Destroying Evidence? Rep Gaetz deleted tweet he illegally sent from inside the House SCIF

[kpete]

Oh look, GOP congress members Matt Gaetz & Mark Walker seeing reports that they broke national security protocols by bringing cellphones into a SCIF and they're failingly trying to respond by saying "JUST KIDDING, THIS WAS OUR STAFF"

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Docreed2003]

1. They must think people are idiots

"Tweet from Staff" who are totally not in the room...and yet, each tweet provides remarkable details of what's going on IN THE ROOM!!

[Nitram]

14. They've been relying on that for years.

[erronis]

17. Yup - that's their "base". Only the un-brightest and un-best.

[2naSalit]

2. Take their phones from them NOW!!

geezus!

[Iliyah]

3. Tweet from the staff, FROM Gaetz phone . . .

All righty then . .

[PJMcK]

4. To any DU lawyers: Is this a crime?

Thanks, in advance.

[malaise]

5. Love exboyfil's suggestion

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=12614582

Censure them

[rockfordfile]

6. Every single one of them should be in jail

[sinkingfeeling]

7. How would a staffer outside the room know what was happening inside?

[BigmanPigman]

8. He's not the brightest bulb in the box.

They are desperate since they can't argue with the testimony and facts that their king is guilty of impeachable crimes and will be impeached. Pretty lame moves proves their desperation. They can't even rely on Fux Ruse to get them out of this fate.

[The_REAL_Ecumenist]

25. Please allow me to add to your AMAZING true post....

None of the cretins that accompanied gaetz are the sharpest knives in the drawer...

[JoeOtterbein]

9. Lock him up!

[AtheistCrusader]

10. BUT HER EMAILS

These fuckwits only care about national security when it suits their political interests.

[greblach]

11. Interlopers

Hopefully a full list of the SCIF invaders is known...

[dchill]

12. "My brother did it!"

This is the courage of their convictions. Shitweasels.

[0rganism]

13. i guess that "Staff" guy is in a lot of trouble now, huh

bummer for "Staff". next time maybe watch out who you call "Boss".

[Wounded Bear]

15. The internet is forever...

I'm pretty sure there are hundreds (thousands? ) of copies of that tweet around the country, dutifully recorded for posterity.

[hibbing]

16. What about the idiot that made audio recording? n/t

[Pepsidog]

18. I guess dumb is "in" in republican circles

[Saviolo]

19. Great tweet about it:

Link to tweet

?s=20

Santa Claus, CEO
@SantaInc

GOP: “Ok we’re inside the SCIF...”

GOP, 5 minutes later: “No wait, this is our staff outside the SCIF talking...”

GOP, 5 minutes later: “Ok we are definitely not communicating SCIF info to our staff...”

GOP, 5 minutes later: “Please don’t call the cops on us.”

[CaptainTruth]

20. I would hope that the SCIF has signal detection equipment in it...

...so it can detect if a cell phone is present & if that phone transmitted anything. I'm assuming a SCIF is a Faraday cage so in order to send a tweet from inside a door would have to be open.

[marieo1]

21. Rule of law

I think Gaetz and others like him are Russian operatives. No respect for our rule of law. How did they ever get elected? The same way DJT did!!!

[Kid Berwyn]

22. NAZIs are another conservative group what liked to storm legal proceedings.

Gaetz is a traitor in service to Trump, another traitor who is in service to Putin.

[bucolic_frolic]

23. Maybe the stunt was intended to scramble things up

The GOP seems to have foreign computer intelligence experts to help do whatever they want. Could their phones have hacked, downloaded, damaged, uploaded? I have no idea, I run a 10 year old laptop.

[flying_wahini]

24. This stinks a bit like when Ted Cruz shut down the govt in 2013

KGOP going in with Bull headed thinking, guns a blazing and worry about repercussions later.

[Jirel]

27. Probably Dolt45's next move.

You know he wants something else at the top of the news cycle. Come November, he’ll be shutting down the government. I’ll put money on it.

[Jirel]

26. Censure.

Easy. When you tweet from inside a secured area, it’s easy to prove. Just nail them under ethics rules.

[tandem5]

28. I thought SCIFs blocked em signals

[ck4829]

29. K&R