Oh wow, what was in the January 5th secret service texts?

[Solomon]

I can understand wanting to see January 6th as things were happening in real time, but what is it they want to hide about the day before?!!

I shudder to think about it.

[woodsprite]

1. Most likely logistics and plans for Pence. nt

[mucifer]

8. they could be sharing info with the domestic terrorist groups. We probably will never know

[exboyfil]

2. Is that they only requested the 5th and 6th?

or is it that only those specific dates where zapped. One looks a little better than the other (they both smell to high heaven - I like the analogy about a cleaning crew not cleaning a house after a murder has been committed but before forensics processes it). Did the "upgrade" happen before Jan. 20th? If not why didn't Garland issue subpoenas as soon as he took office? We all knew that the Secret Service was acting very strangely.

[Qutzupalotl]

24. I thin it's the latter, which does indeed stink.

Link to tweet

On Jan 11, 2021, I filed a broad #FOIA request w/Secret Service for text messages & other docs related to Jan 6. On Jan 19, Secret Service said it searched & found potentially responsive docs

Sued the agency 2 mos later. Docs should have been preserved secretservice.gov/newsroom/relea…

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Let me put it to you this way:

If Trump couldn't stop the SS from driving him back to the WH, then Pence was just as hapless if he got into a SS car and they drove him to Virginia until Trump was installed.

[BSdetect]

4. You don't hide evidence if you are innocent. Simply not so.

[wyn borkins]

5. Secret Service Agents on Tuesday 5 January 2021

They were simply planning a luncheon for their leader whose leaving...is all

Nothing to see here...move along...move along...nothing to see here...at all

[Solomon]

21. Lol

[kentuck]

6. Do the SS really text that much?

Or do they do most of their communicating by phone and radio?

I think this "text" story might be a diversion to keep the Committee or the DOJ away from their phone messages.

It happened a year and a half ago and we are just now hearing about it? Is that normal?

[LastDemocratInSC]

11. Law enforcement radio messages are recorded.

Even in the small local agencies. It's inexpensive to do and provides vital information. The Secret Service undoubtedly uses the latest secure digital communications which would have recording capabilities.

Text messaging is tedious compared to using a radio. They have those ear pieces and microphones in their sleeves, literally. If they were only texting there was a reason to do so, and not necessarily a good reason.

[kentuck]

18. That is where they should be looking, in my opinion...

...not in the text messages.

It's a distraction for a reason.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

26. They text so their bosses and other agents can't immediately hear what they were up to.

Just like cops, they figure it’s more secure and harder to discover unless you are specifically looking for the texts.

Have you seen some of the shit cops have gotten up to on texts? How many have been busted letting their abusive, fascist, and racist flags fly on text?

Still, nothing beats pulling up driver’s window to driver’s window in a Dunkin Donuts parking lot.

[Ritabert]

7. My guess is where to stash Pence

...once they'd spirited him away.

[Scrivener7]

9. Text messages don't really get erased. But we'll never see these.

[lark]

10. Fucking fire the head of the dept. and every single person that deleted texts.

They are national security threats, every one of them and failed to do their jobs. they put their rw politics above the job and need to be fired yesterday!

[Captain Zero]

12. Oh the guy in charge has gone to SNAPCHAT

Snapchat.
Where deleting messages is a feature.

[lark]

14. There's stlll all the traitorous SS agents in office who MUST be fired.

Every single fucking traitorous rw asshole who deleted texts from those days.

[Dave says]

16. Talk about a slap to the face of America!

I knew he retired and went to SnapChat, but until now I didn’t realize that he went where full erasure is a feature.

[Cracklin Charlie]

13. In the videos of the bomb placer...

Was the bomber seen texting at any point?

That would have been on January 5.

[WiVoter]

20. Wonder If There Is Any Video Of SS Texting?

Hmmm.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

15. We, the jury, may infer the worst from their destruction of evidence.

[Nevilledog]

17. They need to go after records of the agents personal phones.

[kentuck]

19. Agree.

That is where they will find what they are looking for, not in the texts.

[Solomon]

22. If they are a mere diversion, why delete texts on the 5th. Why not just delete the 6th?

[usonian]

23. Waiting for a Russian translator. nt

[H2O Man]

25. Recommended.

The number of those involved in the insurrection who were in law enforcement and the military might hold a clue. It is no surprise that the Secret Service "might" have pro-Trump member. But the degree of corruption -- documented by an active member serving in the administration -- is cause for concern. And the hiding of the January 5th texts would seem part of a larger, dangerous level of corruption.

[Solomon]

27. This is what I think. I am so disgusted. I grew up fully believing that the secret service are

heroes in the sense that politics can never matter to them personally. That they have to put their life on the line for the president no matter what the president's political affiliation.

Now I'm not so sure anymore. One by one, all the institutions I believed in while growing up are falling.

[H2O Man]

28. When I was young,

I remember hearing elders saying, "This isn't the same country I grew up in." And I remember my father, a life-long Democrat, being both surprised and utterly disgusted by the crimes of Nixon -- though he thought Nixon was a crook well before Dick became president.

We've seen plenty of corruption in the decades since then. Iran-Contra. Yellow cake and mushroom bombs. But nothing -- absolutely nothing -- has shaken the foundations of our country like the Trump cult has.