Secret Service erased text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021 -- after oversight officials asked fo

[herding cats]

Source: ABC

Secret Service erased text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021 -- after oversight officials asked for them, watchdog says

The US Secret Service erased text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021, shortly after they were requested by oversight officials investigating the agency's response to the US Capitol riot, according to a letter given to the House select committee investigating the insurrection and obtained by CNN.

The letter, which was originally sent to the House and Senate Homeland Security Committees by the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General, says the messages were erased from the system as part of a device-replacement program after the watchdog asked the agency for records related to its electronic 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," the letter from DHS IG Joseph Cuffari stated.

"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 added. "This review led to weeks-long delays in OIG obtaining records and created confusion over whether all records had been produced."

Read more: https://www.kten.com/story/46877744/secret-service-erased-text-messages-from-january-5-and-6-2021-after-oversight-officials-asked-for-them-watchdog-says

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[mainer]

1. a few people need to be fired ... and go to jail

I wonder what they wanted to expunge.

[herding cats]

4. Agreed!

I wonder if there's a record of the texts?

[mpcamb]

79. NO! A SHITLOAD of people need to be fired. These people are loyal to TFG, not US!!

[Rebl2]

34. So agree with this

They should NEVER be allowed to do this.

[Joinfortmill]

37. The place they were going to take Pence? Just a guess.

[intheflow]

70. That's a good hypothesis. n/t

[3Hotdogs]

86. More likely, "Ya should'a seen it. The asshole tried to grab the wheel."

[Walleye]

91. 👆We know what Trump really hates is to be laughed at

[JohnSJ]

49. There needs to be a major house cleaning

[Cha]

84. Yes, We'd all like to know.. over 6,000

Texts I read were deleted.

Focus!
Please Fight to Save Our Democracy💙 in 2022 & 2024!

[Tetrachloride]

2. Felony? Legal Eagles, count the ways please

[Irish_Dem]

3. The GOP elite will always be protected. And operate outside the law.

Every single time.

[hedda_foil]

5. Wow!!!!

[sakabatou]

6. Sounds a lot like the missing minutes in Nixon's tapes.

[vanlassie]

54. And the flight control operators on 9-11

[mainer]

7. Someone's gonna squeal

And there must be a way to get these messages back.

[Srkdqltr]

8. That says a lot.

I have been reading that the Secret Service has been less than loyal?? Needs a cleaning.

[leftieNanner]

21. As Soon As Joe Biden

was innaugurated, the Secret Service pulled all of TFG's agents off POTUS duty and brought in people who had worked with Biden when he was VP.

[Srkdqltr]

26. And this erasing happened before Biden took office.

Makes sense.

[Joinfortmill]

38. Yup, It's a mircale Obama made it out alive. God bless him, one of the best.

[Pisces]

9. There's always a way to recover stuff.

[2naSalit]

25. +1

[Calista241]

29. If they were using an iPhone on Verizon's service, yeah, they could recover it

But the SS uses secure phones with encryption and permanent erasure capabilities to avoid the prospect of loss.

[electric_blue68]

83. That's what I figured but what (another) a Seditious move!

[Meadowoak]

95. They can be found on the Government server in Utah.

[Pisces]

97. If we've learned anything about technology it is that nothing is ever erased permanently.

[Meadowoak]

98. +1

[woodsprite]

105. More likely a Russian server, maybe in Trump Tower. nt

[Meadowoak]

106. +1

[FreepFryer]

10. jesus (nt)

[AngryOldDem]

11. Shades of Rose Mary Woods.

I wonder if they’ll demonstrate how this happened, like she did with the Dictaphone?

[riversedge]

12. of my!! Something stinks horribly bad!

[Captain Zero]

13. Yes. All the Trump and Prince security people that were filtered into the SS

during the Trump years.

