Thread by @walkafyre

So I’m a couple of days behind, but it’s ok because it’s now #FOIAFriday! Earlier this week, a new Midyear Exam drop was released on the FBI’s Vault. Let’s go through the 60+ pages of Part 48 of MYE. vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-cli…

First up, we have some notes from an interview of an unknown Secret Service agent on May 25, 2016. If you recall, the attachments to a 302 serial are called the “1A” file. As you can see from the first page, this would be MYE-302-093-1A76.

I’m not going to go deep into the notes themselves here, but @15poundstogo has some highlights in the attached tweet, and the comments below it look at some of the rest of the notes. You should go there and look through the discussion, then come back.

What I find interesting is how much the substance of the notes differs from the final 302, which was actually released ALL the way back in Part 4. themyefiles.org/#individual-se…

As we’ll see, most of this drop seems to consist of records related to USSS. Before releasing docs under FOIA, the FBI has to send docs out to any other agency that may have “equities” in the record. So it appears USSS just returned these docs that they’ve reviewed under FOIA.

Next we have a response from USSS to FBI regarding a preservation request that FBI sent. The FBI sent these out at the beginning of MYE to any agencies that might have had equities in Hillary’s emails, to determine if any classified info was leaked. Not much detail unredacted…

Then again, most of the preservation responses are mostly redacted. There’s actually an entire subfile (PRESPRO) for all the requests and responses. This one from USSS is MYE-PRESPRO-019.

We then have several pages as part of a production from the State Department to FBI in response to a preservation request. We’ve seen other parts of this same response in other releases (MYE-PRESPRO-029-1A21).

This is an interesting certification from someone at DOS, probably someone lower-level who was on an email chain or something. Maybe I can figure it out with some more analysis later.

Next we have another attachment to a PRESPRO Serial. Another response package from USSS. This is MYE-PRESPRO-097-1A63. The 3rd screenshot is the actual serial itself, which was released in Part 15.

Next up is a memo from USSS in regards to a classification review by FBI. This is serial 54 in the OCA (“Original Classification Authority”) subfile. So MYE-OCA-054. It attaches the memo from the FBI as well.

Next is a similar response to a separate request from the FBI. This one is MYE-OCA-069.

Next we get a copy of a classification review request to the CIA. This is MYE-OCA-072-1A46. There were 2 pages withheld in full, so we don’t have much detail on the actual file sent for review. The last screenshot is the actual serial (MYE-OCA-072), that was released in Part 20.

Here we have some more pages of a CIA response to a classification review request. MYE-OCA-068-1A43. Apparently the included emails are “UNCLASSIFIED” according to the response letter. So I wonder why someone handwrote “CLASSIFIED” at the top of this one?

This is interesting just because of all the handwringing over the documents at Mar-A-Lago. As you can see, just because there is a cover page with TOP SECRET blazed across the front doesn’t mean that what is inside is necessarily classified.

And we finally get the 302 for Huma Abedin’s January 6, 2017 interview. MYE-302-102. We’ve actually known about this interview since Part 24. In Part 30, this was withheld from release for a “Referral/Consult” with another agency, but I have no idea why or what agency…

Technically, the notes of her interview are actually MYE-302-103-1A85 (rather than under 302-102), but that’s just based on how they were filed in the system.

This is what was released in Part 24, for those curious.

Finally, we get some NDAs signed by Huma’s attorneys as well as some of the documents that were shown to her. These are still part of the 302-103-1A85 file.

That’s it for this drop! There are of course several pages I did not screenshot, nor did I dive much into the content of some of the notes/serials, but I wanted to thread the actual serials released. Thoughts on the documents themselves may be added under those tweets above.

I will try to get the documents separated out and uploaded to themyefiles.org soon. But definitely go through the Part 48 link at the top of the thread and see what you find! /end