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kpete

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Tue Aug 2, 2022, 12:28 PM Aug 2022

GUARDIAN: Attempted Cover-up - DHS officials interfered in effort to get lost Secret Service texts

Guardian US: New revelations appear to show the chief watchdog for the Secret Service and DHS took deliberate steps to stop the retrieval of texts, and then sought to hide the fact that it had decided not to pursue that evidence.

House panels: DHS officials interfered in effort to get lost Secret Service texts
After the inspector general’s office requested the Secret Service’s January 6 communications, the effort was shut down


Top officials at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) inspector general’s office interfered with efforts to recover erased Secret Service texts from the time of the US Capitol attack and attempted to cover up their actions, two House committees said in a letter on Monday.

Taken together, the new revelations appear to show that the chief watchdog for the Secret Service and the DHS took deliberate steps to stop the retrieval of texts it knew were missing, and then sought to hide the fact that it had decided not to pursue that evidence.

The inspector general’s office had initially sought to retrieve the lost texts from across the DHS – spanning both the Secret Service as well as the former DHS secretary Chad Wolf and his deputy, Ken Cuccinelli – as part of its internal review into January 6.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/02/secret-service-texts-jan-6-dhs-interfered-house-committees

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GUARDIAN: Attempted Cover-up - DHS officials interfered in effort to get lost Secret Service texts (Original Post) kpete Aug 2022 OP
Fire Cuffari NOW! He is a threat to our Democracy MagickMuffin Aug 2022 #1
Florida? usonian Aug 2022 #3
Heads should definitely be rolling. n/t BlueGreenLady Aug 2022 #2

MagickMuffin

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1. Fire Cuffari NOW! He is a threat to our Democracy
Tue Aug 2, 2022, 12:33 PM
Aug 2022


And will continue to be. He doesn't work for the US, he still works for his boss in Florida.


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