Two reasons to doubt the analysts who speculate Mueller might have "hidden" the Cohen SARS reports
perhaps behind some "wall" in the database, as a way of keeping them safe:
First, the whistleblower himself (or herself )-- a law enforcement official -- doesn't believe Mueller is "protecting" the missing files. That's why the whistleblower risked 5 years in prison to put the records out in public. He or she is terrified that someone is whitewashing the files.
Second, because these files couldn't be located, Maxine Waters and anyone else in Congress who had the right to see them is unable to do so. (She made an official request to see them in January.) I can't imagine Mueller deliberately prevented Congress from doing its oversight, without explaining to them why he would need to prevent them from reviewing the SARS reports.
The analysts who speculated that Mueller was responsible for this seemed to think that any other possibility -- for example, the the idea that someone, to use Waters word, "scrubbed" the database -- was too horrifying to imagine. When will the media and "experts" stop being shocked at the things DT is capable of?
Who doesn't think that, if the records are inexplicably missing, Russian or other hackers might be responsible? Or maybe a corrupt or traitorous American working for Cohen and/or DT.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/whistleblower-leaked-damning-cohen-financial-documents-because-they-were-disappearing-from-government-financial-crimes-database.html
The New Yorker’s source continued: “I have never seen something pulled off the system… .
That system is a safeguard for the bank. It’s a stockpile of information. When something’s not there that should be, I immediately became concerned.” The official added, “That’s why I came forward.”
“Some speculated that FINCEN may have restricted access to the reports due to the sensitivity of their content, which they said would be nearly unprecedented. One called the possibility ‘explosive,’” former government officials told the New Yorker. “Nevertheless, a former prosecutor who spent years working with the FINCEN database said that she knew of no mechanism for restricting access to SARS.” The disclosed SARS filed by First Republic Bank with the Treasury Department covered a million dollars in transactions made by Cohen between September of 2017 and January of 2018. “The first report that the official was unable to locate, which covered almost seven months, appears to have listed a little over a million dollars in activity,” the New Yorker reports. “The second report that the official was unable to locate, which investigated a three-month period between June and September of 2017, found suspect transfers totaling more than two million dollars.” Other banks also filed SARS based on Cohen’s financial activity that had all the indications of illegal activity: from money laundering to “bribery or gratuity” and “suspicious use of third-party transactors (straw-man).”
The financial warning signs were there and the suspicious-activity reports appeared to have done their job in flagging potentially illicit activity. This is not an uncommon occurrence in the world of white collar crime and intricate financial investigations; its proximity to the president, however, is unique. That proximity, it appears, prompted the whistleblower to act and disclose the remaining financial documents for fear that Cohen’s potential financial crimes were in the process of being scrubbed from the system, whitewashed from the record. The disclosure carries with it the possibility of up to five years in prison and a significant fine, but the official, knowing the potential consequences, decided it was a risk worth taking.
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