Secret Service Erased January 6 Text Messages

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Secret Service Erased January 6 Text Messages

July 14, 2022 at 3:54 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 39 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/07/14/secret-service-erased-january-6-text-messages/

"SNIP......

The Secret Service erased text messages from January 5 and January 6, 2021 after oversight officials requested the agency’s electronic communications, The Intercept reports.

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[Haggard Celine]

1. Well ain't that just ducky?

[Walleye]

2. Seems to me that's illegal destruction of evidence

It’s not like they didn’t know crimes were going to be investigated

[Salviati]

10. Or at least destruction of records that should have been kept

The responsible parties should at least be fired, if not criminally prosecuted...

[Walleye]

11. I wonder what they were covering up. Probably all the texts about Trump trying to grab the wheel

[Rebl2]

23. Exactly

[Kid Berwyn]

3. Gosh. Wouldn't that be obstruction of justice?

Not that it’s illegal when the pee-resident does that.

[Walleye]

5. We need to find out just who gave that order. These things don't happen by themselves

[Kid Berwyn]

12. They thought they wouldn't be caught.

Or held accountable.

No Secret Service texts or records likely means SS brass and agents were in on Trump’s treason.

Wouldn’t be the first time.

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3834909

[DURHAM D]

4. Good lord.

Put them in jail

[yardwork]

24. If Congress doesn't hold them accountable, we're doomed.

[onecaliberal]

6. HO-LEE SHIT

[exboyfil]

7. Wouldn't these be recoverable?

It does show consciousness of guilt and dereliction of duty. Whoever did it needs to be fired and prosecuted under the Records Retention Act and Tampering with Evidence.

[WiVoter]

13. I am wondering the same thing

With modern technology I would guess there’s a way to retrieve those text messages.

[Catherine Vincent]

20. That's what I'm guessing.

[Emile]

21. My thoughts too.

Someone somewhere should be able to recover this valuable evidence.

[CloudWatcher]

22. Suspect these guys use something other than ordinary texts

While the news calls them "text messages" I'm going to guess these are not your ordinary phones and the texts are not the messages you and I think of when we see "text messages" in the news.

[hibbing]

8. Every day it gets worse n/t

[Delphinus]

29. {sigh}

It does.

[SheltieLover]

9. Lock. Them. Up.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

14. Fire these dirtbags, that is a crime and they know it !

This didn't just happen, they they exactly what they were doing and did it anyways.

[brush]

15. Off to jail then. Seems a violation of the president's records act.

SS officials/agents know that. This makes Cassidy's Hutchinson's testimony about trump getting physical against the agents in the SUV on J6 even more believable.

[Backseat Driver]

16. Somebody doesn't have a clue...

https://www.secretservice.gov/about/leadership/opr

What's Gloria R Armstrong got to say about the OIG and "congressional data complicance."

Think she ever ran into Tony?

Another agency that needs more effective Lysol Sanitary Wipes...

[blogslug]

17. James Murray almost made it out the door

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-secret-service-director-james-murray-to-retire/

July 7, 2022 / 3:27 PM / CBS News

Washington — U.S. Secret Service Director James M. Murray will retire from his post at the end of the month, after a 32-year career in the federal government and three years at the helm of the agency.

The 27-year veteran of the Secret Service has served as the agency's chief executive since May 1, 2019, overseeing the agency through a record-breaking 42 protective details deployed during the Trump administration, a presidential campaign and the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to navigating a series of controversies.

Murray's departure comes amid continuing questions about an alleged altercation between former President Donald Trump and his security detail ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, detailed in explosive congressional testimony by former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson last week.

Hutchinson testified that she was told Trump lunged at a Secret Service agent and tried to grab the wheel of his vehicle when agents refused to drive him to the Capitol. However, a source close to the Secret Service told CBS News that the two agents who were in the vehicle are prepared to contradict Hutchinson's account under oath.

New Jan 6 Committee Show guest star just dropped

[Tree Lady]

18. My husband thinks that is treason

Is it against the law? Should be.

[Brainfodder]

19. Innocent people did what?

[Schmice3]

25. The Secret Service was in on the plot

[Stuart G]

26. Why?...It can't be to protect ."Donald Trump" .That would be illegal..destroying evidence! .Correct?

[Captain Zero]

27. Cause several of them were Eric Prince goons and

didn't trump bring in some people from his private security to work alongside of the SS but specifically to be around him??

[Novara]

28. Unless they were using some sort of encrypted devices, there should he an electronic record

Gee, innocent people sure do act strangely, don't they?!

[spanone]

30. ...and they talk about the deep state.

of course they do.

[Irish_Dem]

31. SS is clearly going to cover up Trump's crimes.

They will probably refuse to testify as well.