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Useful idiot? Admits doors opened from inside.......... maybe she should talk to nan.
They musta forgot about the Meuller team deleting everything before handing their phones over....at least 27 of them.![]()
U.S. Secret Service deleted texts sought in Jan. 6 probe, watchdog says – [your]NEWS
The U.S. Secret Service deleted text messages from Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, 2021 after they were requested by oversight officials investigating the agency's response to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the agency watchdog has claimed.yournews.com
U.S. Secret Service deleted texts sought in Jan. 6 probe, watchdog says
Jul 15, 2022
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WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Secret Service deleted text messages from Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, 2021 after they were requested by oversight officials investigating the agency’s response to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the agency watchdog has claimed.
The Secret Service disputed that accusation on Thursday, saying some phone data was lost during a routine device migration, but that all of the requested texts had been saved.
In a letter to the House of Representatives and Senate Homeland Security Committees investigating the events of Jan. 6, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) inspector general’s office (OIG) said “many” messages had been erased by the Secret Service with a device-replacement program after the watchdog asked for the records.
It was not clear from the letter what messages the inspector general’s office believed had been deleted or what evidence they might contain.
After the letter was published on Thursday, Bennie Thompson, who chairs both the congressional panel probing the Capitol attack and the House Homeland Security Committee, told the Axios news website the alleged deletion was “concerning.”
“If there’s a way we can reconstruct the texts or what have you, we will,” Thompson said.
The DHS did not respond to a request for comment late on Thursday.
In a lengthy statement issued in response to the accusations, a Secret Service spokesman said the agency had “fully” cooperated with the inspector general’s office.
“DHS OIG requested electronic communications for the first time on Feb. 26, 2021, after the migration was well under way,” spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. “The Secret Service notified DHS OIG of the loss of certain phones’ data, but confirmed to OIG that none of the texts it was seeking had been lost in the migration.”
Guglielmi said that despite the assertions of the inspector general’s office, its employees had been granted “appropriate and timely access” to the materials.
The Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol followed weeks of false claims by Trump that he won the 2020 election. On Tuesday, lawmakers of the House panel probing the attack accused Trump of inciting the violence in a last-ditch bid to remain in power after losing the election. read more
Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington, Editing by Rosalba O’Brien and Edwina Gibbs
But the smoking gun is a memo from the Inspector General which reveals that President Trump wanted to avoid - not incite - violence.But the hearings have been undercut by a fundamental fact: Trump's actions before the riot began included urging supporters to "peacefully and patriotically" express their opinions and ordering his top aides to ensure there was a large contingent of National Guard troops at the ready to ensure no trouble ensued.
A Capitol Police timeline obtained by Just the News shows the Trump Pentagon first offered National Guard troops to the Capitol Police on Jan. 2, 2021, four full days before the event. The police turned down the offer but then began to have second thoughts. The Capitol Police then asked their political minders — the House sergeant at arms chief among them — for permission to accept the troops on Jan. 4 but were turned down on the ground that such a show of force would create bad "optics," the records show.
"Right-wing extremists are talking about tunnels below the Capitol Complex and the allegiances of USCP officers," said Capitol Police intelligence expert John T. Nugent Jr. in a Dec. 21, 2020 email to the department's Intelligence and Interagency Coordination Division.Even as key security officials were shrinking from deploying National Guard troops lest the "optics" send the wrong political message, the Capitol Police was being flooded by the FBI, the Marshal's Service and the Homeland Security Department with raw intelligence warning of possible violence, Just the News reported recently.
Those intelligence reports, which started flowing more than two weeks before the riot, flagged online chatter about waging a "bloody war," using nerve gas, concealing guns, and burning down the Supreme Court and specifically flagged two groups for possible trouble, the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. -JTN
HuffPost reported on Aungst’s arrest in February (excerpt):A Lycoming County man awaiting sentencing for illegally entering the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has died.
The death Wednesday of Mark R. Aungst, 47, of South Williamsport, was ruled a suicide, Coroner Charles E. Kiessling Jr. said.
TRENDING: J6 Defendant Mark Aungst Who Pled Guilty to "Parading in US Capitol" Commits Suicide Before Sentencing
Aungst pleaded guilty June 27 in District of Columbia federal court to a charge of demonstrating or parading in a restricted building. His sentencing was scheduled for Sept. 27 before Judge Reggie B. Walton. He could have been sentenced up to six months in prison and fined $5,000.
Aungst and co-defendant Tammy A. Bronsburg, who pleaded guilty to the same charge, traveled by bus to Washington on Jan. 6, 2021 for President Trump’s “stop the steal” rally. They then joined others and marched to the Capitol.
…Neither assaulted a police officer nor stole or damaged government property, the prosecutor had said at a previous court proceeding.
