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While working at home alone, your email came up and as I read your heading, "

Is the Secret Service Hiding Something?", I instantly said aloud "YES!"

If the Secret Service, previously rumored to contain many MAGAS, can't be honest about dates and doesn't know hardware from software - and doesn't have to back up all official communications, then everyone in the SS needs to reapply for their jobs - except for its leadership, which clearly needs replacement. I find Ms Hutchinson more credible than anything the SS has said on the subject of Trump's antics and these missing messages to date.

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The trump rot has infiltrated every institution in this country. It'll take decades, if not longer to root it all out. Right now, I fear for the safety of not only President Biden and Vice President Harris, but, of former Presidents, who still receive USSS "protection". Turns out, Major Biden was right. Always, always, trust a dog. They know.

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I call BS on the part of the Secret Service. There were obviously Trump loyalists in the service, and VP Pence was correct in not going anywhere with them. He may have had an unfortunate "accident" had he taken that ride. From my limited technology wherewithal, I believe NOTHING is ever truly deleted. We need to recover those messages now.

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Deletion and erasure are not the same. Deleted data is easily recovered, but the USSS used the term erasure, and if anyone ought to know the difference and how to completely erase digital data it is an agency that has "secret" in its name. Let's hope those records are not beyond recovery.

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Jay, thank you for the close attention to

the details, an important part of any investigation. Per Zoe Lofgren , I understand the response to the J6 Committee subpoena is due tomorrow, Tuesday at 6 pm Eastern.

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Why hasn't Pence been questioned? Seems he would have much to say?

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I watched Glenn Kirschner's podcast about this. He said the irony is that, while he was a Federal prosecutor, if a suspect deleted anything from a computer or mobile device, the agency he went to was the Secret Service, because they have a tremendous forensics lab, and if you go to their website, they'll tell you how tremendous it is. There's no reason they couldn't recover those texts and hand them over. Nothing is ever completely gone.

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Okay, I am not familiar with Internet server protocols but I had thought that you were told to never put anything into a text message you did not want to be available to others in the future *precisely* because those servers generally have copies of texts hanging around, and that those texts can be resurrected by law enforcement (and perhaps others).

Am I wrong? And if not shouldn't someone be able to recover those? Hello NSA!

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They thought they were going to overthrow the government and wouldn't have to hide anything. They thought they were going to prevail.

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This is just another example of how corrupt the secret service is. Four agents were placed on leave for allowing two men to infiltrate Biden s security detail and provide the federal officers with tens of thousands of dollars in rent-free apartments and guns. And then there are the ones that used prostitutes under Obama and allowed a guy to breach the fence and enter the White House.

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Trump turned this nation into garbage and he still has idiot’s following him. Any secret service agent that followed his treason agenda should be tried and never work for the country again. The Trump 45th Reich drained the swamp and filled it with rat 🐀 shit . To all the scum swimming in the swamp hold your heads up high as you sink in the swamp so you don’t lose your Nazi helmets.

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After reading Carol Leonnig’s excellent book, Zero Fail, nothing surprises me about that organization. Jay, your succinct analyses are a pleasure to read.

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I thought the service provider retained copies of text messages as they do phone call records.

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I hope you are right.

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Thanks for this post. But how is it possible to subpoena text messages that no longer exist?

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Every new revelation is cause for greater concern for our Democracy, but could we please stop referring to the Secret Service as the SS? Please and thank you.

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Apparently Rosemary Woods is now employed at the USSS.

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Doesn’t Verizon, AT and T or whoever the service provider have the ability to recover the messages. I thought nothing could be completely deleted when comes to electronics. Maybe I’m wrong

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