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Sep 29, 2022 • 6 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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NEW: Remember when Trump took a trip to Japan back in 2019 and reports surfaced that the WH requested the move the USS John McCain out of view so it wouldn't upset Trump?

Well, I #FOIA'd the military for docs about this & 3 yrs later they just arrived

"This just makes me sad"
The White House Military Office passed along a request to keep the USS John McCain out of sight when Trump visited Japan.
How the sequence of events unfolded. An email describing how the directives to keep the USS John McCain out of sight during Trump's 2019 visit to Japan were passed to US Indo-Pacific Command and the Navy
Navy officials wanted names of the individuals responsible for requesting the USS John McCain be kept out of view during Trump's visit to Japan. They seem stunned.
All of the White House Military Office emails about the discussions to keep the USS John McCain out of sight during Trump's visit to Japan are classified and redacted except for one.
NEW: Here's the story & 109 pages of emails I rec'd from US Indo Pacific Command in response to my #FOIA request about the Trump WH's request to keep the USS John McCain "out of sight" during Trump's Japan visit & what went on behind the scenes
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Mar 18
NEW: Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is blocking the DEA from releasing an unredacted document from the Epstein files about an investigation involving drug trafficking & money laundering, according to a letter @RonWyden sent to Blanche Tuesday

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The document, a 69-page target profile prepared for the DEA by the Department of Justice’s now-defunct Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces, was released in January along with millions of pages of other documents from the Epstein files. Although heavily redacted, it showed that the DEA and the Task Forces, known as OCDETF, investigated Epstein, 12 other people and two businesses in 2015
bloomberg.com/news/features/…
Wyden initially requested the document from the DEA on Feb. 25, after it was first reported by CBS News. In his letter to Blanche, which cited Bloomberg’s recent reporting, Wyden said that “shortly after I requested an unredacted copy of this OCDETF memorandum, DOJ stepped in to prevent DEA from complying with my request.”
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Mar 6
NEW from me: Ketamine, Prostitution and Money: Here Are The Details of a Secret DEA Probe of Jeffrey Epstein

🎁bloomberg.com/news/features/…
The investigation, which grew out of a longstanding probe into organized crime, was conducted by a secretive intelligence and law enforcement unit of the DEA and a transnational crime-fighting task force. It began after an informant told authorities that Epstein was involved in the illicit funding and distribution of so-called club drugs, including ecstasy, ketamine and methamphetamines, according to the people, who asked not to be named to discuss sensitive law enforcement matters.
The individuals named in a document related to the investigation, according to the people, included Epstein’s accountants, attorneys and European women who worked as his assistants or fashion models. The DEA investigation also named two businesses.
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Feb 19
NEW: Kathy Ruemmler shared nonpublic details with Jeffrey Epstein about the White House's probe into a 2012 prostitution scandal that engulfed the Secret Service during her tenure as White House counsel, emails show
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In a dozen or so exchanges that were sent months after Ruemmler left her White House position in 2014, she complained to Epstein about “this secret service crap” and forwarded to him a draft email that contained detailed, nonpublic information about the behind-the-scenes role the White House Counsel’s office played in investigating the 2012 prostitution scandal
Epstein offered advice, as well as what he described as “edits” to the email draft, which Ruemmler indicated she was planning to send to a journalist. “Breathe, smile. You’re free,” he wrote in one message.
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Feb 6
NEW: The Epstein files released last week includes hundreds of pages of docs that lays bare the behind-the-scenes chaos at the FBI early last year over the review of the files & questions on what should be redacted related to victims and public figures
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First off, remember when Attorney General Pam Bondi said last March that the FBI turned over a “truckload” of Epstein files after she bungled the rollout of “Phase One” of the documents? Well, Bondi wasn’t being facetious. According to the documents in the Epstein files, the FBI literally rented a U-Haul to transport some of the documents from New York to Washington (others were shipped via FedEx).Image
One important document is an eight-page timeline that summarizes the FBI’s collection and review of the Epstein files between March and the end of April 2025, a couple months before the DOJ and FBI concluded that “no further disclosure” of the files “would be appropriate or warranted.”Image
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Dec 18, 2025
Epstein Files countdown: What should the files reveal? For one, details about this previously undisclosed money laundering investigation conducted by the US Atty in Fla in 2007 & 2008. My @business & I uncovered details of this probe in Oct.

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We pubbed our 1st investigative story in our series in Sept, based on 18K previously undisclosed emails @business obtained earlier this year. That story, about the relationship b/w UK Amb to the US Peter Mandelson & Epstein, resulted in Mandelson's firing
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Our next story focused on Ghislaine Maxwell. The emails shed new light on Maxwell’s partnership w/Epstein & exposed the holes in the story she told Todd Blanche this summer. One detail we revealed: Maxwell & Epstein discussed undergoing a shared fertility procedure. And this
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Dec 12, 2025
🚨 NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out! DOJ & FBI have made revelatory disclosures in my #FOIA lawsuit about the docs it withheld related to their review/redaction of the Epstein files

Intriguingly, the FBI said it searched "client lists" to locate records
bloomberg.com/news/newslette…Image
While we all wait and see if the DOJ will meet its Dec. 19 deadline and turn over the Epstein files to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, I’m still trying to cut through the secrecy around the FBI’s review of the files. In particular, I’ve been curious to know what was behind the mad scramble at the FBI to prepare the files for public release, and then why the bureau and DOJ abruptly concluded that disclosure of them would not be “appropriate or warranted” after all.
Last month, I got 60 pages of emails from the FBI, some of which I featured in the Nov. 25th edition of FOIA Files. They were the first look inside the rushed process at the FBI that took place earlier this year, between March and May. 
bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
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