Back in July, news began to trickle out that texts sent by former top Trump administration officials and dozens of Secret Service staffers from around the time of the January 6 insurrection had gone missing. It was, agencies said, all the result of what they described as a series of phone wipes and a mismanaged data transfer project.
and provides them with a step-by-step guide, but also states that employees were “responsible for appropriately preserving government records that may be created via text messaging".
Given what Trump did to Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, I can understand some squeamishness about text messages.
If there was a textbook on covering up and stalling investigations, this case would be a shining example.
Heads need to roll, we have have become too complacent with the stars quo. There needs to be a thorough house cleaning and a message has to be sent, that certain behaviors will not be tolerated.
I find the disappearing of these emails as upsetting as watching the Capitol being attacked on January 6th. On the surface, this seems to be the biggest cover up in American history and nobody seems to be able to do anything about it. Liars are winning and America is losing.
We know way too much about how these guys operate to call the IG’s actions “poor oversight”. Collusion would be a better word. This mess went down way too perfectly to be anything but deliberate and orchestrated for the purpose of what it achieved. Keeping those text messages out of sight. The SS as well as the IG also did their best to keep anyone from knowing what went down. And they NEEDED that. Those texts would have ended many careers and shed a light on Jan 6 that would have boiled America.
Then a series of perfectly interlocking mistakes went down and everything’s OK.
An exhaustive review that leaves us feeling like the the people involved are still working in the active coup to overthrow the current legitimately elected government. Hopefully the DOJ has a plan to invoke some degree of justice on the assortment of perps leading the parade…we seem to be a nation of laws that can’t deal with high level white collar crimes in any meaningful way.
DHS, founded by the GOP and stuffed full of loyalists. See, also, ICE.
In answer to the old question Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?, the answer seems to be: No one. Leaving Cuffari in place was a grievous mistake under the circumstances. The s.o.b. was the ultimate one man sleeper cell.
Kakistocracy in action.
Schedule F, if implemented, would make this seem downright efficient and transparent.
I would imagine Secret Service agents don’t want to join the cohort of Bus Tire Republicans: loyal Republicans who’ve been thrown under the bus by The Rump for some slight real or imagined. Anyone who didn’t want their inbox filled with graphic, rape and murder fantasy threats against their wives and daughters, would have a strong incentive to delete delete delete. And the data migration would be perfect cover.
I’d like to see the memoranda of the vendor presentations and decision making process as to which one would receive the installation and migration contract, and subsequently the implementation plan dates.
More complete BS - charge the the entire IT team and upper management, they will roll
They were ordered to delete the texts - once the charges are filed they will roll - if they don’t they all go to jail for violation of the federal records act
If they testify we are closer to getting the top planners in DHS and the Pentagon appointments
WTF? Charge them
It makes sense that a senator runs an administration that defines its victories in terms of legislative success. At the same time, Ron Klain needs to have a wing of his operation that is de-Trumping the Executive Branch, and exerting maximum legal pressure on all the sleeper cells that are still in place. No legislation can counter an extralegal network of anti-government saboteurs, and that is essentially the problem here.
I’m figuring (perhaps mistaken, but the recent tfg search warrant give me reason to hope) that there are a few pissed-off lawyers at DoJ who are quietly working on this and will spring the trap in due time. (Not soon enough for most of us, but with effect)
This is key:
Jan. 27, 2021
Secret Service begins data migration to move all devices to Microsoft Intune, a mobile device management service.
You don’t have to wipe the phones for an Intune conversion. That is a migration choice. You can definitely add phones without wiping them. Shared iOS and iPadOS devices - Microsoft Intune | Microsoft Learn
But people don’t seem to be asking that question.
I believe that the only way this was possible (losing these text messages), is if it was a willful cover-up. This needs to be investigated thoroughly and whoever is responsible needs to go to jail. Start with Thomas Kait and find out why, in July of last year, he told DHS that they didn’t need to worry about looking for text messages. Follow up with Cuffari and get the names of everyone that delayed the DHS response and take a fine-toothed comb to their financial entanglements. I bet dollars to doughnuts that there’s some shady transactions there between someone and a PAC or re-election campaign or a sudden influx of cash from somewhere.
As a side note, I work in IT and have done several integrations involving management of devices using Intune and have never lost data. Subpoena anyone that was involved in that project, like, right now. As an American, I want to know who in our government is corrupt and not worthy of the trust that the public places in them. Partisan political activity has no place in civil service.
Yep. There is always at least someone who follows the rules, even if it was only by accident. The idea that absolutely no one at all in the entire department followed the guidance is the smoking gun. Find the person who ordered the deletion of the files.
Aldrich Ames is currently serving a life sentance in Indiana for betraying the country and selling out his CIA colleagues to the KGB. This is no less serious.
weren’t those phone private phones not govt issued phones?
Please, covering their collective a–es is what it looks like to me
why did the Saudi’s give jkushner 2 billion dollars if not for confidential files trump stole from the usa?
So, what are the conditions under which Mr. Cuffari can be terminated? He’s obviously involved in this apparent attempt at a cover-up. The thing is, the communications systems in this country have a long memory…