Just like the Nixon tapes' missing 18-1/2 minutes was a subscandal of Watergate. The more things start disappearing, the more attention is brought to the main scandal.

We will see!

“It’s not the crime. It’s the cover-up.”

be a logical assumption but as I have pointed out in a different post a few days back "the files" do not necessarily mean all documents and information of all kinds in possession of members within the agency. Once a document is placed into a file it is now considered to be a part of the file. For example if an informant hands an agent a slip of paper with some names and dates written on it but the agent never produces a report of the piece of paper and places that report in the file it is not a part of the file and so when people ask for "the files" it never means you have everything. As I pointed out lawyers are wise to this in FOIA cases, legal cases for damages etc. and they will be quite expansive and thorough in describing the categories of materials they seek rather than just asking for "the files".

Environmental case files, for example, in crooked jurisdictions will often contain little of the real information of what the situation is and is known. Deniability, limiting liability and limiting responsibility of those in the environmental agency and companies is the aim of such practices. It goes on with other matters as well such as foster care, safety inspections, building inspections etc.

Not literally, but the FBI and his DOJ raided Epstein's safe about 2 seconds after he was arrested. And later in the process Barr would say OH, yeah, there's no evidence of any client list.

Right

before they got to it and once they did it "no longer existed".

I don't think the docs introduced into the court case included ANY of the hundreds of videotapes, CDs, etc. scooped up by the FBI in its sweep of Epstein's mansions immediately following his death –– or do they?

announcement that only now is his secluded property in New Mexico being searched it shows how purposely selective the investigations have been. Most reasonable people would think that all of his properties should have been searched around the world and in short order.

One of the things that our elected Dems need to demand in the hearings is an explanation of how the FBI filing system works, are file access logs kept for files taken and returned? Since the time that Bondi and Patel claimed "there's nothing there" how many times have the files been accessed, by whom and what files have not been returned and who checked out those files and when?

But if one Bates number itself is deleted,would all the rest need to be changed upon deletion of said Bates number?
Or,if deleted more than once,wouldn't all subsequent page numbers also required to be changed?
Rather like a domino effec?

A Bates master

Never mind. Too easy.

And this would involve some self-abuse of the files. But seriously, the massive amount of lies by omission coming from this regime and its legal representatives scoffs at "Candor To The Tribunal" as a professional duty required by lawyers--essentially an oath they take not to lie. Many must be sanctioned by state bar associations and investigated for possible disbarment for being parties to evidence tampering.

I was going to do a riff on Bates No- tell HOtell...

It's not like the old days when they actually used a Bates stamper to physically put numbers on hard copies of documents.





BUT, many of these documents are out there and have been seen by many people after years of litigation. If specific docs coming out of DOJ suddenly have different Bates numbers than they did previously, we will know they are tampering with docs.