U.S. Secret Service Assistant Director Anthony “Tony” Ornato left the Secret Service on Monday — notable timing, given that he is due to speak to the Jan. 6 Committee later this week.
Hmmmmm….I smell a rat.
he’s reportedly been evading interviews with the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General for months.
Quelle surprise!
Let me guess - his ‘testimony’ will be an homage to the number five amendment to the Constitution.
Weasels gotta weasel, huh?
How conveeeeenient…
Secret Service Assistant Director Anthony “Tony” Ornato left the Secret Service on Monday
Don’t. Wipe. His. Government. Phone.
The erasure of so many 1/6 messages from several agencies is being treated with too much credulity.
If, as a recent TPM piece implied, the problem was that agents were made responsible for archiving their own text histories, then one would expect a pattern where some agents kept all their messages and others lost all their messages. But we are being repeatedly told that all the messages got erased. That indicates coordination.
This seems to be a rather obvious indication of conspiracy.
I recall it being announced that he was going to retire the end of he summer. He is probably happy that his retirement has vested. There is little doubt that he lost sight of who he worked for during the Trump administration.
Lock Him Up!
If it was a pain in the ass to back up their texts, then (almost) no one would have done it. Who needs their old texts?
The ones who wanted to keep their jobs by complying with government recordkeeping rules.
Let’s hope we see more ‘retirements’ from the USSS of people who thought it not important to keep their texts from Jan 6th.
They were in compliance with their department’s recordkeeping rules. You don’t get to suppose a pony here, where, OMG IT’S A GOVERNMENT JOB THEREFORE EVERYTHNG MUST BE RECORDED IN TRIPLICATE!!! HEREBY!
Not according to what we know:
The first email about preserving records came on Dec. 9, 2020 from the Secret Service’s Office of Strategic Planning and the second was in January 2021 from the agency’s chief information officer, though the source didn’t provide an exact date. Both emails included reminders that federal employees have the responsibility to preserve their records and included instructions on how to do so, the senior Secret Service official said.
Is putting the burden directly on federal employees to preserve their records a dumb solution? Yeah.
However, its not that they weren’t informed multiple times about their responsibility and how to do it. I also believe these agents are smart enough to realize their records around the most significant attack on our seat of government in centuries are important to preserve.
I think the stench is overwhelming enough to indicate a rat king.
“Run-run as fast as you can;you can’t catch me- (in a lie), I’m the Gingerbread Man.”
“his resignation means he cannot be legally compelled to cooperate with the probe.” Man, the number of people who are behaving as if they are legally implicated by their association with Trumpworld (hello, Lindsay Graham), or are actually implicated (Project Veritas, Rudy Giuliani) is huge, and not done sprawling.
We’re gonna need a bigger prison.
The actual message was to preserve the records that required preserving, not that they were required to preserve everything.
This might be the first time that I ever advocated building more prisons!!
Nope. Those who had been around more than a couple years knew that on a phone changeover it was SOP to just leave the old messages to be wiped, because no one gives a fuck about old pizza orders and “check out the hottie at 2 o’clock”.