Posted on 07/14/2022 4:07:19 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
*It's still unclear if the messages were deleted intentionally or by accident.*
The Secret Service deleted text messages from Jan. 5 and 6, 2021, after an internal watchdog requested them as part of a review of the department’s handling of last year’s Capitol riot, the watchdog said this week.
A letter sent Wednesday by the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General to the heads of the House and Senate Homeland Security Committees, which was obtained by ABC News, said the messages were deleted “as part of a device-replacement program” despite the inspector general requesting such communications.
"First, the Department notified us that many US Secret Service text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021, were erased as part of a device-replacement program. The USSS erased those text messages after OIG requested records of electronic communications from the USSS, as part of our evaluation of events at the Capitol on January 6," Joseph Cuffari, the inspector general, wrote.
"Second, DHS personnel have repeatedly told OIG inspectors that they were not permitted to provide records directly to OIG and that such records had to first undergo review by DHS attorneys," Cuffari wrote. "This review led to weeks-long delays in OIG obtaining records and created confusion over whether all records had been produced."
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One thing I have learned from watching hundreds of hours of crime shows, Nothing is EVER DELETED. They can be retrieved.
Yes, that’s true. It all depends on how much effort someone wants to put into it.
Totally unacceptable! On whose orders were they erased? Heads had better roll for this! 🤬
“Heads had better roll for this!”
LOL! (Nothing will happen.)
It’s still unclear if the messages were deleted intentionally or by accident.
Ask Andrew Weismann.
“*It’s still unclear if the messages were deleted intentionally or by accident.*”
Easy - Epstein deleted them.
Lawless bastards
You never know when something will help you instead of hurt you.
“You mean, like, with a cloth?”
“Would you believe a hammer?”
Nothing will happen. They were just “accidentally” deleted.
Generally the cover-up is worse than the crime. I think it’s time to investigate everything that happened before and after January 6. Where is Nancy Pelosi‘s emails and text messages regarding law enforcement preparation‘s for January 6
Mistakes were made ping.
By Lois Lerner’s Many Hard Drives!
Methinks they cannot be trusted....
Exactly. My wife has contacted our carrier and got pages of texts. This is a narrative for the dumbest.
Obviously by accident. Because that’s what they do.
The response is always: “no evidence exists of any wrongdoing”, i.e., BleachBit, etc. destroying the facts, and then claiming that “it’s a conspiracy theory, and has never been proven, and no EVIDENCE has been presented”..........ROFL
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