The House Select Committee has requested info on the service’s emails in relation to the ex-President’s actions on Jan. 6 2021…
The response , as reported in the media, is that some of the emails where ‘erased’…..
(Some data was turned over to the committee)
I’m no expert ….
But?
Data in phone emails seldom become irretiveable ….
Could Donald Trump guardians seem to be hiding something?
The law enforcement agency, whose agents have been embroiled in the Jan. 6 investigation because of their role shadowing and planning President Donald Trump’s movements that day, is expected to share this conclusion with the Jan. 6 committee in response to its Friday subpoena for texts and other records….
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Many of its agents’ cellphone texts were permanently purged starting in mid-January 2021 and Secret Service officials said it was the result of an agencywide reset of staff telephones and replacement that it began planning months earlier. Secret Service agents, many of whom protect the president, vice president and other senior government leaders, were instructed to upload any old text messages involving government business to an internal agency drive before the reset, the senior official said, but many agents appear not to have done so.
The result is that potentially valuable evidence — the real-time communications and reactions of agents who interacted directly with Trump or helped coordinate his plans before and during Jan. 6 — is unlikely to ever be recovered, two people familiar with the Secret Service communications system said…
As predicted….
People gonna need to get lawyers….
Criminal Probe Opened Into Deleted Secret Service Texts
“The Department of Homeland Security’s internal watchdog has opened a criminal investigation into the destruction of Secret Service phone text messages related to the days around the Jan. 6 Capitol riot,” CNBC reports.
Secret Service Identified Potential Missing Texts
“Secret Service investigators were scrutinizing the phones of 10 Secret Service personnel that contained metadata showing text messages were sent and received around January 6, 2021, but were not retained,” CNN reports.
“Investigators had been working to determine whether the content of the text messages sent by the 10 personnel contained relevant information that should have been preserved… Among the 24 Secret Service personnel under scrutiny, 10 other Secret Service personnel had no text messages, and three had only personal records.”
They ARE Lawyering up Yup….
“The committee is also aware that certain Secret Service witnesses have now retained new private counsel. We anticipate further testimony, under oath, and other new information in the coming weeks.”
— Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA), at last night’s January 6 Committee hearing.….
Politicalwire
Come to think of it?
Trump has created a Growth Industry for Defense Lawyers!