First on CNN: DHS inspector general meets with House select committee regarding Secret Service erasi
Source: CNN
The Department of Homeland Security inspector general on Friday briefed all nine members of the House select committee investigating the US Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, about the Secret Service erasing text messages from the day of the riot and the day before.
The inspector general, Joseph Cuffari, met with the committee behind closed doors two days after sending a letter to lawmakers informing them that the text messages were erased after the watchdog agency asked for records related to its electronic communications as part of its ongoing investigation around the Capitol attack.
CNN saw Cuffari and every member of the House committee enter a meeting room on Capitol Hill.
The inspector general originally notified the House and Senate Homeland Security Committees in a letter that the text messages were erased from the system as part of a device-replacement program after the watchdog asked the agency for the records.
First, the Department notified us that many US Secret Service text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021, were erased as part of a device-replacement program. The USSS erased those text messages after OIG requested records of electronic communications from the USSS, as part of our evaluation of events at the Capitol on January 6, Cuffari stated in the letter.
Second, DHS personnel have repeatedly told OIG inspectors that they were not permitted to provide records directly to OIG and that such records had to first undergo review by DHS attorneys, Cuffari added. This review led to weeks-long delays in OIG obtaining records and created confusion over whether all records had been produced.
The Secret Service pushed back on the allegations late Thursday night, saying: The insinuation that the Secret Service maliciously deleted text messages following a request is false.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/15/politics/homeland-security-inspector-general-deleted-text-message/index.html
Uh huh..
MarineCombatEngineer
(12,423 posts)starting with the head honcho all the way down to the lowest employee.
JHB
(37,161 posts)Gary Aldrich or Gary Byrne who writes a bullshit "tell all" book, how many wingnuts are there who just keep their comments clear of public spaces?
(yeah, Aldrich was FBI, but the same applies.)
peppertree
(21,657 posts)captain queeg
(10,238 posts)UpInArms
(51,284 posts)It IS malicious
cloudboy07
(351 posts)machoneman
(4,007 posts)tecelote
(5,122 posts)Yes, it IS malicious
dobleremolque
(492 posts)Who will guard the guards?
Kid Berwyn
(14,951 posts)Not.
The Secret Service is a corrupt agency run by traitors.
No wonder Major was growling.
ShazzieB
(16,497 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,496 posts)Botany
(70,567 posts)The USSS erased those text messages after OIG requested records of electronic communications from the USSS, as part of our evaluation of events at the Capitol on January 6, Cuffari stated in the letter.
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The Secret Service pushed back on the allegations late Thursday night, saying: The insinuation that the Secret Service maliciously deleted text messages following a request is false.
It looks like that S.S. started erasing and delegating the messages they were asked to save the 1/7/22.
Ahna KneeMoose
(302 posts)Your reference to 'USSS' and then to 'Secret Service' and finally to 'S.S.' has not gone un-noticed.
And was appreciated (by me, and no doubt by others as well).
Ferrets are Cool
(21,109 posts)Heads need to roll and people need to go to jail.
jaxexpat
(6,844 posts)DHS attorney reads transcripts of USSS texts and sighs, "....just erase them all, we'll either get away with it or we'll all hang."
cloudboy07
(351 posts)Miguelito Loveless
(4,470 posts)There has to be a backup somewhere that still has them. Carriers are VERY cautious about running sequential daily backups of their systems. They have been deleted from the device, but a backup is sitting somewhere in a carrier's off-site storage.
Cozmo
(1,402 posts)docgee
(870 posts)jaxexpat
(6,844 posts)Paper Roses
(7,474 posts)patphil
(6,204 posts)Why would the OIG not be allowed to directly obtain Secret Service text messages relating to an attack on the Capitol?
And why would it take more than a couple of phone calls to resolve this?
The destruction of government records is a crime. This whole phone replacement stuff is pure BS.
I think we have some Trump loyalists in the Secret Service.
Given this and several other strange happenings in the SS over the past few years require a complete overhaul of their leadership.
Ford_Prefect
(7,918 posts)...Or I've got some very well irrigated vacation property for you.
majdrfrtim
(318 posts). . . maliciously deleted text messages following a request is false.
The reason that insinuation is false is that the deletion operation was METICULOUS, not MALICIOUS.
Sheesh.
/snark