FBI Ran Secret Surveillance on Kash Patel, Tried to Cover Their Tracks [WATCH]

Journalist John Solomon said newly uncovered information suggests the FBI maintained hidden investigative files targeting individuals close to President Donald Trump during the tenure of former FBI Director Christopher Wray, raising concerns about potential civil liberties violations.

Solomon made the remarks during a discussion with commentator Benny Johnson, where the two examined reports that certain politically sensitive investigations were placed into restricted systems rather than the FBI’s standard case management database.

Johnson opened the conversation by questioning reports that FBI Director Kash Patel did not initially have access to the records.

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“Line in the lead here, John, that is the most alarming to me is that Kash Patel doesn’t have access to these files, or that they have been scattered to the wind,” Johnson said.

“You know, I was under the hilariously naive, sweet summer child impression here, John, that the FBI director would know what’s going on at the FBI, but that’s turned out to be fundamentally foundationally untrue. So what do you mean when you write here that he that prohibited access kept the FBI from learning about the FBI?”

Solomon responded by explaining how certain investigations were handled differently from normal FBI cases.

“So in these politically sensitive investigations where we now know they were targeting people close to the president, lawyers, like people around the president, were lawyers advising him, advisors, movie makers, journalists,” Solomon said.

“They’re all considered especially special circumstances subjects, meaning they’re supposed to get a higher degree of review before any investigation occurred.”

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According to Solomon, those investigations were placed into a special classification system rather than the FBI’s primary case management platform known as Sentinel.

“What really happened, particularly during the Chris Ray era of the FBI, is that they declared these cases prohibited access files, meaning they’re not put into the normal case file system called Sentinel, where the FBI keeps all of its cases,” Solomon said.

Solomon said that under normal circumstances, the FBI director could easily search the system to identify any existing cases.

“And you know where a director should be able to go in and say, hey, I want to know everything about John Solomon and round River, and it should just pop up,” Solomon said.

Instead, Solomon said these investigations were stored separately in classified environments.

“But in fact, they created these cutouts from the system, and they were kept in skiffs, and they were hidden from public view,” Solomon said.

He added that future FBI leadership might not even be aware of the existence of such files unless someone inside the bureau reported them.

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