Probe widens into federal watchdog over missing Jan. 6 Secret Service texts

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The procedural background to this investigation is confusing and I will try to explain. The Office of Inspector General Joseph V. Cuffari, an appointee of President Donald Trump shut down an inquiry into the Secret Service messages last year. Another group of Inspector Generals have started their own investigation and Cuffari has sued to block this investigation. In that lawsuit, Cuffari is complaining about the investigation into deleted Secret Services text messages and that he has to pay his own legal fees. Cuffari is a TFG asshole who is not happy that his attempts to hide the facts is being questioned.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/06/homeland-security-watchdog-secret-service-texts/

A nearly two-year investigation into allegations of misconduct by the Department of Homeland Security’s chief watchdog expanded this week to include his role in missing Secret Service text messages from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

On Monday, investigators demanded records related to the deleted texts from the Office of Inspector General Joseph V. Cuffari, an appointee of President Donald Trump whose office shut down an inquiry into the Secret Service messages last year amid the House’s probe of the insurrection.

The records request, which was revealed in a federal lawsuit this week filed by Cuffari and his staff against the panel of inspectors leading the probe, suggests new urgency in a high-profile investigation that began in May 2021 and has since evolved into a wide-ranging inquiry into dozens of allegations of misconduct, including partisan decision-making, investigative failures and retaliation against whistleblowers.....

Cuffari’s 173-page complaint filed this week in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia discloses that investigators from CIGIE’s Integrity Committee recently told Cuffari and Fredericks that “alleged deletions of the U.S. Secret Service text messages which referenced the events of January 6, 2021” are a new subject of their probe. The lawsuit denies that any official in the inspector general’s office “has any control over the Secret Service or over where texts by members of that organization go.”

The complaint alleges broadly that investigators from the office of Department of Transportation Inspector General Eric Soskin, which is conducting the probe, have harassed Cuffari and his staff to respond to requests for document and other information.

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2. Jeebus. A "government watchdog" doesn't like being watched by another "government watchdog".

Who would have guessed? Anybody remember "the best and the brightest" from the Kennedy era? Trump really was successful in burdening us with idiots and cronies.

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3. The infection by traitortrump and the Gangsters Of Putin is active.