Smells to high heaven, doesn't it?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

14. Deja Vu all over again.

[Drum]

55. Oy Oy Oy!

-edit to add I am tsk-ing at the subject, not the OP or DUer posting!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

67. Yes she was quite a limber flexible old gal

[Evolve Dammit]

15. Guess every gov't agency was corrupted (IN FOUR YEARS). And DOJ seems to be as well. n/t

[spudspud]

32. That's the million dollar question--to what degree has Trump stinkified the DOJ?

And if so, was it to such a degree that he will not be prosecuted by them?

[Evolve Dammit]

72. It does remain a very big question. Even if it is hampering/ slowing/ mucking or stonewalling

it is an assault on our institutions and those obstructing should be held accountable. Yeah right.

[Meadowoak]

96. Ask good old Ginni, apparently she would bring trump a list of whom to hire and fire

To there weekly lunch date.

[dchill]

39. "Welcome Back, My Friends, to the Coup That Never Ends..."

Courtesy of the GOP crooks who can't be stopped.

[duckworth969]

57. ELP reference, that gave me a chuckle

[Evolve Dammit]

71. sure looks that way. EL&P? I should know this?? And they do appear un-checked....

[dchill]

75. Emerson, Lake and Palmer...

[Evolve Dammit]

76. I wanna go back. Really want to go back. n/t

[dchill]

77. I hear you.

[msfiddlestix]

102. ✔️ n/t

[BlueIdaho]

16. The fish stinks from the head down.

At this point I don’t think there is a single individual member of the Secret Service that is trustworthy and loyal to the constitution of the United States. The whole organization needs to be ripped apart, refreshed and replaced.

[iluvtennis]

17. WTF - isn't this obstruction of justice. n/t

[Old Crank]

18. Jail them all.

There are no excuses for that.

[C_U_L8R]

19. It's the cover up that gets them

Destroying evidence is a crime and everyone in that chain of command better start talking or face consequences.

[ariadne0614]

20. Dear DOJ, This is unacceptable. Do your job. Sincerely, We the People n/t

[dchill]

66. Seems obvious, donut?

[tonekat]

22. Theres a redneck streak in the Uniformed Secret Service

My ex had a niece that was the most immature person for her age I ever met.

She ended up marrying a guy from MD who was one of the uniformed SS members. He has said that the SS didn't give a damn about Obama's safety.

The Treasury Dept. needs to scrub their house and disinfect it.

[OhioTim]

23. Trump

Trump appointed Cuffari

[Lonestarblue]

24. Well, everything Trump touches has corruption attached.

The Secret Service should have been purged during and after the Obama years when someone agents seemed to allow a lower standard of protection for a black president. Now that Trump corrupted a number of them, everyone with whom he came in contact or hired or was a manager over those agents needs a thorough review. I hate to think Biden’s safety being in the hands of a Trump loyalist or the VP’s safety being in the hands of a white supremacist.

[2naSalit]

27. Oh really?

That's a BFD of galactic magnitude.

[paleotn]

28. Destruction of evidence...

All those involved should be fired, prosecuted and incarcerated.

[OhioTim]

30. More on Cuffari

Wikipedia: he received Ph.D. in Management from California Coast University in 2002, an online for-profit university characterized as a "diploma mill" by the Government Accountability Office.[3]

Biden needs to fire this idiot now!

[SergeStorms]

56. I agree.

Before he's fired he needs to be questioned by the FBI. Thoroughly, using "enhanced interrogation" techniques. For days, if not longer.

This is a cover-up of monumental proportions. This could have all sorts of security implications reaching the highest levels of government.

That guy has some serious 'splaining to do.

[SergeStorms]

68. And while they're at it.....

They should question Tony Ornato, the head of Trump's SS detail who was "promoted" to Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, but this time under oath. Several White House Aides have accused Ornato of lying about conversations with Meadows concerning Trump's Lafayette Park photo-op, and about Cassidy Hutchinson's conversation with Secret Service Agents concerning Trump's grabbing the steering wheel of the limo on the way to the White House after his J6 Capitol speech.

This guy sounds like a Trumpanista from the word 'go'. After Trump left the White House he tried to slide right back into the White House SS detail. He was reassigned to a training post outside the White House detail before President-elect Biden took office after Biden’s allies complained that some agents were too close to Trump, according to a December 2020 story in The Washington Post.

