“Our delivery included thousands of pages of documents, Secret Service cell phone use and other policies, as well as operational and planning records,” USSS spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement to CNN.
Gee wiz; I could send the J6 committee a bunch of stuff too…all the crap in my file cabinets and boxes of paper in the garage…but.it.ain’t the TEXTS. Seriously- it is way past time to disband the Not-so-secret Service or at least yank it out from under Department of Homeland Security.
The obfuscation aka bullshit is head-spinning;they-know…no one is going to be indicted or charged.
Well, surprise, surprise, surprise !! No texts messages to find - move along, nothing to see here. This is bullshit ! The Committee should subpoena the turned-in phones themselves and then order the FBI at Quantico to do a forensic analysis of these phones memory. There is erased and then there is “NSA Scrubbed”. There is a big difference.
Surely, they can track down the old phones, or did Tony Ornato run over all of them with the Beast ? This all STINKS to high heaven. Like everything else around Trump - you just CAN’T make this shit up.
Seriously, everyone in the Secret Service who did this, in violation of the Records Preservation Act, should be terminated from government service and have their pensions suspended until they come clean.
There isn’t a mention about what type or types of phone the SS use. Regardless of that, wouldn’t they also have been on a back up; Google Drive or iCloud? If not, some government approved back? Wouldn’t it have made sense? If so then they could restore the device. No?? Maybe it’s more complicated then that.
The FBI is a better choice. The DHS really needs to clean house, fire all these guys and start over. Carol Leonnig’s new book. Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service makes it pretty clear that these guys have been a problem for some time. They all think they are above the law or any oversight.
The DHS Secretary needs to draft the best from the FBI to build up a NEW Secret Service.
I don’t know what kind of super secret provider they have but when I migrated over to a new phone, it brought all the text messages from the old phone with it.
The Secret Service reportedly determined that it is unable to provide deleted texts messages from Jan. 5 and 6, 2021 to the Jan. 6 Select Committee in response to the panel’s subpoena last week, a senior official briefed on the matter told the Washington Post. The same official also told the Post that any other texts that agents exchanged around the time of the deadly Capitol insurrection were purged.
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Well what good is the NSA worldwide hoovering of anything electronic then? Those texts are buried somewhere in what thye NSA has in its massive collection of anything sent world wide. Finding them is another story.
The content of a phone-to-phone text messages only get saved by the wireless carriers for a short time, if at all. They do retain some of the metadata longer than that. But if both phones are gone and they weren’t backed up to some other device, they’re most likely gone.
