WAPO: More text messages missing from on or about 1/6

[mobeau69]

Text messages for former President Donald Trump’s acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and acting deputy secretary Ken Cuccinelli are missing for a key period leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, according to four people briefed on the matter and internal emails.

This discovery of missing records for the senior-most homeland security officials, which has not been previously reported, increases the volume of potential evidence that has vanished regarding the time around the Capitol attack.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07/28/homeland-security-texts-jan6/

[Ocelot II]

1. This gets stinkier every day.

But I'll bet Carol Loennig has never had so much fun before. Journalists give entire limbs for scoops like this.

[Grammy23]

2. I don't know how this woman gets one wink of sleep

at night just mulling over what she’ll uncover tomorrow! She is a treasure! And she is modest to a fault and never toots her own horn. So we should!

[edhopper]

3. But their emails!

[bahboo]

4. anyone at all surprised by this....

[BootinUp]

5. A coincidence to end all coincidences. Nt

[brush]

6. They were all crooks, just erasing evidence of their crimes.

I hope all of it is recovered. If not, they should still go to jail.

[sybylla]

16. Recoverable or not, they should all go to jail.

This is effing BS. They destroyed and hid the property of the PEOPLE.

[Rhiannon12866]

8. Lawrence O'Donnell had Carol Leonnig on with this breaking news tonight:

Pre-Jan. 6 Text Messages Missing For Key Trump Officials - The Last Word - MSNBC
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017754085

The Washington Post’s Carol Leonnig joins MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss her new reporting that "text messages for former President Donald Trump’s acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and acting deputy secretary Ken Cuccinelli are missing for a key period leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.” - Aired on 07/28/2022.

[Stuart G]

19. After Jan 6th ..till Jan 20...Who was in charge? That is why messages are missing.

Is this ...rocket science? or very complicated?...................................??????????????????????

It ain't complicate 't to me...............Is it to you?........

[Stuart G]

21. Someone ordered that messages be deleted...can you guess who? (hint: ...it ain't Hillary)

[Sky Jewels]

9. Talk about a vast right wing conspiracy...

This is a big one.

[spanone]

17. Hillary warned us years ago

[Sky Jewels]

18. I remember.

And that phrase was treated like a joke ... but she was correct.

[C Moon]

10. And tfg worshipers say, "Oh good." With no concern for the laws or the constitution.

They are a weird bunch of freaks.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. The attempted coup wasn't limited to the insurrectionists and Hair Furor.

[Martin68]

12. But what about Hillary's emails!!!!!

So glad to see Cuccinelli on the list. So glad he's out of Virginia government.

[mobeau69]

13. Me to. He's a little weasel. nt

[FelineOverlord]

14. Carol Leonnig and Chad Wolf are fighting

Chad did NOT like the article.

Link to tweet

[Stuart G]

20. ....guess who was in charge on Jan 6, 7, .....can you guess who might have erased messages?

[SWBTATTReg]

22. Again, here's that consciousness of guilt, that has been running about, w/ the J6 investigations

and such, and we have it here w/ the Secret Service texts. Is it solely (the missing texts) of the senior membership of the SS? Or is it only those protecting Pence, tRUMP, a few others?

Why would they hide the texts? Some possible (and disturbing reasons) could be:

(1) tRUMP told his SS detail to keep on track of Pence's location, let his SS detail know where he was at all times (so something nefarious would happen to Pence, not a good thing, tRUMP wasn't at all concerned w/ Pence's health or well-being, he just wanted to bash Pence in);
(2) SS has some renegade agents;
(3) SS has some agents reporting from inside the Capital building, like some of the traitorous republican members of Congress that were reporting on current locations of House members and Pence so harm could come to them;
(4) SS had some disturbing texts distributed among their network from tRUMP to 'grab and harm' Pence, the SS thus deleted the texts to protect tRUMP;

As a former IT guy, heavily involved in multiple system upgrades over 30+ years, it is unheard of to not back up a system prior to being upgraded. What happens when and if a major glitch is discovered? That's why backups occur, so if something major in a negative way is discovered, the IT implementers of the new changes (tech hardware and/or software) can back off, redo at a later time the upgrades.

This is very disturbing to me. And not just because the retention guidelines are being violated, the agents themselves that were involved in this cover-up are in violation of their ethics, and perhaps more.