI special agents and intelligence analysts sometimes still have to visit another field office to obtain a particularly big or sensitive file, sources say.
Two years ago, the IG noted, the FBI insisted that Sentinel’s search function worked just fine. “Yet we found that only 42 percent of the respondents to our survey who used Sentinel’s search functionality often received the results they needed,” the IG reported this week.
In particular, “Sentinel returned either too many search results for users to reasonably review or no results at all for a document the user knew existed,” 23 employees added in a comment section. (Italics added.)
Stuff was missing from the new system, too, employees complained, “features that they believed are critical to their duties,” such as “Sentinel’s integration with other FBI information technology systems.” Special Agents and their supervisors also “reported a significant decline in their level of satisfaction with the availability of technical and policy-related support after the deployment of Sentinel.”
Considering all that, it comes as little surprise to learn that some FBI employees yearn for the good old days, computer-wise. Twenty of them added complaints to the survey questionnaire that “the search function in the Automated Case Support system (ACS), the FBI’s prior case management system, was superior to the search function in Sentinel.”
https://www.newsweek.com/fbis-expensive-sentinel-computer-system-still-isnt-working-despite-report-272855
“I was told in August 2020 that the FBI investigative file into James Wolfe leaking the Carter Page FISA application, is in the “prohibited access” tier of the FBI because it outlines Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Vice-Chairman Mark Warner participating and directing the leak. That was how/why SSCI Security Director James Wolfe was never charged with leaking a TSCI classified file.”
I infer from this that Warner is a FBI asset within the US Senate.
Nice catch.
has anyone noticed that is Admiral Michael S. Rogers – U.S. Navy admiral and 17th director of the National Security Agency sitting beside Comey during the Congressional hearing video?
Admiral Rogers is the one that reported to TPTB of the 701 violations by contractors.
Yes. It would be interesting to read a body language analysis of both Comey and Rodgers of that video segment.
Admiral Rodgers role as a “good guy” is completely overstated imo.
This room full of “hidden” evidence at FBI headquarters is Blackmail Central of the FBI.
This is almost certainly the Mother Lode of disgusting evidence against all child-molesting politicians.
This is the moment in which those who claim to be moral warriors against the corruption in Washington DC will have to decide whether or not they completely abandon the “moral high ground” they love to claim on behalf of the American people.
This American Republic cannot continue if Donald Trump’s appointees refuse to expose and prosecute these despicable politicians of BOTH political parties, no matter how powerful they may appear to be.
This is a fatal sickness for America if left untreated.
The hidden evidence held by the FBI MUST BE RELEASED and used to prosecute the criminal degenerates inside our political system.
Otherwise, we are FOREVER being manipulated by the worst sewer rats on Earth. Moral degenerates in power are being blackmailed and controlled by EVEN WORSE moral degenerates who have the goods on them.
This is the REAL FBI !
The greatest enemy of “We the People” is not China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea; it is our own government.
This is the very definition of the Deep State. Agencies are running the country outside of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches, and outside of the Constitution. They ferment and perpetuate discord to sway public opinion, but I’m beginning to lose hope that the Trump administration is going to change anything. The Epstein investigation went quiet and now Bongino is singing the Deep State song, after saying otherwise for a long time.
“They don’t know what they don’t know”
Now we have a full understanding of what that meant.
Is it safe to assume that John Ratcliffe has discovered the same thing where he is working.
I would bet that there is an even more super secret system above that prohibited one just in case anyone was interested in how this all works. No one on the outside will actually get to the truth unless they want it released.
That photo of the congratulatory “welcome-to-the-club” handshake between Comey and Warner while dual traitors Brennan and Turdbrain look on screams volumes of corruption and deceit -or- is that just my imagination?
So was Bongino’s “room full documents” disclosure on FOX a limited hangout amd this is the real story?
i thought this is what it meant. I dont remember President Trump also saying that found a room
“The NSA, DHS and CIA contain the same issue, information hidden and kept secret. This is the core reason I have historically called them ‘silos.'”
This notion that the IC has created a caste system with specific tiering is frightening insomuch that we need to fully understand the agencies in terms of people/processes/tools for each silo. And also outputs and/or reporting. These components should be mapped out to drive transparency as well as to determine similarities and differences between the agencies. We do this regularly in the business world as part of Six Sigma project management approach when trying to create a target operating model or trying to fix embedded complexity within a part of the company.
Then the important step of brainstorming solutions can occur for each part of the mapping (i.e., people/processes/tools) where pain points have been identified — of which there will be many.
This would be a multifaceted project management effort, and one that I would love to work on.
HEY, SUNDANCE… PLEASE BE A SOLUTION!!! ENOUGH!!!
You have called out the IC silo problem etc. for years, yet you do not provide solution(s). I have been a CTH branch for more than a decade but am tired of your lack for any solution(s). No more $$ from me given your black pilling. Done. If you want help in steering the ship forward (seriously), contact me.
Thank you for the years of knowledge sharing. I am most grateful on my departure. AMB, Seaquinn
Don’t look for the files. Look for the people with access to them, or is that a secret too…..
During hearing (above video-1:45), Stefanik “drills down” and Comey states the Director for Counter Intelligence is who decides what gets briefed to Congressional leadership for quarterly updates. Should that be person of interest?
According to wikipedia:
The counterintelligence Division is headed by an assistant director, who reports to the executive assistant director (EAD) of the FBI National Security Branch (NSB).
The Current NSB EAD is Larissa Knapp, who has been leading the NSB since May 23, 2022. FBI Director Christopher Wray appointed Knapp EAD. On April 17 2023, FBI Director Christopher Wray named Suzanne Turner assistant director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division.
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When I did a quick web search, the name Roman Rozhavsky pops up as “Acting Assistant Director for Counterintelligence” but I’m having difficulty accessing offical press statement for his appointment….unfortunately, don’t have time to search it further right now. 🙂
Comey actually said “Head of our Counterintelligence division” not “Director” as I wrote above.
Mark Warner gave the narrative with the FISA leak to assist in calling for Mueller.
I got a question, might have missed it.
How was this room found out about…. , this folder system that is blinded to all people but the users
How did Grassley know about it?
for Sentinel – — the manual, training, etc… would outline the various file storage areas and access. this folder should be known. and its a shock that people coming in wouldnt know it exist.
unless this is an add-on or super admin status stuff, i don’t get it.
There are no document classifications in the federal government with the designations of “Restrictive Access” or “Prohibited Access.” The closest would be “Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI),” but is a subcategory of “Top Secret,” or “ts/sci.” Access to SCI is restricted to those with the security clearance that permits entry to a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF).
This FBI system is an unauthorized, rogue classification system.
The U.S. federal government uses a three-level classification system for documents: Top Secret, Secret, and Confidential. These classifications are determined by the potential damage to national security if the information is disclosed.
Here’s a breakdown of each level:
We are becoming 1964 courtesy of Bush’s Homeland Security. This must be ended now and the Intelligence and Security communities split up and restricted severely. They no longer defended American interests, they serve the Deep state oligarchy.