Friday, July 29, 2022

The purging of records goes all the way to the top. Trump ordered it. It seems obvious.

It is being said that each member of the department was responsible for preserving their records. I am wondering how many members of the department thought they did only to find out they didn't.

Trump promised people heading these departments it would all be okay because he would provide pardons after the coupe.

Look, the bozo that was leaving the Secret Service to be an officer at Snapchat would have access to any part of information that might still be there. It is a huge assumption. But, it makes sense to me.

July 29, 2022
By Drew Harwell
Will Oremus, 
and 
Joseph Menn
 

Cybersecurity specialists (click here) said the agency bungled a routine task by telling agents to back up their own records, which is ‘not something any other organization would ever do’

Cybersecurity experts and former government leaders are stunned by how poorly the Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security handled the preservation of officials’ text messages and other data from around Jan. 6, 2021, saying the top agencies entrusted with fighting cybercrime should never have bungled the simple task of backing up agents’ phones....

I refuse to believe all the Secret Service is corrupt. The leadership did this and it is my estimate the officers can make testimony to what was in those records.

July 28, 2022
By Carol D. Leonnig and Maria Sacchetti

Text messages (click here) 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.

It comes as both congressional and criminal investigators at the Department of Justice seek to piece together an effort by the president and his allies to overturn the results of the election, which culminated in a pro-Trump rally that became a violent riot in the halls of Congress....