There are more than a few people around the White House that I wouldn't trust. Better to be safe than sorry.

[Qutzupalotl]

82. and Ornato is now back in leadership at Secret Service.

What is going on here?

Link to tweet

[Roy Rolling]

31. Obstruction of Justice

There were Secret Service agents among the conspirators. That’s a gigantic revelation—there were traitors among them hoping for personal enrichment and power by sucking up to Trump.

None of these fucking morons has Trump signing their paycheck, do they? No. It’s signed by U.S. Government workers from taxpayer funds.

Fuck these traitors and thieves, too. They’re stealing my money by not doing the job they’re paid to perform.

[Karma13612]

33. That right there is some

F**ked-up $hit.

Is “Device-Replacement Program” a euphemism for swapping out communications equipment. And then they can say “oh, I have a new phone and the old phone was handed back in. I guess they must have cleared out the memory. Sorry. Not Sorry.”

[LiberalLovinLug]

64. The equivalent of low life punks throwing their burners away after a crime spree

[Karma13612]

65. Good analogy!

Being this was “state sanctioned” is just horrendous.

[mgardener]

35. Mike Pence knew something

That's why he would not get in the car with them.

Trump was not removed from the WH while the the Capitol was being attacked.
Why not?

[Drum]

60. Your second point is the most damning, right?

If you think you’re in no danger, you’re not convincingly careful. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[dchill]

36. Seriously fucked up much?

Republicans spoiling the bouillabaisse? One thing is fairly certain: those messages exist somewhere...

[jaxexpat]

40. Pretorians are like that.

Time to readdress their role in things. Reassign their duties. Trump had intended to employ the Proud boys as standins while he invented uniforms for his new bodyguard cadre.

[moniss]

41. Remember this date

because it looks as though the Secret Service knowingly and purposely (important legalese) destroyed evidence they knew had been requested as part of an investigation. This is absolutely huge. Not entirely unexpected if you take a big overview of the way the Orange Ruski and company put their cronies in every nook and cranny in DOJ,DOD,CIA,FBI and no doubt the SS. Those last initials are such a weird coincidence. There will be more disclosure of destruction of evidence to come from others about others. Remember how weird it seemed at the initial hearings about 1/6 last year when we couldn't even get a straight story from the cops, Guard etc. about the phone calls and who knew what and what they did or didn't do with the info they had? The media will likely memory-hole this in a day or so. The IG letter is dated July 13th. That is the same day in 1973 that Alexander Butterfield told the Watergate Committee investigators about the secret taping system at the White House. A weird coincidence on the 49th anniversary of one of the most significant disclosures of that scandal. It was the following Monday on the 16th that Butterfield appeared before the Committee publicly. Let's see what our media does.

If anybody should think that the SS is above all of this I would remind them of recent disclosures of misbehavior over the last decades. Also that when Ted Kennedy was given SS protection while campaigning for McGovern his SS detail included a SS agent who had been Nixon's former bodyguard and the evidence and testimony revealed that Nixon placed him on that detail with orders to spy on Kennedy and report details about Kennedy back to Nixon.

[aggiesal]

42. It feels like everything Pendejo45 touches, turns to crap n/t

[FM123]

47. Yes!

And may I compliment you on your choice of name for that idiot - Pendejo45 is just perfect.

[aggiesal]

61. Thank you, other in this forum are using it as well. n/t

[mountain grammy]

43. Everything associated with trump is rotten

[Hekate]

44. The rot goes deep

🤬🤬🤬

[Leith]

45. Holy shit

This is unthinkable - yet they did it. The orange monster and his cohorts are corrupt criminals.

[BidenRocks]

46. Begin at 1:25

&ab_channel=OkeeBenoukee

Describes these people exactly!

[LiberalArkie]

48. Trump did not bring them in - they were already there. Probably waiting for the opportune time

for another JFK moment.

