... We know from news reports that Trump's name was in the Epstein files. But what hasn't been reported is that an FBI FOIA team redacted Trump's name"and the names of other prominent public figures"from the documents, according to three people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to speak with the media.
That team, tasked with conducting a final review of the voluminous cache, had applied the redactions before the DOJ and the FBI concluded last month that "no further disclosure" of the files "would be appropriate or warranted."
From the government's perspective, Trump was a private citizen when the Epstein investigation took place and therefore is entitled to privacy protections. ...
Trump's name blacked out
What happened next kicked off a new phase in the Epstein saga. As I reported in the March 28th edition of FOIA Files, Patel directed FBI special agents from the New York and Washington field offices to join the bureau's FOIA employees at its sprawling Central Records Complex in Winchester, Virginia and another building a few miles away.
They were instructed to search for and review every single Epstein-related document and determine what could be released. That included a mountain of material accumulated by the FBI over nearly two decades, including grand jury testimony, prosecutors' case files, as well as tens of thousands of pages of the bureau's own investigative files on Epstein. It was a herculean task that involved as many as 1,000 FBI agents and other personnel pulling all-nighters while poring through more than 100,000 documents, according to a July letter from Senator Dick Durbin to Bondi. ...
OK, so it seems that ICE does not accept a Real ID or a birth certificate as prooof of being an American citizen.
My question becomes: what is accepted?
A white skin color?