First on CNN: Secret Service identified potential missing text messages on phones of 10 individuals

[BigBearJohn]

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Source: CNN

(CNN)Secret Service investigators were scrutinizing the phones of 10 Secret Service personnel that contained metadata showing text messages were sent and received around January 6, 2021, but were not retained, two sources told CNN.

The scrutiny came after the Department of Homeland Security inspector general asked for the text records last year of 24 individuals at the Secret Service who were involved in January 6, but only one text had been produced. After the issue spilled into public view this month, the inspector general launched a criminal investigation into the matter, and lawmakers demanded answers from the Secret Service to go back and find out what happened to the texts that may have been deleted.

But the Secret Service's internal investigation ground to a halt after a July 20 letter from the DHS inspector general informed the agency there was an ongoing criminal investigation, directing the Secret Service to stop its own probe.

Investigators had been working to determine whether the content of the text messages sent by the 10 personnel contained relevant information that should have been preserved, the sources said. Among the 24 Secret Service personnel under scrutiny, 10 other Secret Service personnel had no text messages, and three had only personal records, according to the sources.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/22/politics/secret-service-investigators-text-messages/index.html

[NullTuples]

1. So, would these be the old phones or the new ones?

I'm still going with their "part of a normal replacement" blah blah blah.

Were the messages found on the old phones? Or on the new ones that ostensibly had everything transferred to them?

[C Moon]

2. Yeah, I believe them. :/

[Roy Rolling]

3. The Most Disturbing Revelation

The elite guards of the president are loyal to him and not the citizenry.

May I remind them and TFG they’re spending my taxpayer money to be employees. Employees must advance the goals of the organization.

Imaging trying to fire the manager of a car dealership but the employees around him/her stage a coup instead of accepting a personnel change.

Republicans talk a good game about business principles, but seldom follow them when push comes to shove—literally. Republican traitor employees tried take over the company instead.

[True Blue American]

4. This criminal investigation

Will carry more weight. Allow experts to use any device they need to bring out the deleted messages.

I do not believe for one minute they can not. They had people in the WhiteHouse putting torn up papers together. Even shredded ones. Not sure how they handled the clogged up toilets!

[2naSalit]

5. +1

[Omaha Steve]

6. After a review by forum hosts....LOCKING

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