[Drum]

50. Let's just clean house then...these people aren't irreplaceable,

…nor are they guaranteed loyalty that they won’t reciprocate.

[Wicked Blue]

51. Why erased on those two dates and not Jan. 3, 4, 7, 8 etc?

The texts of the 5th and 6th just happened to be the days selected for device clearing.

Coincidence?
I don't think so.

[Karma13612]

63. +1000 x 1000 ....eom

[Backseat Driver]

52. The SS doesn't have its own automatic cloud achive?

Easy peasy, then: Device replacement? Remove dirty SIM/insert pristine one. Crush and burn the old ones? But, but, but - burners.

JHP - Even my cell providers transferred what was on my phone and I can still access stuff in the cloud.

[CanonRay]

53. Nobody is better at covering their track (asses) that the Secret Service

see Kennedy, John F, Assassination of. But whoever did this need to go to jail.

[duckworth969]

58. Praetorian Guard indeed

[patphil]

59. These are US government records. It's illegal to delete them.

I wonder if the system backup copies were also erased. That would indicate malicious intent.

[bringthePaine]

62. anyone else smell bullshit? so top/bottom audit after dismissals with prejudice

[intheflow]

69. You mean DHS might be covering something up?

Who could have imagined the Bush-Cheney wet dream of a agency would do that?!? 🤪

[Evolve Dammit]

73. Pretty sure that is a fed crime (deleting public records)

[Kid Berwyn]

74. How about that?

An upgrade ate the emails.

Right. Like the time the two video cameras watching Epstein conked out when the guards were asleep on the night Epstein was found dead.

[purr-rat beauty]

78. Obstruction of Justice and Conspiracy sounds about right

lock them up

[ecstatic]

80. qOP lawlessness is completely out of control under Garland's watch

Seriously, WTF is going on? Start locking these motherfuckers up NOW or step down and let someone who will administer justice fairly and equally step in.

[GoodRaisin]

85. The silence is growing deafening. nt

[GoldandSilver]

81. There something seriously wrong with the Secret Service...

The Secret service was regarded as the elite of the elite. The premier unit assigned to protect the lPresident and the Vice President and their families with their lives if necessary. They were to be alert, loyal, and discreet.

What we have had for years is bunch of conceited, sloppy, party boys who can barely keep themselves out of the tabloids.

There’s a longline of appalling sex and alcohol scandals, several complete failures to maintain routine security measures, and now we have partisan politics in the ranks and outright defiance of a records request (demand) from the Inspector General’s office, supposedly resulting in destruction of the requested records.

The Secret Service is in deep and dirty and I hope the January 6 Committee exposes it to the public.

Time for a thorough house cleaning and I doubt Merrick Garland has the stomach for it.

[alterfurz]

87. "No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are...

...what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine." -- William Blum

[ECL213]

88. Am I just wearing a tinfoil hat...

Don't you think someone still has those texts, like the NSA? I would think the communications of those responsible for protecting the President (even a POS like TFG) would have back-ups of back-ups of back-ups.

[dalton99a]

89. Device-replacement program, my ass

Your texts don't disappear when you get a new phone

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

90. All those responsible need to be suspended immediately, pending

further investigation.

[keithbvadu2]

92. What needs to be kept so secret, Secret Service?

[AdamGG]

93. Dick Cheney did this when his email records were subpoenead

They all got deleted. And there were never any consequences for it.

[1WorldHope]

94. Are these the guys we are still paying to protect his pathetic ass?

Are we not still paying USSS to protect TFG and his freaking children?

[Martin68]

99. Is there any way to recover these texts, from a phone or a server?

[orleans]

100. bookmarking. k&r nt

[Quanto Magnus]

101. Any SS involved in this

needs to be fired and put in jail for a long time.

[cab67]

103. is it possible to recover some or all of these texts?

honest question.

[BComplex]

104. This infuriates me. I'm so SO sick of the sickos doing this to our government.

This is on fux nooz. They make the sickos feel so friggin' entitled to their disdain for our country and our government.