Many articles are being written and much typeset is being exhausted by people talking about the recent revelations that the FBI has a designated information silo called “prohibited access” within its record keeping system. Allow me to jump this readership well into the future and give you a cliff notes summary of the logical conclusion(s).
The FBI needs a filing system for information designated “Prohibited Access” because the FBI handles extremely sensitive covert operations, including spies both foreign and domestic, within its agency. The storage of extremely sensitive national security information is not the issue.
Prior to 2007, in the olden days, the files and information were under lock and key in secure rooms, with access only available to the FBI director.
The issue is that since around 2007, the “Prohibited Access” definitions have expanded as FBI leadership began using the designation to hide information that was detrimental to their interests. The issue is the type of information hidden within the now electronic system, is evidence of activity the FBI conducts that they don’t want the American people to know about.
Jumping you ahead of the curve, there’s even a level of FBI information assembled that exceeds the “Prohibited Access” qualification. That information is transferred to CIA vaults that are available due to the same legislative authority that empowers the CIA to operate without any oversight [other than the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI)]. The CIA is the “sister agency” to the FBI.
I finally understood what my research was indicating, after I was informed of these processes while in Washington DC. The justification for an information black hole, what I call silos, stems from a DC worldview around “the continuity of government.”
In order to protect you, me and the American people from something that might harm our “life, liberty and pursuit of happiness – ie., our democracy,” various systems were constructed to control information that would be detrimental to the continuity of government. Ultimately all of the mis-dis-malinformation controls from DHS are justified under the same type of mindset and practices.
EXAMPLE: If Hitler were running for President, those who carry responsibility to protect the American form of government from Hitler, could engage an intelligence community operation to protect us from Hitler. If a foreign power was helping Hitler, the same intelligence community operation would conduct a counterintelligence operation against the threat that Hitler represented.
All of these “continuity of government” concepts and practices were generally exercises and academic theories with DC systems behind them, until: (#1) our government passed the Patriot Act; and (#2) the Intelligence Community (CIA, FBI, DOJ-NSD et al) replaced the theoretical “Hitler” with the very real person, Donald Trump.
Donald Trump was defined as the existential threat to the continuity of government, therefore all operations against Trump to preserve the continuity of government were warranted.
One of the operations was Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who was given the task of covering up all of the activity that came before him. The elements of Mueller’s investigation, the actual information that could expose govt elements of the targeted decision making, was then filed in this FBI invisible place designated “Prohibited Access.”
Margot Cleveland is subsequently asking if John Durham had access to these “prohibited files” during his investigation? However, that is a moot point, a dead end because: (#1) John Durham was never authorized to look at the inside government activity behind RussiaGate; and (#2) only the government activity behind RussiaGate is within the ‘prohibited files.’
Former CIA Director, President George Herbert Walker Bush, is the modern founding father who constructed the ‘continuity of government’ system (see funeral envelopes). Former President Barack H Obama is the person who weaponized it, “by the book“.
The last note on this “Continuity of Government” aspect to consider is what comes next?
Well, if you carry out the objective to its logical conclusion, at some point Artificial Intelligence will be needed to protect the American public from the defined threats. AI becomes the insurance policy.