🧵So, the entire "Prohibited Access" revelation prompted me to pull up the transcript from former Pittsburgh U.S. Attorney Scott Brady's closed-door testimony. Brady you'll recall was charged with screening evidence re Ukraine corruption, i.e. Biden family pay-to-play. 1/
2/ I've been pondering how FBI can actually do a thorough investigation given Prohibited Access functionality & immediately thought of that screening b/c same FBI supervisor Tim Thibault involved in Nellie Ohr case w/ Prohibited Access documents at issue involved in investigation of Biden.
3/ More I read of that release from Grassley the more I think that the "restricted access" referenced was actually "Prohibited Access" but that no one "got" that there were 2 different categories & difference was with Prohibited Access you couldn't even see that a file existed.
4/ Re-read point 3 above as I think that might be a huge forthcoming revelation. But returning to the Brady investigation of Ukraine corruption: Brady testified he asked FBI to review their holdings.
5/ The FBI agents doing that review, though, would NOT have access to the "Protected Access" subfiles so a review of the holdings would show NOTHING existed, even if it did!!
6/ Let this sink in for minute: United States Attorney General directed United States Attorney to oversee vetting of evidence of corruption related to Ukraine, including of presidential candidate, but FBI agents running search queries in Sentinel weren't getting accurate results.
7/ Sentinel would return "no documents" to search queries when in fact there could be documents that were within the "Prohibited Access" area. And this is NOT like "restricted access" where FBI would know they exist & would seek access, they'd believe there were no documents.
8/8 Folks, this scandal is
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