By Harold Pease, Ph. D.
The premier law enforcement organization in America is accused of withholding and disappearing evidence in their secret “prohibited access” files. This, primarily exposed through recent revelations through declassified documents and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley’s investigations showing a secretive classification within the FBI’s Sentinel record-keeping system that can disappear documents harmful to FBI interests. This means that hidden data “will not appear in search results, meaning that users of Sentinel would not know that information relevant to their search even exists.
“If Sentinel users do not know that relevant evidence exists, the DOJ cannot possibly provide exculpatory or impeachment evidence to criminal defendants or fulfill their discovery obligations in civil cases. Nor could the DOJ and FBI find all responsive documents for Freedom of Information Act requests, or in response to congressional inquiries or investigations by the inspector general. And the FBI cannot possibly properly investigate criminality if its agents do not even know of potentially relevant evidence “ (“The FBI’s Ability To Disappear Evidence Calls For Transparency, Stat.,” by Margot Cleveland, The Federalist, June 4, 2025). The FBI has two mostly hidden special document classifications restricted and prohibited access. The first differs from the latter in that it clearly exists and can be seen if you are allowed to see it. The second, their is no admission that it exists at all and they alone have access. It is camouflaged.
This depiction of the FBI’s Secret Vault may have been more accurate in the last century, Today its an electronic file not necessarily intended to be found and only the director of the FBI has access to it. It can disappear documents harmful to FBI interests. It is called the “prohibited access” files. Its major function appears to be to cover up or hide wrong doing rather than reveal or prohibit it. It was brought to light by Sen. Chuck Grassley. Going forward attorneys will definitely want to know if the FBI disappeared information on Hillary Clinton Email’s, Crossfire Hurricane, the Select Committee on J6, Hunter Biden laptop, and a number of other cases.
FBI prohibited access has existed in some form at least since 2007.Then, information not to be made public “were under lock and key in secure rooms, with access only available to the FBI director.” The Deep State came to control the entire Intelligence Community (CIA, FBI, DOJ, and NSD). As they sought to engage in activities clearly not acceptable to common Americans , for example, like nation building and regime change in foreign lands, easily documented in Ukraine in 2014, they sought secrecy from exposure. As we progressed through the computer era that information had to be hidden in layers with the highest layer being restricted access but only with their permission. Senator Grassley’s Committee findings burst that bubble, there is the “prohibited assess” level for essentially only them.
The Deep State realized that some day they must destroy the US Constitution and its continuity of government to make government easily adjustable by them. They needed a place to bury the evidence so scholars would defend the narratives they left behind without its exposure, because they would never find the evidence countering. They were the real threat to democracy, not Trump, and almost succeeded in placing this on Trump permanently. “Former CIA Director, President George Herbert Walker Bush, is the modern founding father who constructed the ‘continuity of government’ system … Former President Barack H Obama is the person who weaponized it, ‘by the book’.” (“About the FBI ‘Prohibited Access’ Files, The Last Refuge, June 3, 2025). The message of the Deep State is Trump is Hitler “Therefore all operations against Trump to preserve the continuity of government were warranted.” Again, they almost succeeded with this narrative. The people awoke, rejected the narrative and reelected Trump in a landslide victory in November 2024 but their “Trump is Hitler” narrative still exists.
The above source adds, “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” (Ibid). The same source tells us that similar secrecy mechanisms as “Prohibited Access” “reportedly exist in other agencies like the NSA, DHS, and CIA.”
Still more data surprises are coming, Kash Patel said the following, “When I first got to the Bureau, I found a room that Comey and others hid from the world in the Hoover Building, full of documents and computer hard drives that no one had ever seen or heard of… and just said [presumably to himself or others with him at the time] ‘No one is ever going to find this place.’ ‘Is this something they have been hiding for a very long time?’ We’ve just learned about ‘prohibitive access’ and now a secret room. What else have they been hiding?” Kash has told us that they are investigating Jim Comey. Patel was responding to people demanding arrests right now and used Comey as an example. He was suggesting that we might want to deepen the investigation before rushing off with arrests. We have to do this right, otherwise the corrupt judges would let him off. Remember Comey called for the assassination of Trump just three weeks ago. There may exist documents he hid. Don’t get anxious. Give them time to do it right (X22 Report, Ep. 3660b, June 8, 2025, 52:30).
Another document of great interest once classified TOP SECRET has recently surfaced. It dealt with the transition of power from Barack Obama to Donald
Trump just before Obama left office. President Obama began the meeting stressing his “continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of the transition be handled …by the book.” Then amazingly and irresponsibly, President Obama “said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia. Director Comey affirmed that he is proceeding by the book as it relates to law-enforcement from a national security perspective. Comey said he “does have some concerns that incoming NSA Flynn is speaking frequently with Russian ambassador Kislyak. Comey said that could be an issue as it relates to sharing sensitive information related to Russia to Flynn. Comey replied ‘potentially.’ He added that he had no indication thus far that Flynn has passed classified information to Kislyak, but he noted that ‘the level of communication is unusual.’”
Obama has no business suggesting his transition team withhold evidence from Flynn or Trump. Even more irresponsible was Obama’s outgoing request of Comey “to inform him if anything changes in the next few weeks that should affect how we share classified information with the incoming team. Comey said he would.” Trump, became Comey’s new boss. (Declassified, “Obama presidential Record National Archives and Records Administration,” Jan. 20, 2017). Going forward attorneys will definitely want to know if the FBI disappeared information on Hillary Clinton Email, Crossfire Hurricane, Hunter Biden laptop, and a number of other cases.
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 824 `Help preserve our Republic while we still can by sharing this column.