Elizabeth Warren Presses X To Find 25,000 Tweets Deleted By Trump Nominee
Source: Huff Post
Feb 27, 2025, 06:00 AM EST
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wants to know what happened to 25,000 tweets that a key Donald Trump nominee deleted soon after the 2024 election, and she on Wednesday wrote a letter to X CEO Linda Yaccarino requesting those records.
Bill Pulte, an investor whose grandfather founded PulteGroup and made it a housing construction empire, is President Trump’s nominee to serve as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which regulates trillions of dollars in the housing finance system. The self-proclaimed “inventor of Twitter philanthropy” also deleted about 25,000 tweets a few days after the 2024 presidential election.
“My staff discovered that virtually all of Mr. Pulte’s tweets are missing and appear to have been deleted,” Warren, the ranking member of the Senate banking committee, wrote to Yaccarino, according to a copy of the letter shared with HuffPost. “Mr. Pulte’s account appears to have been purged of virtually all of his social media activity on your platform.”
Warren told Yaccarino that she was writing “to seek your assistance in gathering previously public information about Mr. Pulte that he appears to have deleted and is now hidden from the public.” Pulte is scheduled to appear before the banking committee for a confirmation hearing Thursday morning.
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Link to Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee Democrats' PRESS RELEASE - Warren Seeks FHFA Nominee Bill Pulte’s Deleted Social Media Posts Ahead of Nomination Hearing
Link to Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee Democrats' LETTER (PDF) - https://ct.symplicity.com/t/wrn/7cce826bf2077ac4f62f4c784fabd510/2086253964/realurl=https:/www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/lettertoxrepulte.pdf
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They're working too hard and doing too great of a job.
for appointees - ALL of that stuff is potential material for review. 
There's a little thing called a "subpoena". 
At one time, there was an ugly battle between the government and Apple regarding unlocking phones for LEO and having some "backdoor" code installed.
In fact, seems the UK has such a case going right now -
Updated February 7, 2025
By Joseph Menn
Security officials in the United Kingdom have demanded that Apple create a back door allowing them to retrieve all the content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded to the cloud, people familiar with the matter told The Washington Post.
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The British government’s undisclosed order, issued last month, requires blanket capability to view fully encrypted material, not merely assistance in cracking a specific account, and has no known precedent in major democracies. Its application would mark a significant defeat for tech companies in their decades-long battle to avoid being wielded as government tools against their users, the people said, speaking under the condition of anonymity to discuss legally and politically sensitive issues.
Rather than break the security promises it made to its users everywhere, Apple is likely to stop offering encrypted storage in the U.K., the people said. Yet that concession would not fulfill the U.K. demand for backdoor access to the service in other countries, including the United States.
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This was sort of the trigger case from almost 10 years ago -
By Katie Benner and Eric Lichtblau
March 28, 2016
SAN FRANCISCO — The Justice Department said on Monday that it had found a way to unlock an iPhone without help from Apple, allowing the agency to withdraw its legal effort to compel the tech company to assist in a mass-shooting investigation.
The decision to drop the case — which involved demanding Apple’s help to open an iPhone used by Syed Rizwan Farook, a gunman in the December shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., that killed 14 people — ends a legal standoff between the government and the world’s most valuable public company. The case had become increasingly contentious as Apple refused to help the authorities, inciting a debate about whether privacy or security was more important.
Yet law enforcement’s ability to now unlock an iPhone through an alternative method raises new uncertainties, including questions about the strength of security in Apple devices. The development also creates potential for new conflicts between the government and Apple about the method used to open the device and whether that technique will be disclosed. Lawyers for Apple have previously said the company would want to know the procedure used to crack open the smartphone, yet the government might classify the method.
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