I guess that there is no government agency or institution which interacted with Donald Trump that is above suspicion. Now the Secret Service is coming under scrutiny again. Intercept:
The Secret Service erased text messages from January 5 and January 6, 2021, according to a letter given to the January 6 committee and reviewed by The Intercept. The letter was originally sent by the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General to the House and Senate homeland security committees. Though the Secret Service maintains that the text messages were lost as a result of a “device-replacement program,” the letter says the erasure took place shortly after oversight officials requested the agency’s electronic communications.
The Secret Service did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Secret Service has emerged as a key player in the explosive congressional hearings on former President Donald Trump’s role in the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, in an attempt to prevent the 2020 election results from being certified. That day, then-Vice President Mike Pence was at the Capitol to certify the results. When rioters entered the building, the Secret Service tried to whisk Pence away from the scene.
This issue with Mike Pence saying, “I’m not getting into that car,” has been commented on over and again. Maybe the text messages that were deleted hid some sinister action. It’s pretty obvious and has been since word of Pence’s comment first came to light, that Pence feared he might be kidnapped or possibly even assassinated. In all events, him fleeing the Capitol at that time would not have been good optics.
But, the Office of Inspector General letter suggests, key evidence in the form of the Secret Service’s electronic communications may never see the light of day. The Department of Homeland Security — the Secret Service’s parent agency — is subject to oversight from the DHS Office of Inspector General, which had requested records of electronic communications from the Secret Service between January 5 and January 6, 2021, before being informed that they had been erased. It is unclear from the letter whether all of the messages were deleted or just some. Department officials have also pushed back on the oversight office’s records request by arguing that the records must first undergo review by DHS attorneys, which has delayed the process and left unclear if the Secret Service records would ever be produced, according to the letter.
And once again, Tony Ornato’s name comes up, the Secret Service man who went to work for Trump as a deputy chief of staff.
A top Secret Service official allegedly involved in the attempt to spirit away Pence on January 6 remains in a leadership position at the agency. Tony Ornato, a Secret Service agent whom Trump made the unprecedented decision to appoint as his deputy White House chief of staff, reportedly informed Pence’s national security adviser, Keith Kellogg, on January 6 that agents would relocate the vice president to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. “You can’t do that, Tony,” Kellogg reportedly told Ornato. “Leave him where he’s at. He’s got a job to do. I know you guys too well. You’ll fly him to Alaska if you have a chance. Don’t do it.” (Ornato has denied the account.)
Ornato says a lot of things, we are told, and then denies them later. This isn’t good optics for the Secret Service. We can say that much.
Biden MUST replace Trump’s employee “hold-overs”! They are keeping U.S. from going forward to JUSTICE!
Wow, that’s not suspicious, deleting them, right after they were requested. No, not suspicious at all. /s
Per Palmer Report, it just got worse. Secret Service spokesman just came out and came within two inches of saying the Homeland Security IG made the whole thing up. Why this is a problem: 1) the IG would have given the SS a chance to respond before issuing this report, which makes this denial rather…odd and 2) the spox wouldn’t have issued this without clearance from the outgoing director (who you may recall is suddenly leaving at the end of the lava)…unless the chain of command has been broken.
So, yeah, not good.
“Device Replacement Program.” Oh, how convenient.
I hate to say it but here’s where Mike Pence might have had some invaluable knowledge. Text messages go out over wireless routes, and every thing that goes into the ether is recorded by the National Security Agency. Now, if it’s Americans communicating with Americans (calls, texts, emails via phones etc.) then that stuff isn’t kept. Or at least isn’t supposed to be absent a warrant to hold on to it. It’s really, really difficult to totally erase every single trace of an electronic message and the NSA is one of the reasons why. Given Flynn’s years in that world he just might have had some valid connections with slimeballs at Ft. Meade that hit the right keystrokes in the right places. Let’s hope not.
Uh yup. If not Flynn – then who? Device Replacement Program is the worst bull shit the SS could have come up with. As if. How many Russian assets are in the SS and other government positions? I don’t wear a tin hat either. Then add in those Amerikan assholes that thought 45 was the guy to bring them all into control and create a Fascist country? Just given what Pence said – he knew and still knows who is not a patriot in the SS.
yeah, right – those go through servers, and they deleted them AFTER they were ordered to produce them. There should be backups.
All the SS individuals involved with this piece of criminal bull shit need to be arrested immediately. Device replacement my ass. There was no conceivable reason, not one not intended to be a cover-up that is, for such a thing to happen. Every fucking ‘pube and queer anon are all “but her emails, her servers”…soooo what now pube pieces of shit? hmmmmmm? How about it queer anon idiots? Are we outraged about THIS? Of course not, that would demonstrate consistency.
Lock the conspirators up! Every last one. Put their asses in front of a grand jury & see what the traitors have to say under oath. Catch one in a lie & march his ass to jail.
I replace my mobile device every two years and unless I manually delete a text string, they migrate to the new device. I call Bravo Sierra on this claim.