Most surveillance tapes of Secret Service misconduct may have been erased

[FargoGuy]

Source: CBS News

It is possible that the Secret Service erased most of the surveillance videos that could have shed light on the latest incident of Secret Service misconduct, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, tells CBS News.

Chaffetz, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said he was able to watch two videos from around the White House, offering limited views of the incident. However, in a closed-door discussion Tuesday, Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy told Chaffetz that it's the regular policy to destroy surveillance tapes from around the White House after 72 hours.

"I don't think anyone in that room could believe it," Chaffetz told CBS. "That's just a stunning revelation that 72 hours after they make a tape they destroy it? That doesn't make any sense to us."

He added, "If it's regular policy to destroy them after 72 hours, why did they have two of the tapes, and where are the rest of the tapes? And so far the Secret Service has not been able to answer the question."

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/some-surveillance-footage-from-night-of-secret-service-incident-erased/

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I thought they had a new guy in charge.

[EEO]

1. Mickey Mouse

[Jackpine Radical]

2. New guy in charge?

You mean the one who didn't hear about this "incident" for five days?

[DeSwiss]

4. She's at it again......

- When in doubt, you go with the old standards.

[DeSwiss]

3. Not the NSA's copy.

- They should check with them if they need any dups. Of anything.

K&R

[TygrBright]

6. Next up the headline: "Secret Service Panel Clears Secret Service of Misconduct in...

...Secret Service Probe."

::sigh::

wearily,
Bright

[avaistheone1]

7. How convenient!

And what a surprise!!

[blkmusclmachine]

8. If they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear...

[Callmecrazy]

12. Of course they have nothing to hide...

They erased it all!

[mopinko]

9. we better see some heads rolling here.

this shit has already gone too far.
dump these assholes, and let the marine take care of it until they can train up a whole new batch.
scorched earth, god damn it. the president and his family are NOT.FUCKING.SAFE.

[Politicalboi]

10. Is it too much to ask that SS guys NOT drink at ALL?

If you can't handle the job without drinking even off the clock, then you don't belong doing that job. If they smoked weed they would be fired even though it's legal there.

[Nihil]

11. SOP ...

Exactly the same as Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Halliburton, Exxon, ...

It is much better to take a slap on the wrist for destroying the evidence
than to be given a major public kicking as a result of the crimes shown in it.

No surprises there (and no, it doesn't matter who is nominally in charge,
it is a systemic issue that has spread through every facet or every organisation
at every level).