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highplainsdem

(58,665 posts) Tue Oct 7, 2025, 10:58 PM Oct 7

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FBI employees ordered to immediately search for records related to Amelia Earhart, sources say [View all]

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 [View all] highplainsdem Oct 7 OP

Can we also add the Epstein files to this search Aviation Pro Oct 7 #1

Knock-knock... JoseBalow Oct 7 #2

This is just weird. SSJVegeta Oct 7 #3

"Hey, look over there!" LudwigPastorius Oct 7 #4

How is that fighting crime or protecting the country? tanyev Oct 7 #5

Whimsical gods PATRICK Oct 7 #6

What's next, boonecreek Oct 7 #7

Ha...good one! Ya know thou..If his pea brain is focused on that, it might give us a few days reprieve PortTack Oct 8 #18

Next will be The Madcap Oct 7 #8

Um lonely bird Oct 7 #9

Not the Onion? And while they're at it, can they look for records relating to Judge Crater? Ocelot II Oct 7 #10

...wait... CosmicSloth Oct 7 #11

Epstein, Epstein, Epstein .... ificandream Oct 7 #12

There is an expidition to Nikumaroro in the South Pacific in November 2025 planned. hadEnuf Oct 7 #13

The FBI employees were given a priority deadline of Wednesday to release govt records related to Earhart. Is this in2herbs Oct 7 #14

I hope they're searching for boxes in the restrooms in the Justice Department building's basement.. Princess Turandot Oct 7 #15

Al Capone's vault, too. Talitha Oct 8 #28

Earhart. area51 Oct 8 #16

Nice try. johnp3907 Oct 8 #17

LOL! Bayard Oct 8 #20

Maybe Julius Seizure thinks solving this mystery Hassler Oct 8 #19

Geez, does anyone really care? Figarosmom Oct 8 #21

MAGA thinks her plane was shot down... Old Testament Libera Oct 8 #22

Spelled Epstein wrong again, for the Epsteinst time truthisfreedom Oct 8 #23

The U.S. is beginning to sound like The Caine Mutiny. C Moon Oct 8 #24

This smells like desperation! Aussie105 Oct 8 #25

What about me? Jimmy Hoffa. twodogsbarking Oct 8 #26

Eric Idle? John Cleese? Are you there? RazorbackExpat Oct 8 #27

Thank God our national crime problem is a thing of the past. Paladin Oct 8 #29

He needs to be removed from office. This is on you, GOP. travelingthrulife Oct 8 #30

Must have distraction, now. republianmushroom Oct 8 #31

It's underneath the folder marked "EPSTEIN" durablend Oct 8 #32

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