Defense Dept Wiped Phones Of Trump Pentagon Officials, Erasing Jan. 6-Related Texts

The Defense Department reportedly wiped the phones of key Trump Pentagon officials at the end of the former president’s administration, erasing any texts from key witnesses to events surrounding the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, CNN reported.


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Defense Dept Wiped Phones Of Trump Pentagon Officials, Erasing Jan. 6-Related Texts

I am sure it is just a coincidence.

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Do these people wiping their phones over possible treasonous acts get plush government pensions?

Charge them, fine them, jail them, rip their pensions away.

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OT. Fetus repletus.

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Merrick Garland says he’s hopelessly lost and not to rely on him.

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Can we please get information from ANY prior President’s team as to this DOD/DHS policy during their terms???

When did this policy go into place and by whom was it reviewed and approved?

This is getting fucking ridiculous! *&^%$#!

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Coverup, misdirection, tampering with evidence, and deliberate failure to maintain government records make we wonder just how far the coup plan goes. It’s a good thing I am not of a suspicious nature.

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Now imagine this had happened with a GQP Congress and Executive branch under a previously Democratic administration.

Any guesses what would happen? Any guesses why this isn’t happening now?

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The late great Wilson Pickett sang about “The Land Of A Thousand Dances”;
this must be “The (Trump)Government, of… a thousand bull-shitters.”

Unfortunately little can be done by the J6 Committee except register it’s Deep Disappoint.

The deal is, I don’t think there’s any illegality here. It might be unethical or bad policy. But I don’t think there’s individual criminal exposure here. BWDIK?

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Government-by-text…and tweet, is a “thing” that never should be.

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See FLYNN, Michael*

*And among the myriad crimes he’s committed he’s never been accused of wiping his phone (though we know he did, innumerable times).

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Buttery males! Someone had to say it!

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BUT, the F-N state can’t… won’t expand Medicaid for humans not swimming in Amniotic fluid.

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The Kash Patel, Chris Miller post-election loss installation at the DoD has always struck me as a key event, about which we know very little.

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Without you can’t prove criminal conspiracy, so there’s a lot of self-congratulations going on I’m sure. All we need is one person who archived theirs somewhere to finally come forward.

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I think we are all due for yet another Grand Jury investigation. Mr Garland, are you listening?

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At least by Jan 6, if not sooner. I think a lot of us had suspicions after the WH call logs disappeared, the toilet was clogged, and Meadows forgot to open the fireplace damper, but I am a little surprised it was so rampant in other Departments (DHS, SS, DoD).

What Trump Dept is next? Any bets?
Watergate on steroids: Wipegate.

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Ever hear of the Federal Records Management Act ( 44 U.S.C. Chapter 31)?

“The head of each Federal agency shall make and preserve records containing adequate and proper documentation of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, and essential transactions of the agency and designed to furnish the information necessary to protect the legal and financial rights of the Government and of persons directly affected by the agency’s activities.”

I think we may have reason for probable cause

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Half the Senate, half the House, DOJ, DHS, USSS, DOD, and members of SCOTUS were involved. The seditious conspiracy and cover up of the failed coup attempt against the United States is vast, corrupting the most powerful institutions of this nation. It’s beyond the pale. These people deserve a firing squad, not a fucking book deal and quiet retirement.

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