UPDATED by SPOX: Secret Service upset over reports of them erasing text messages

[FelineOverlord]

Last edited Thu Jul 14, 2022, 11:36 PM - Edit history (3)

Chief of Communications for the United States Secret Service has responded.

UPDATED:

Press release:

https://www.secretservice.gov/newsroom/releases/2022/07/statement-anthony-guglielmi-chief-communications-united-states-secret

Check Out Reply 28.

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[FelineOverlord]

1. Still waiting for more info

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[DURHAM D]

4. Not nothing.

Thank you Cassidy Hutchinson for helping expose him.

[Bucky]

36. I wonder what it means by "shortly"

shortly definitely doesn't mean "by Friday"

[Walleye]

2. Come in swear to tell the truth and tell that dog ate my homework story under oath

[Samrob]

3. Embeds at work. nt

[FelineOverlord]

5. Secret Service trending at #1 on Twitter

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[Journeyman]

10. How could you "reconstruct" the texts with any appreciable accuracy . . .

and expect to not be called out for manufacturing evidence?

Maybe this is a ploy to get others to come forward, or the recipients to provide the messages from their end. But unless there's more to this technology than I can fathom, I don't see how "reconstructing" the texts would be of any substantial use.

[James48]

16. Actually, IF everything was working, it should be possible.

Government phones use, and go through
, the same commercial servers that anyone else uses. And in most cases, they go through government servers as well, and backup copies of all messages are automatically archived.

IF everything was working the way it should- they ought to be able to pull those messages off the servers in question, even if the sender and receiver deleted their copies.

Electronics stay forever, unless intentionally deleted, and I don’t think this type of. Swap would delete the archives of those messages. If just May take sone time to get the data.

[Journeyman]

23. Thanks for the response, James . . .

that makes sense, and would be accurate, as well.

[Tetrachloride]

6. This is high level popcorn. Wish I was there.

[LiberalFighter]

7. Considering recent behavior of Secret Service they likely intentionally deleted them.

[WiVoter]

20. I Agree

I’m glad that President Biden is making changes with some of them & getting some of the same Secret Service people he had when he was vice president. I worry about his safety.

[RockRaven]

8. If you believe those texts were deleted as part of a device replacement program *which was totally

innocent and coincidental* then I've got a fucking bridge I'd like to sell you.

Dirty bureaucrats always have a hundred ways to do shady shit within the confines of plausible deniability. Most of the cruelty-is-the-point depredations of TFG's regime were performed thusly.

[azureblue]

22. totally stupid

Like any cell phone device, when migrating the data is transferred, then verified. Sometimes direct, sometimes through a 3rd storage device. No doubt the contact numbers and settings were transferred, so that means the messages were, too. and that means the messages are somewhere. Further, when data is erased, it is not erased - the header - that is, the name and directions to the data are erased, so the data can be retrieved.
Whoever came up with this excuse is totally ignorant.. The messages will be recovered and the who ever will be charged.

[ProfessorGAC]

38. I Had A Company Phone

Every 2 years, i got a new one. From 1996 to 2018. So, 7 or 8 times my phone got replaced in the smartphone era. (I'm counting BlackBerry.)
In every case, in 12 hours or less, the new phone had EVERYTHING on it that was on the previous one.
Texts, contacts, Apps, files, everything.
In 2022, the cut in of a new server wiped out messages on Secret Service phones? And, the texts were from the 5th & 6th?
Strains credulity.
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[Sky Jewels]

9. I really used to think the Secret Service was a stellar organization

that was above politics.

Boy, was I naïve.

Trump turns everything, and I mean everything, to shit, including this once reputable agency.

[RockRaven]

11. They were shitty *before* TFG. Remember the people they let crash Obama's inauguration?

Here's an article from 2014 just about the scandals during Obama's first term and a half.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/long-list-breaches-scandals-secret-service-under-obama-n215751

Some highlights:
The crashers in 2009.
Shots fired at the WH in 2011, and the supervisor immediately ordered a stand down declaring it to be a car backfiring, the shooting is not properly identified as such for four days.
Prostitutes in Colombia in 2012.
Drunk in Amsterdam in 2014.
Letting an armed guy with a criminal record get into an elevator with Obama in 2014.

Obama had replaced the director twice by that point. They never got better.

[Sky Jewels]

14. Ugh.

So depressing.

[NullTuples]

15. It's like they're cops, or something...

[Novara]

34. Those events are all from Obama's terms

Maybe the rot started there because they're racist fucks? Maybe they didn't like having to protect a black man?

I'm just spitballing.

[RockRaven]

35. No, the problems with the SS go was way back. My post was just illustrating that the problems

date to before TFG, in direct response to the prior post. Obama was a convenient example as the immediate prior POTUS.

For another older example with obvious parallels to today, we could look at the SS destroying documents in the wake of the JFK assassination, immediately after receiving requests for those very documents from investigators. Their excuse then was routine document culling, not unlike today's routine device swapping excuse.

It's not merely bad actors in the organization, something is fucked up about the very institution/culture which transcends individuals and persists despite personnel turnover through the years.

[FelineOverlord]

12. Darth knows

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[FelineOverlord]

13. This was just a few days ago

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[gab13by13]

17. Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?

Who watches the watchers?

[dhol82]

19. Exactly.

They smell like three day old fish.

[stollen]

18. SS schutzstaffel (protection squadron)

and that's what you do when you protect; erase things.

[Cha]

21. Release the Texts.. Mad SS!!

Simple!

[ecstatic]

24. That sounds a lot like what Raffensperger did in GA after they stole the 2018 election

from Stacey Abrams. But I digress...

[spudspud]

25. Bet his meeting afterwards was like this:

Secret Service Spokesman: We take great issue with these accusations and I will be speaking out about this shortly!!

**Huffs back to office. Calls a meeting with SS agents.**

Secret Service Spokesman: Ok guys. This is clearly a bullshit story right? We're not the baddies, are we?
SS Agents: **crickets**
Secret Service Spokesman: Guys? Guys?

[keithbvadu2]

26. What needs to be kept so secret, Secret Service?

What needs to be kept so secret, Secret Service?

[KS Toronado]

27. Probably covering their own asses

for any involvement some agents had in the insurrection. Did Pence refuse to get in a limo with
them Jan 6th because he knew something he's never shared with the public?

[FelineOverlord]

28. He's back with an UPDATE!!!

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[slightlv]

30. Blame it on the Migration... yeah, right....

we had migrations at DoD, too. We didn't lose any of our data, tho...

[bringthePaine]

29. when the "secret" is toadying for D'umbp, FUCK RIGHT OFF NO WAITING!

[BlueLucy]

31. How hard can it be to download and archive before deleting? nt

[crickets]

32. Yep. One would think there's a backup of sensitive data records as a matter of course. nt

[Xoan]

33. Keystone concedes ...

No Contest.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

37. There are laws about preserving (1) evidence, (2) government records.

Just how many MAGAts are above the law?