This is complete horsecrap.
The FBI “failed to preserve” five months worth of text messages exchanged between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, the two FBI employees who made pro-Clinton and anti-Trump comments while working on the Clinton email and the Russia collusion investigations.
The disclosure was made Friday in a letter sent by the Justice Department to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC).
“The Department wants to bring to your attention that the FBI’s technical system for retaining text messages sent and received on FBI mobile devices failed to preserve text messages for Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page,” Stephen Boyd, the assistant attorney general for legislative affairs at the Justice Department, wrote to Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, the chairman of HSGAC.
He said that texts are missing for the period between Dec. 14, 2016 and May 17, 2017.
Key date to keep in mind is May, 17, 2017. That was the day Mueller was named special counsel for the Russia investigation. https://t.co/6M2pOIPZbS
— Nick Short 🇺🇸 (@PoliticalShort) January 21, 2018
Boyd attributed the failure to “misconfiguration issues related to rollouts, provisioning, and software upgrades that conflicted with the FBI’s collection capabilities.”
“The result was that data that should have been automatically collected and retained for long-term storage and retrieval was not collected,” Boyd wrote.
Alright already-are we supposed to believe the FBI is criminally treasonous or completely incompetent. Which way do we go?
We need to do a midnight raid on all intelligence offices and seize all hard drives and servers before the destruction of any further evidence occurs.
It’s OK. They were all about yoga.
Seriously, why do they even bother making up an excuse? Only an idiot would believe any of their weak-ass excuses anyway and those people vote Democrat no matter what.
@Bill… Deplorable Me: As convicted felons they may lose the right to vote at all
This last admin had a real problem with technology too friggin stupid to hold the positions they do.
Maybe somebody in charge at FBI should be put in jail and they could “lose” the key.
What do you mean lose the emails? Wrong. Produce them or go to jail for obstruction.
@BunsonHoneydew:
I bet it would start RAINING texts then.
How…convenient.
How…coincidental.
And so not the first time we’ve heard this story from the feds lately.
It’s like none of the ‘career professional’ IT folks in any branch of the government have ever heard of the term ‘back-up’.
cue confused Hillary voiceover “What, like in a car?”
I worked for a local governmental agency subject to state records retention requirements. Our IT department ran a backup every day. EVERY. DAY.
And made a redundant backup before any new ‘rollouts’ or ‘software upgrades’.
Surely the IT folks hired for the premier law enforcement agency in the world should be at least as competent and professional as the ones working for a small time company in Podunkville USA?
Unless the term ‘upgrade’ for the feds really means ‘scrubbing any inconvenient facts before the Congressional hearing’.
Particularly interesting in terms of this tidbit I recalled from researching Mueller’s background:
Hmmm…so if the FBI and/or NSA have ‘recorded and stored’ ‘all digital communications in the past’ so that ‘they can certainly find that out’ about you and me…why is it THEIR communications (especially highly inconvenient ones) can vanish into the ether?
Wonder if they can polish the tarnish off their reputation “like with a cloth”.
@Bill… Deplorable Me: They just make up tons of rules no one follows and no one is accountable lalala isnt it a wonder our spies get busted in China.
One way or another, rules and laws have not been followed or been broken. So, fire the guy that was supposed to monitor what kind of phones agents used. Fire the guy that was supposed to make sure communications were archived. Fire the people that destroyed government (taxpayer) property. Prosecute to the fullest extent where applicable. THEN see who starts singing like a canary about who suggested or directed these various illegal or improper activities to be carried out.
I think the OIG of the FBI needs to be beefed up with reliable, honest people.