The U.S. Secret Service just barely fulfilled the Department of Homeland Security inspector general’s demand for a month’s worth of texts sent and received by 24 Secret Service members, according to a letter from the agency to the House Jan. 6 Committee.
“Watcha gonna do about it?” a Secret Service mouthpiece snorted when asked if that was it.
Hmm. I guess they weren’t busy those days.
It’s almost as if they might not want people to know about some things.
Well when it’s right there in their name…“secret” service. Whatcha gonna do?
One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do
Two can be as bad as one
It’s the loneliest number since the number one
It explains the “secret” in Secret Service?
This is something like “The server erased my dog after he ate my homework’” level of excuse. No one above the age of 5 years old could be expected to believe it. However, as comical as it is on one level, it is also chilling. As becca 656 commented on What Was Trump Doing For 187 Minutes During The Capitol Attack?:
That Secret Service members were willing to purge texts that they knew by law they had to preserve suggests that they calculated it would be better to face the fallout for deleting the texts than the fallout from whatever was in those texts.
I’m guessing they almost certainly substantiated Ms. Hutchinson’s testimony, and perhaps alluded to even more damning incidents. That active Secret Service members would take such a risk in a high profile investigation is really breathtaking.
I’d love to hear that Tony “I Love Trump” Ornato had something to do with this clusterfuck.
All their explanations and excuses are bullshit. USSS is up to its eyeballs in insurrection.
I mean they really couldn’t call it “Dirty Deeds Done Dirty Cheap”, aka DDDDC?
The only word needed to reply to this is: bullshit.
Weren’t they supposed to back-up their text messages before the “phone migration” (AKA “destroy the evidence”)?
I’d be interested to see for what dates and subjects and agents text messages were not erased and/or were properly backed up as required before the “phone migration.”
BTW, does “phone migration” mean they flew south? Like to someplace near Palm Beach?
I am pretty much certain we will…
So they managed to find one single text that allowed them to say they were responding to the request. (begin Church Lady voice) How convenient!
It’s basically “Fuck you, what are you shitheels gonna do?”
Serious question:
Does the FBI need a search warrant before it can just march in and toss all of Secret Service’s shit?
I legitimately don’t know whether a government agency has any Fourth Amendment rights against being searched by another government agency. My suspicion is that the agency does not, but the individuals probably do if the search turns up any personal crimes.
How about if we replace your VIP protection function with FBI agents, and send y’all back to the Treasury to handle counterfeit money? How does that sound?