What if these Texts were indeed purposefully hidden because they ARE the Trump Investigators?

[mr_lebowski]

What if, knowing as I'm sure they did by January 2017 that Trump was a friggin' full-on Money-Laundering Criminal and probable Russian Asset who certainly colluded to win the Election ... the FBI took steps to make it impossible for Trump and his Lapdogs Sessions and Ryan ... to requisition all the texts happening between the investigators by giving them new phones and scuttling the archive system?

I mean ... it would make some sense. All of sudden, THEIR BOSS, Trump is the subject of their investigation. Someone who could absolutely shut it down at any time. Someone with the power to simply wave away the investigation and demand that all evidence against him be handed over to himself.

Then, when they got Mueller ... they didn't have to worry about this anymore.

And the shitweasels Nunes and Gowdy got wind of this, and realized ... their ONLY angle is this 'secret society' bullshit?

BTW, does Congress have the absolute POWER to REQUIRE the FBI to hand over all the Texts between FBI agents, without ANY evidence of some actual WRONGDOING on the part of the Agency?

And if so, has it EVER been done?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. It would be illegal - called spoliation of evidence - and if it had been done,

it would have torpedoed the whole investigation. There's no way the FBI or Mueller would have done anything like that.

[Louis1895]

2. What if there is a national security issue?

Could they get a court order to do so to protect an investigation?

[mr_lebowski]

3. Why would the texts between FBI agents re: investigation be considered 'evidence'?

Evidence of WHAT?

Let me also just say, what we're seeing go down right now with these GOP treason-weasels (Trump and the Congress-critters) is a pretty damn good illustration of exactly WHY ... we need ourselves a 'deep state'. To protect the Nation from the STUPIDITY of the Voters.

[mr_lebowski]

4. Anyways, my point is not 'is it likely' but rather what would HAPPEN if it turned out to be true?

I could see this approach making some sense, given the situation at hand.

Does anyone know ... can Congress, on purely partisan 'lines', simply unilaterally declare, absent any evidence of any actual legal wrong-doing ... that they be provided ALL the archived texts of ALL FBI agents, even those that might be involved in an ongoing investigation of a Political Leader like POTUS ... and FBI MUST comply?

Because if they absolutely CAN ... then this is major flaw in our System of Government, IMHO.