Excerpt from the Statement of Offense agreed to in Aungst’s plea agreement with the Justice Department.A witness who used Facebook to organize a bus trip in support of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election gave up the names of two passengers after they delayed the group’s return to Pennsylvania and one bragged about illegally entering the U.S. Capitol.
Mark Roderick Aungst and Tammy Bronsburg (aka Tammy Butry) are charged with entering a restricted building without lawful authority with intent to impede the orderly conduct of government business and engaging in disorderly or disruptive conduct during a session of Congress.
8. Mark Aungst and Tammy Bronsburg, also known as Tammy Butry, (the
“Defendants”) knew that Congress was convening at the United States Capitol on January 6,
2021, to certify the vote count of the Electoral College of the 2020 Presidential Election. Both
Defendants traveled by bus to Washington, D.C. to attend the “Stop the Steal” rally on January 6.
The bus trip was organized on Facebook by another individual for about 50 people to travel from
Pennsylvania to Washington, D.C.
9. After attending the “Stop the Steal” rally and listening to speeches on January 6,
2021, both Defendants Aungst and Bronsburg decided to join a mass of individuals who marched
toward the U.S. Capitol Building.
10. Outside of the U.S. Capitol Building, the Defendants saw and heard individuals
shouting and encouraging the group to advance forward. After the doors to the U.S. Capitol
Building were breached, the Defendants also entered the U.S. Capitol Building without
permission at approximately 2:46 pm, through the Senate Fire Door by the Parliamentarian’s
Office. They left about ½ minute later
11. They re-entered at approximately 3:05 pm through the Senate Wing Door.
12. While inside the U.S. Capitol Building, the Defendants took photos and videos on
their cell phones documenting their time inside as they walked through the Capitol and into
Senate room S 145.
13. While inside the U.S. Capitol Building, the Defendants encountered members of
law enforcement. Law enforcement instructed the defendants to leave the building.
14. After leaving the United States Capitol Building through the Senate Wing Door
around 3:14 pm, Defendants Aungst and Bronsburg returned to the bus to travel back to
Pennsylvania. While on the bus, both Defendants bragged to other passengers that they had been
inside the United States Capitol.
15. While on the bus, Aungst showed other passengers photos that he had taken while
he and Bronsburg were inside the Capitol Building.
16. Bronsburg posted on Facebook a video that she had taken while inside the Capitol
Building.
17. Defendants Aungst and Bronsburg knew at the time they entered the U.S. Capitol
Building that that they did not have permission to enter the building and the defendants paraded,
demonstrated, or picketed.
CLAIM: Freedom of Information Act requests show a dozen phone calls between Ray Epps’ cell phone and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office a week before the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Such records would not be obtainable through FOIA requests, because Congress is exempt from the law, legal experts say. A spokesperson for Pelosi also confirmed that the claim is false.
THE FACTS: Epps, an Arizona man who was filmed encouraging others to enter the U.S. Capitol the night before the riots, has long been the subject of a baseless conspiracy theory that he is a federal agent who helped orchestrate the insurrection.
There’s no evidence to suggest that Epps was anything but a disgruntled supporter of former President Donald Trump, and Epps has testified to the House committee investigating Jan. 6 that he wasn’t working for law enforcement. But a new false claim based on the conspiracy still circulated widely on Twitter in recent days.
“Freedom of Information Act requests show a dozen phone calls between the cell phone of Ray Epps and the office of Speaker Pelosi in the week before#January6th,” reads the tweet, which was posted on Thursday and has since been retweeted more than 15,000 times. The user, who mostly posts photos of vintage cars, provided no evidence for the claim.
Drew Hammill, a spokesperson for Pelosi, said in an email to The Associated Press that the claim is false. And experts in the Freedom of Information Act — which allows members of the public to request records from federal agencies — confirmed that such information cannot be obtained through a FOIA request.
Congress is not subject to the law, which is limited to the executive branch of the federal government and agencies, experts said.
Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who led questioning in the closing summer hearing of the Jan. 6 committee, tweeted on Friday that the claim was false.
“Take a gander. Absolutely false, literally made up, yet tens of thousands of RT’s, This is what democracy is up against,” Kinzinger said. “It’s time for the uneasy alliance between democracy defending people of all political stripes. #misinformation.”
They are consumed with hatred for Donald Trump.He didn't blink for a minute!
What's he on about his 5th heart transplant now? Amazing how long they live........ unless he is CGI...........
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Published on Aug 4, 2022 by The Babylon Bee.
Maybe but I think I'll believe killary on this one. In the heat of the moment when she said if that bastard wins we will all hang.They are consumed with hatred for Donald Trump.
Too late for that in my opinion. All my venom is aimed straight at the leftists dems , WEF, MSM and NATO.They do that by getting us to hate eachother instead of them
They do that by getting us to hate eachother instead of them.