RT Jason Leopold (@JasonLeopold)NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out!FOIA Files:On April 1, the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel publicly released a bombshell 52-page opinion. It said that the Presidential Records Act is “unconstitutional” and that President Donald Trump “need not further comply with its dictates.”Just a few days earlier, I received another set of documents from the FBI about the probe into Trump’s improper retention of presidential and classified records after he left the White House in 2021.Alth ...

RT The Megyn Kelly Show (@MegynKellyShow)Why was Jeffrey Epstein FOIA'ing the CIA in 1999?Megyn is joined by @MikeBenzCyber to explain 👇 https://t.co/89mTGXvFtM ...

5. This dispute between Epstein and the State Department was settled in 1999. That very year, in 1999, he FOIA'd the CIA for all open and acknowledged Agency links there were between the CIA and himself.https://t.co/8oEfnmUsmB https://t.co/nh3R5GbEPrMike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber):In 1999, Jeffrey Epstein anonymously FOIA'd the CIA to obtain all CIA records "that might reflect an open or otherwise acknowledged Agency affiliation" between himself and the CIA. In 2011, he wrote again to see if CIA had acknowledged ...

Great news! The good folks at @theblackvault (they run what I think is the largest online archive of declassified docs in the world) just fired FOIAs at CIA for Epstein's CIA records requests in 1999 and 2011. Any CIA delay, obstruction or run-around will be a major scandal.Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber):LET'S FUCKING GOOO 🔥🔥🔥 https://t.co/xkatEgU0bb ...

CIA reference file number P-1999-02450 for Epstein’s 1999 FOIA and CIA reference file P-2011-00673 for Epstein's 2011 FOIAMike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber):3) First, I must point out this is an exceptionally interesting file in part because it is actionable. It discloses two CIA file reference numbers, Epstein's 1999 request for CIA records about himself (P-1999-02450) and Epstein's later 2011 request (P-2011-00673) https://t.co/9KIFcRziWa ...

This is an important thread that shows how Y-O-U (yes you!) can force the CIA to turn over critical Epstein files it's holding.Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber):8) In theory, anyone right now could just FOIA the CIA for all records & correspondence related to reference numbers P-1999-02450 & P-2011-00673. In theory, the CIA would have to turn those Epstein files over immediately. We know the files exist. We know they're not classified. https://t.co/2yaWfcGB8F ...

25) Now, the question is, what brave soul will FOIA the CIA for all records and correspondence pertaining to reference file numbers P-1999-02450 and P-2011-00673? ...

22) As I stared at this part of the CIA's response to Epstein's lawyers, I asked myself: "Why would a billionaire's highly paid lawyer do something so stupid as to directly ask the CIA for classified info in a FOIA? Of course you can't. Everyone knows the CIA's not allowed." https://t.co/j17H7b8EBT ...

16) One reading is Epstein repeatedly FOIA'd the CIA to keep checking if they'd publicly disclosed any links with him, so he could decide what he could credibly tell his colleagues going forward & know what info might be easily discoverable by foreign counterintelligence organs ...

14) Third, given Epstein's CIA adjacency by the late 1970s & throughout the 80s, it's quite possible Epstein originally FOIA'd the CIA for records about himself in the 1980s, and his 1999 FOIA simply re-ran his earlier 1980s request. In that case, we'd (you'd) get all that info. ...