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Government Corruption
Secret Service Leaves the January 6th Committee and the Press Fuming With Announcement on Supposed 'Evidence'
2022-07-20
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[Red State] How many times can one committee chase its own tail? Every single time Liz Cheney and crew hit a dead end, we are assured that if they just had "this" piece of unobtainable "evidence," the entire Trump "insurrection" conspiracy would be proved true. Committee Chair Bennie Thompson is even quoted as believing these text messages could provide critical details about the Secret Service’s involvement on January 6th.

Do you see where this is going? The January 6th committee has absolutely nothing to prove their grand theory of a Trump-led coup, so now they are looking for a scapegoat to blame their failure on. You see, it wasn’t that their entire investigation was dumb, partisan, and pointless. It’s that it was thwarted by that dastardly Secret Service deleting text messages as part of a phone upgrade. And surely those missing messages provide the smoking gun, right?

The entire thing is farcical. What does the committee think the Secret Service was doing on January 6th? Does anyone really think its leadership and agents were part of an attempt to take over the government? Besides, the deletion of the text messages is being defended by Joe Biden’s own appointee. Is the theory now that Biden officials are pro-January 6th?
Posted by:Besoeker

#11  Try telling the IRS you lost stuff they want for an audit while you were "upgrading your computer."

Yeah, that's the ticket. I'm sure they will be fine with that...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-07-20 13:44  

#10  I strongly suspect there is a federal law against records destruction like the Secret Service admitted to. Not that this matters...
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843   2022-07-20 13:39  

#9  Seems like we need the equivalent of a "blind trust" for gummint data

Well, that's the Amazon Cloud.
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-07-20 12:41  

#8  My guess is that a core belief at the Secret Service, even now, is that if there is EVER a doubt by a President of their commitment to total privacy, they will not be able to do their job effectively. If they breach that cardinal rule and lead on Trump, they will also see Obama, Clinton, Biden stories that will destroy them as well. My father was on the Presidential Detail from 1940 to 1946 and was adamant about never talking out of school even to family.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2022-07-20 12:11  

#7  Someone who is looking like they have something to hide - probably has something to hide.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-07-20 08:18  

#6  Given the talent in the I.T. world....

Unfortunately a good percentage of those folks fall into the 'wokesphere' and wouldn't be of much help.

They saw what happened to Seth Rich.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2022-07-20 08:11  

#5  


Given the talent in the I.T. world and the fact every politician uses I.T. I'd bet we will be seeing Gigabytes of data being leaked on the January 6th committee regarding their private political lynch mob tactics soon.

Either way, I'd welcome an investigation of the investigator's adherence to the actual Law verse party politics? If violations occurred then indicting them for subversion, a ban from political office or holding any government position. Plus full reimbursement of wasted taxpayer funds.
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-07-20 08:06  

#4  Seems like we need the equivalent of a "blind trust" for gummint data. Of course, the blind trusts pols use for their investments (when required) are kabuki, so it's probably wishful thinking.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-07-20 07:48  

#3  The same National Archives that didn't wanna know about Hillary's secret email server and the 30,000+ missing emails? F*ck right off!
Posted by: Frank G   2022-07-20 07:22  

#2  Secret Service now says it does not have ANY texts shared between agents from January 6: National Archives calls for an investigation into whether they were deleted without authorization
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-07-20 07:07  

#1  No, but they were part of an agent provocateur operation to discredit Trump. This is nothing new, the US government has been doing it to its enemies for a long time.

You notice they never actually bother to engage with ideas? It's always that their enemies are horrible people in their personal lives. They pick their noses while at home alone and engage in the same garden-variety corruption as the rest of the DC establishment. And if there's no nose-picking going on, they'll invent some.
Posted by: Albemarle Snerert7268   2022-07-20 06:24  

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