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highplainsdem

(58,621 posts)
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 10:58 PM Tuesday

FBI employees ordered to immediately search for records related to Amelia Earhart, sources say

Source: CNN

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, and New York to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, two law enforcement sources told CNN.

Employees in the FBI’s DC and New York field offices received a highly unusual message from their leadership flagged with high importance late Tuesday telling them: “Per a priority request from the Executive Office of the President of the United States, please search any areas where papers or physical media records may be stored, to include both open or closed cases, for records responsive to Amelia Earhart.”

FBI employees were given a priority deadline of Wednesday to respond to the request, which comes on the seventh day of an ongoing federal government shutdown.

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President Donald Trump last month said he was directing his administration to “declassify and release all government records” related to Earhart.

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Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/07/politics/amelia-earhart-fbi-employees-record-search

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FBI employees ordered to immediately search for records related to Amelia Earhart, sources say (Original Post) highplainsdem Tuesday OP
Can we also add the Epstein files to this search Aviation Pro Tuesday #1
Knock-knock... JoseBalow Tuesday #2
This is just weird. SSJVegeta Tuesday #3
"Hey, look over there!" LudwigPastorius Tuesday #4
How is that fighting crime or protecting the country? tanyev Tuesday #5
Whimsical gods PATRICK Tuesday #6
What's next, boonecreek Tuesday #7
Ha...good one! Ya know thou..If his pea brain is focused on that, it might give us a few days reprieve PortTack Wednesday #18
Next will be The Madcap Tuesday #8
Um lonely bird Tuesday #9
Not the Onion? And while they're at it, can they look for records relating to Judge Crater? Ocelot II Tuesday #10
...wait... CosmicSloth Tuesday #11
Epstein, Epstein, Epstein .... ificandream Tuesday #12
There is an expidition to Nikumaroro in the South Pacific in November 2025 planned. hadEnuf Tuesday #13
The FBI employees were given a priority deadline of Wednesday to release govt records related to Earhart. Is this in2herbs Tuesday #14
I hope they're searching for boxes in the restrooms in the Justice Department building's basement.. Princess Turandot Tuesday #15
Al Capone's vault, too. Talitha Wednesday #28
Earhart. area51 Wednesday #16
Nice try. johnp3907 Wednesday #17
LOL! Bayard Wednesday #20
Maybe Julius Seizure thinks solving this mystery Hassler Wednesday #19
Geez, does anyone really care? Figarosmom Wednesday #21
MAGA thinks her plane was shot down... Old Testament Libera Wednesday #22
Spelled Epstein wrong again, for the Epsteinst time truthisfreedom Wednesday #23
The U.S. is beginning to sound like The Caine Mutiny. C Moon Wednesday #24
This smells like desperation! Aussie105 Wednesday #25
What about me? Jimmy Hoffa. twodogsbarking Wednesday #26
Eric Idle? John Cleese? Are you there? RazorbackExpat Wednesday #27
Thank God our national crime problem is a thing of the past. Paladin Wednesday #29
He needs to be removed from office. This is on you, GOP. travelingthrulife Wednesday #30
Must have distraction, now. republianmushroom Wednesday #31
It's underneath the folder marked "EPSTEIN" durablend Wednesday #32

PATRICK

(12,309 posts)
6. Whimsical gods
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 11:07 PM
Tuesday

So what is Stephen Miller doing behind his back so that they let the old man loose on some trivia pursuit using the entire strength of the US?

PortTack

(35,765 posts)
18. Ha...good one! Ya know thou..If his pea brain is focused on that, it might give us a few days reprieve
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 12:35 AM
Wednesday

The Madcap

(1,522 posts)
8. Next will be
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 11:12 PM
Tuesday

A massive hunt for the real origin of the Black Death or maybe the Ark of the Covenant. Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster? Elvis? He could bury the Epstein Files in King Tut's tomb.

lonely bird

(2,573 posts)
9. Um
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 11:13 PM
Tuesday

Not possible to care less about what happened to her.

This is a distraction, nothing more, nothing less.

CosmicSloth

(15 posts)
11. ...wait...
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 11:17 PM
Tuesday

...didn't Caligula declare war on Neptune? Are we at that juncture?

The Epstein files must be really interesting damaging, or perhaps it is time to call in the butterfly net brigade.

ificandream

(11,446 posts)
12. Epstein, Epstein, Epstein ....
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 11:20 PM
Tuesday

Dumb Donald gotta give the maga doogies something else to think about.

hadEnuf

(3,425 posts)
13. There is an expidition to Nikumaroro in the South Pacific in November 2025 planned.
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 11:32 PM
Tuesday

They want to identify a satellite anomaly in the water that they think might be some wreckage from her plane. The theory is she may have emergency landed there while lost in 1937.

Maybe Trump wants to claim he finally found Amelia Earhart? Maybe Hoffa is next?

Anything to distract from Epstein.

in2herbs

(3,993 posts)
14. The FBI employees were given a priority deadline of Wednesday to release govt records related to Earhart. Is this
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 11:39 PM
Tuesday

the same Wednesday the Epstein survivors will be in Washington DC?

F45 must not have been able to establish another fly over to interrupt the Epstein survivors appearance in DC.

Coincidence?? I think not.

Princess Turandot

(4,888 posts)
15. I hope they're searching for boxes in the restrooms in the Justice Department building's basement..
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 11:59 PM
Tuesday

The FBI was located in the DoJ building from its establishment in 1908 as the Bureau of Investigation, until it moved to its own building in 1975.

Earhart went missing in 1937, and was declared dead in 1939. The US Navy and Coast Guard searched for them for more than two weeks.

A short Pathe newsreel detailing her 1937 disappearance: it's a webm file so DU won't embed it, but it should open in a browser.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Amelia_Earhart_Disappears_%281937%29.webm

Perhaps Felony47 will next release the Jimmy Hoffa files. And the Bigfoot surveillance tapes.

Figarosmom

(9,080 posts)
21. Geez, does anyone really care?
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 01:45 AM
Wednesday

So what if she was a spy a.nd maybe got shot down or may have been living a quite life somewhere. What's the point?



Epstein.

22. MAGA thinks her plane was shot down...
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 02:53 AM
Wednesday

...by ANTIFA! Time to prosecute and lock up some people who are already dead!

truthisfreedom

(23,483 posts)
23. Spelled Epstein wrong again, for the Epsteinst time
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 03:07 AM
Wednesday

At some point they have to start wondering about this nutter. Right? Hello?

Aussie105

(7,294 posts)
25. This smells like desperation!
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 03:49 AM
Wednesday

Desperation, mingled with wet smelly diaper and a fear of the Big House.

It's not a mystery.

Amelia's plane went down over the ocean somewhere.
Not the first, not the last to do so.

RIP Amelia, but for crying out loud, Donald! Your desperation is out in the open for all to see.
Be a man!
The EPSTEIN FILES!!!! RELEASE THEM!!!! NOW!


Paladin

(31,772 posts)
29. Thank God our national crime problem is a thing of the past.
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 08:56 AM
Wednesday

Laughable and pathetic. Speaks volumes about trump's "thinking" at this point---that he would actually believe this is an effective Epstein dodge. Like I keep saying: he's handing the country back to us. All we need is forceful, effective, non-stop action by Democratic leadership.

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