Secret Service hands agents' phone numbers to Jan. 6 committee: Sources

[groundloop]

Source: CNN

The U.S. Secret Service has given the House Jan. 6 committee a listing of all personal cell phone numbers belonging to agents based in Washington, D.C., for the period the panel is investigating, according to sources familiar with the matter -- an unusual step amid heightened scrutiny of the agency's cooperation with the congressional panel investigating last year's insurrection and the role then-President Donald Trump played in it.

The committee can now determine which agents' call records they may want to review and, if they decide to do so, could either request records from the agents directly or conceivably issue subpoenas to their cell phone providers, an official familiar with the situation explained.

The Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the agency, have faced criticism in recent weeks for wiping text messages belonging to agents on and around Jan. 6, 2021. Congressional Democrats have accused the Homeland Security inspector general of abandoning efforts to collect text and phone records from that day.

Seeking and obtaining information from personal devices from federal workers is a "highly unusual" step by the committee, according to Don Mihalek, a retired senior Secret Service agent, and could reflect a renewed effort by the agency to further demonstrate its cooperation with congressional investigators.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/secret-service-hands-agents-phone-numbers-jan-committee/story?id=88045692

[Groundhawg]

1. how many more days before this is wrapped up?

[enough]

2. Wrapped up? It's just starting.

[Groundhawg]

3. for some reason i was thinking there was 6 days total hearings. I hope they go on until 45 is toast

[thesquanderer]

7. As Netflix would say, "Its Official, Another Season is Coming!" n/t

[G2theD]

8. They said there will be more hearings in September.

And I cannot wait!

[AKwannabe]

10. Days????

Uh, gonna be YEARS!
Already has been!

[Baked Potato]

4. The Fall Season should be good. Hope to see some Perp walks.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

5. This just sounds like a diversionary tactic to me.

[moniss]

9. I lean towards that

as well. What about burner phones etc.? It should be illegal for any government elected official or employee to have one. The penalties for obstruction, witness tampering, destruction/failure to keep records and destruction of evidence need to be escalated way higher than they are currently.

[msfiddlestix]

12. ✔️ n/t

[PerceptionManagement]

6. republicans obstructing justice knowing no accountability

[Novara]

11. I wonder how likely it is they were using personal cell phones and gov't-issued cell phones that day

My company provides us with company-issued cell phones. Most people use theirs exclusively - for company and personal use. I do not. But I carry a handbag so i always carry both phones with me.

Maybe it's a lack of imagination on my part, but would Secret Service agents carry two phones with them and use both on a day when an insurrection broke out at the Capitol?

[msfiddlestix]

13. Good Question..

I do not put any faith that what is being reported will deliver transparency at the end of this query.

I don't see cell phone carriers cooperating either.

[Novara]

14. It looks like an empty gesture to me.

[msfiddlestix]

18. Me too. Looks like it may just be a matter of time when the waft of the Rot ...

begins to permeate through air in Foggy Bottom. Unless they cremated everything.

I guess if we keep the faith, we'll just forget this happened eventually.

[Novara]

19. I know a guy who knows a guy ...

... who was Secret Service in a field office. He said there's NO WAY phones are EVER wiped, period. And this guy supports the orange motherfucker. He worked for the Clinton and Bush administrations but he said even back then, phones are never wiped.

[msfiddlestix]

20. until now? or do you suspect they handed over new burners?

or am I misremembering pertinent deets?

[Novara]

22. I think there's some confusion

This offer is for personal cell phone data. My issue with that is that I doubt the SS agents were carrying personal phones AND their gov't issued phones and using both that day.

My company issues us phones. Most of the employees use theirs for personal and company business. They only carry one phone. I am one of the only employees who carries both personal and company phones, but I carry a handbag every day.

This offer of personal phone data is essentially meaningless.

[Groundhawg]

15. The further away this gets from the date it happened the less likely anything will come of it.

[louis-t]

16. I have a feeling this is going to go on for quite some time

and uncover substantial conspiracy. Deep State, indeed.

[purr-rat beauty]

17. Remove them all, they are compromised

If they are entrusted with the President's life and refuse to abide for the sake of National Security then they are a threat and should be arrested. Have they been charged with obstruction of justice? Contempt of Congress? Conspiracy? Apparently these types get all sorts of breaks.

[Happy Hoosier]

21. It's also "highly unusual" for the USSS to facilitate a coup attempt.

And if that happened, we NEED to know.