Richard Nixon's secretary Rose Mary Woods erased 18 minutes of tape recording of the president and became infamous in1972. The FBI failed to preserve five months of text messages and expects the American public to believe it was a random mistake.
This is worse than Watergate. The text messages between agents Peter Strozk and Lisa Page are instructive for several reasons.
Second, earlier messages that have been released included not only the involvement of outgoing FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, but the desire of top-level FBI officials to create an “insurance policy” against a Donald Trump presidency.
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ReplyDeleteFROM:12.14.2016(Washington Post article cites unnamed sources stating Russians tried to hack election for Trump)
TO: 5.17.2017(Mueller appointed Special Counsel to lead collusion probe)
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Delete"The FBI failed to preserve"
ReplyDeleteLet's not allow them to lie from the start. They did not "fail to preserve," anything. This data was intentionally deleted. And not by some flunky. This had to be done on the orders of a high ranking official. I know people in IT and IT security. One of my best friends, is one of the top ten security professionals in America. So the idea this was just some goof or happened at the direction of some mid-level nobody, is a lie.
It would take a very senior supervisor to order an IT professional to delete this information. Everyone working in IT knows this is NEVER to be done. Also the idea it is only saved on one drive is also a lie. EVERYTHING is backed-up. If it is important data, it is double and triple backed-up. And just a final thought on backing up data. If the FBI, as so many do use some form of "Cloud" back-up. Then it is impossible to truly "delete" anything. I use a cloud back-up for my data. One night I was clearing old files, and accidentally deleted one. I did not discover my mistake for several months. Yet, when I contacted my service, they had my file restored in less than an hour.
I just cannot accept it was an accident or equipment oops. People in charge are too competent. And let's be honest, first mistake of this magnitude and they would never work in IT security again. No, this was deliberate, and at the orders of very senior officials.
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I just cannot accept it was an accident or equipment oops. People in charge are too competent. And let's be honest, first mistake of this magnitude and they would never work in IT security again. No, this was deliberate, and at the orders of very senior officials.
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The FBI considers itself above any and all laws. They will never answer for this.
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Fingers crossed, here.
DeleteLet the excuses and cover up continue:
ReplyDeleteSenate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.), whose panel is also investigating Russia’s election interference, told CNN Tuesday that the FBI had been cooperative in providing documents to Congress.
“I’m not going to read anything into it other than it may be a technical glitch at the bureau,” he said of the missing texts. “The fact that they have provided the rest of them certainly doesn’t show an intent to try to withhold anything.”
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/370412-gop-feud-with-fbi-ratchets-up
I thought I had posted this and now see I gave it a different title. Thanks.
DeleteI believe you did post, but I thought the excerpt I posted was relevant to Badgers comment and your reply to his, concerning the deletions being an "accident".
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely and thank you.
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