The House Jan. 6 Committee demanded on Monday that 35 social media, email, and telecommunications firms preserve records that the panel has deemed potentially relevant to its investigation into the Capitol insurrection.
Lotâs of puckering going on around DC with this newsâŚ
Can you imagine how much self-serving whining these people had to sit through as Dumpf declared himself winner and asked them all for retractions (since it was too late to revoke their licenses or launch a nuke).
Thereâs something of a âtellâ at play here wherein the Committee is showing interest in members of the House, but not (yet at least) of the Senate.
There may be something afoot here in the form of laying the groundwork for potential future internal ethics investigations.
Hereâs hoping.
I hope youâre right. It would be nice to see them tossed out on their ear and banned from future office and if this isnât a good enough reason, what is?!
There should be. Sedition is a serious crime and should be a disqualification for Federal office or any position of trust in the United States, including as Officer of the Court, (disbarment), a Peace Officer, a fiduciary or any other legal accountability.
I really wonder what records Signal has.
I bet the guilty parties are not especially perturbed by this records request. The folks who were really behind this have demonstrated that they have good communication security.
I also think their plan involves leaving too much malfeasance behind them for justice to actually reach its conclusion and bar them from power in time for their long-anticipated second wave of REDMAP gerrymandering to replace our government with democracy theatre. Certainly Trump has shown a willingness to escape the law by committing too many offenses for the cops to ever work through his backlog. It really is a race.
Remember that all of this is for nought until and unless some kind of legal decision takes effect that prevents them from returning to power through the backdoors they created for themselves. An all-but conviction is the equivalent of a free pass.
Trump doesnât have to win any of these legal battles. He just has to lose slowly enough for the forces of corruption to snatch him from the jaws of victory.
So the House Committee seems to be taking this investigation where it needs to go- The House. Putting their colleagues on notice is an important move- especially with Cawthorn quacking about breaking people out of jail.
The House Jan. 6 Committee demanded on Monday that 35 social media, email, and telecommunications firms preserve records that the panel has deemed potentially relevant to its investigation into the Capitol insurrection.
Earth to House Select Committee: none of these social media companies ever delete anything. With storage being cheaper than dirt, when a user âdeletesâ something, they flag it âdonât show this anymoreâ.* You canât monetize deleted data and you donât know what next yearâs monetization strategy will be.
*I think I read that gmail flags in place, then runs a purge of deleted email every 30 days
On a related point, near the letterâs end, Chairman Thompsonâs August 25, 2021, request to the National Archivist seeks production of, among other things:
[âŚ] (e) Responsibilities in the Transfer of Power and the Obligation to Follow the Rule of Law
[âŚ] 7. From January 6, 2021, through January 20, 2021, all documents and communications related to the mental stability of Donald Trump or his fitness for office .
(emphasis added). One has to stop and ponder what an arresting formulation that is.
As has been suggested, insertion of this language didnât just happen; it is not the perfunctory work of some dutiful but anonymous House aide just trying to be thorough. No, more likely, the Committee knows that responsive documents and communications in the specified date range indeed exist, has copies of some of those documents and communications, and knows who at least some of the authors and recipients are. And those authors and recipients are essentially being notified, indirectly, that the Committee knows who they are and what they said, and that there is no use trying to delete, scrub or otherwise obfuscate because it will come out in due course.
Now, nothing stops the authors in question from resurrecting the âI was being sarcasticâ excuse if called to account for making reference to, say, the 25th AmendmentâŚ
Still, more proof that Kevin McCarthy made a huge blunder by throwing his hissy instead of exercising what leverage he had, limited as it might have been, to have a say in how the investigation shaped up.