Special counsel questioned witnesses about 2 rooms FBI didn't search inside Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence: Sources

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61. Well the GOP's fixation on "border" is their annual clown show

and the damage from the previous administration's family separation policy is STILL being rectified and it now has a court settlement forbidding the practice for the next 8 years (as of 2 months ago - this past December).

But with respect to DHS and the FBI, the FBI is not under DHS purview and was one of the agencies that remained under DOJ.

Before I retired, my agency was in a shared multi-agency GSA building with agencies from 12 Departments, and I remember post-9/11 and the birth of DHS when they cobbled together agencies from Agriculture (e.g., some from APHIS who worked on plant imports), Treasury (Customs), Immigration (INS), Transportation (creation of TSA), DOE (some of the nuclear-monitoring agencies), FEMA (was included but after the disastrous reign of Skeltor, that lead to FEMA being removed as standalone again), and other standalones like the Secret Service.

But the primary "law enforcement" entities like the FBI, U.S. Marshals, & ATF (as well as Bureau of Prisons) remained under DOJ. The CIA remained standalone but got bundled under an intelligence infrastructure.

I used to interact with (work-wise) and socialize with people from Customs and APHIS in my building and remember their angst when pulled into the unknown. It was such a bizarre thing to witness real-time for as long as it took to create that.

In a nutshell, DHS was the GOP's Frankenstein monster made of disparate parts and pieces to create an unnecessary Department that was filled with BLOAT, easily surpassing in size what they spent decades whining about what HHS had become after HEW was split into a Health Department and an Education Department.

But I will say that the FBI isn't the one to watch, the Secret Service IS and that is under DHS. And there were all kinds of "up close and personal" SS agents with 45 during January 6, and who know about or maybe even participated in all KINDS of shenanigans that day and down in Mar-a-Lago as well.

Remember the mysterious wiped SS text messages?

Given the FBI who went in there probably came out of the Miami Office and FL is a red state, there is that issue, but the more active potential participants to steer people away during any of the interviews at and casing of the facility while 45 was there, would have been the SS and there had to be some kind of agreements between them and the FBI (as it is, at the court appearances, he has SS with him at all times, and that adds the extra hoop-jumps for scheduling, etc).