BREAKING: the 1/6 committee has issued a subpoena to the #SecretService

[demmiblue]

NEWS: The Jan. 6 select committee has subpoenaed the Secret Service for records.

This is the first time the committee has publicly announced a subpoena for an Executive Branch agency.

Details TK

Link to tweet

[applegrove]

1. OMG!

[FoxNewsSucks]

2. Will they comply

or will they follow the example set by republicons?

[Nevilledog]

5. We'll find out on the 19th

[Sewa]

25. Why not, they have already cover their tracks

💀🤙

[drray23]

35. obviously they will

Secretary of the DHS Mayorkas is controling the secret service. They will be asked to provide all the information requested. The government agencies report to the current leadership, not Trump's. Career employees will comply or be fired.

[tblue37]

3. That'll do, pig.

[dalton99a]

4. Good.

[Cha]

6. Good for Democracy .. oh oh for

them

Focus!
Please Fight to Save Our Democracy💙 in 2022 & 2024!

[duckworth969]

7. The plot thickens...

[Nevilledog]

8. More

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https://january6th.house.gov/sites/democrats.january6th.house.gov/files/20220715%20J6%20Cmte%20Letter%20to%20USSS.pdf

Letter says:

The Select Committee has been informed that the USSS erased text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021 as part of a “device-replacement program.” In a statement issued July 14, 2022, the USSS stated that it “began to reset its mobile phones to factory settings as part of a pre-planned, three-month system migration. In that process, data resident on some phones was lost.” However, according to that USSS statement, “none of the texts it [DHS Office of Inspector General] was seeking had been lost in the migration.”

Accordingly, the Select Committee seeks the relevant text messages, as well as any after action reports that have been issued in any and all divisions of the USSS pertaining or relating in any way to the events of January 6, 2021. A copy of document production definitions and instructions is attached. Please contact staff for the Select Committee at 202-225-7800 to arrange for the production of documents.

[FoxNewsSucks]

11. One hopes that this would also be immediately

sent to the DoJ for swift arrests and prosecutions.

[gab13by13]

18. Why do they have to wait for the select committee?

[triron]

20. They don't but it helps that this has been done.

[Tetrachloride]

9. Nostalgia word association

I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.

[Grasswire2]

22. Wimpy. Wasn't that the character's name? nt

[vanlassie]

24. Yep!

Love that quote! 🍔🍔🍔

[global1]

10. How Deep Is This Deep State That TFG Left Us With?....nt

[RockRaven]

12. So... Were the messages really deleted or did someone clumsily try to BS the DHS OIG?

Can the SS not even cover-up their coup assistance properly?

[rurallib]

32. When I first saw that I immediately thought - wouldn't there be a backup someplace?

If not that was some incredibly lousy upgrade they got. Something that Iwoud say never happens these days.

[Hekate]

13. Here's one for the Committee

[BootinUp]

14. Hmmm, will be interesting

[Funtatlaguy]

15. Love to see the DOJ also do this

[demmiblue]

16. Jan. 6 committee subpoenas Secret Service amid text message controversy

The Jan. 6 select committee has subpoenaed the Secret Service following a string of conflicts with the agency and revelations that a large swath of text messages sent by agents on the day of the Capitol attack have been erased.

The move marks the first time the select committee has publicly announced the subpoena of an Executive Branch agency and comes the same day the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general privately briefed committee members on the discovery of the missing text messages.

The subpoena, directed at agency director James Murray — who is retiring later this month — demands the production of records by July 19.

“The Select Committee seeks the relevant text messages, as well as any after action reports that have been issued in any and all divisions of the USSS pertaining or relating in any way to the events of January 6, 2021,” Chairman Bennie Thompson said in a letter accompanying the subpoena.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/15/jan-6-committee-subpoenas-secret-service-amid-text-message-controversy-00046199

[JoeOtterbein]

17. K n R ! Thanks for posting!

Another great reason for Biden to clean the SS house from top to bottom!

[Deuxcents]

19. How could the DOJ not get involved?

The J6 is practically giving everything to them. Swear in Neal Katyal n get busy.

[triron]

21. Fuck yeah.

[WheelWalker]

23. That's it. The pivot to a Full Tom Clancy.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

26. Will it be the Secret Service or the Schutzstaffel that shows up in those messages?

[cloudboy07]

27. committee now will be open for season 2 !

saddle up! let the rodeo begin !

[erronis]

40. You know, that's been some of the most successful video in the last few years.

Wonder if the media magnates don't want to plot a coup every year or two to keep their audiences happy....

[Kaleva]

28. Can't Biden just order the SS to cooperate with all requests from the panel?

[drray23]

36. Exactly. they report to his administration

The career employees will comply, the appointees who are presumably loyal to the current administration will or be fired.

[COL Mustard]

46. Career civil service employees have

Due process rights. So if anything the committee is requesting is incriminating, the employees have due process to protect themselves, and the agency has to work within those limitations. However, once the employees have had due process, it’s a whole new ball game.

All that said, I’ll be getting my popcorn ready! Will be wild!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

29. This will be fun to watch

Link to tweet

[sellitman]

30. Imagine the Secret Service behind bars too.

The corruption in Trumps Government is breath taking.

[Evolve Dammit]

45. Imagine another four (or more) years

[BumRushDaShow]

31. I heard on the radio early this morning, in no uncertain terms, they want the info BY TUESDAY!

Link to tweet

January 6th Committee
@January6thCmte
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The Select Committee has issued a subpoena for records from the United States Secret Service.

In a letter to Secret Service Director James Murray, Chair @BennieGThompson sought information about Secret Service text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021 that were reportedly erased.
10:39 PM · Jul 15, 2022

[rurallib]

33. Chairman Thompson may help the former SS director with retirement accommodations

Just sit in this nice cell until those messages are found.

[KS Toronado]

34. May the FORCE be with the Select Committee.

[Samrob]

37. I hope the subpoena gives cover for a couple of agents to come forward and spill their guts! nt

[jaxexpat]

38. Praetorians falling on their swords.....I like it as a title for a famous painting in the future.

[erronis]

41. I can see a lot of these "praetorians" running for the hills. Perhaps the Bundy Ranch?

Old Mickey Flynn leading the posse into the hills. Trump pedaling his golf cart. Ghouliani passed out in the gulch and the other lawyers frantically searching his pockets for any jewels.

Instead of a famous painting, how about a remake of the 300 Stooges?

[temporary311]

43. Time to disband the Praetorians

and bring on the Varangians, though it might be difficult to convince any Scandinavians to come here.

[Pluvious]

39. Zing !

Link to tweet

US Secret Service Director James Murray resigned to join Snapchat - guess he prefers to work in a place where text messages automatically disappear...

[crickets]

42. Interesting timing.

"officials say his resignation is unrelated"

Well, officials have been saying a lot of things lately, things that aren't necessarily true.

[RussBLib]

44. have to change that phone number

... for J6 Committee staffers that was in that document. Gonna get some crank calls.

Also, the doc says that all docs relevant to J6 were requested from any DHS entity on 1/16/21, and again on 3/25/21. Is the USSS under DHS? Maybe that's why they didn't have any docs from the USSS?

So, instead of "her emails!" could it be "his texts!"