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New Jersey U.S. Attorney Alina Habba delivers a major update on the Jeffrey Epstein criminal case, revealing that investigators are meticulously reviewing flight logs to determine who was on the island—without making assumptions. To those demanding immediate arrests, Habba urges patience, explaining that the process requires thorough evidence review to ensure accountability is achieved properly. She vows they will handle it the right way.

One of FISA's dirty secrets that GOP Leadership never wants to talk about: The FBI is the only intelligence agency with Section 702 querying procedures that allow for searches that are reasonably likely to retrieve evidence of a crime. The FBI misused this power in their Jan 6th investigations. A FISA Court ruling from 2022 noted that across the FBI, there have been queries of raw or unredacted FISA information “without a factual basis to believe the search was likely to return either foreign intelligence information or evidence of a crime.” In one instance, an FBI analyst ran thousands of “queries of individuals suspected of involvement in the January 6th 2021 Capital breach.” In another violation, an FBI official ran “approximately 23,132 separate queries” regarding the January 6th events. The FBI claimed that they viewed the situation “as a threat to National Security” as justification for the searches. But the NSD disagreed, concluding that these searches by the FBI were illegal.