Thought the OIG said when they got around to examine them they weren’t there.
“Thought the OIG said when they got around to examine them they weren’t there.”
That is what I thought. The FBI did not give the IG all that they thought they got.
They have them. We know that ‘strategic disinformation” is often key to protecting ongoing investigations. Do not take everything you hear literally (yes, I know this is FR and that is an impossible request) but this is a war and in wartime people like, cheat, fake, deceive, and spread propaganda to confuse or injure the enemy.
If by some unfortunate turn of events the OIG doesn’t have them, then the carriers do, the NSA does, and a forensic analysis of the FBI servers and devices might turn them up as well. The FBI statement is like when a kid says “I can’t find my library book”. You tell them to go look harder and don’t come back until they have it.
They always had these. Many times over.
Fleeting electrons got away...
The dog ate the cell phone.
I do NOT believe any of this nonsense.
“Thought the OIG said when they got around to examine them they weren’t there.”
That’s the narrative, but how could it be true? Horowitz’s letter dated December 13, 2017 says the OIG received the messages on August 10, 2017. Are we supposed to believe that the OIG urgently requested the messages for a 209 day period, received messages for only 55 days, yet no one had time to notice in FOUR MONTHS?
Seems unlikely that Horowitz would notify Congress that he had texts he KNEW he couldn’t produce if asked to. He knows who in his office was handling this, and hopefully has them tied to the whipping post right now.
“Thought the OIG said when tbey got around to examine them they weren’t there”.
The OIG states in his letter, the additional texts (covering the “missing” time frame) were received on August 10, 2017. His letter is dated December 13, 2017 - four (4) months later.
I find it hard to believe he sat on those texts for four solid months before discovering “they arent there”.