Jan. 6 texts missing for Trump Homeland Security's Wolf and Cuccinelli

[Kid Berwyn]

Source: The Washington Post

Text messages for former President Donald Trump’s acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and acting deputy secretary Ken Cuccinelli are missing for a key period leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, according to four people briefed on the matter and internal emails.

This discovery of missing records for the senior-most homeland security officials, which has not been previously reported, increases the volume of potential evidence that has vanished regarding the time around the Capitol attack.

It comes as both congressional and criminal investigators at the Department of Justice seek to piece together an effort by the president and his allies to overturn the results of the election, which culminated in a pro-Trump rally that became a violent riot in the halls of Congress.

The Department of Homeland Security notified the agency’s inspector general in late February that Wolf’'s and Cuccinelli’s texts were lost in a “reset” of their government phones when they left their jobs in January 2021 in preparation for the new Biden administration, according to an internal record obtained by the Project on Government Oversight and shared with The Washington Post.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/jan-6-texts-missing-for-trump-homeland-security-e2-80-99s-wolf-and-cuccinelli/ar-AA105f4C

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The rot of treason stinks bad and runs deep.

[Cheezoholic]

1. This is big

and it exposes finally a big problem in our government. It has become so large that the transitions between incoming and outgoing administrations are almost never completed, even after 8 years. The politicization has infected the bowels of government service so deeply I'm not sure how to reinstate continuity without a 3 or 4 term executive as we had with FDR.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Yes. Big. They may have been texting Secret Service agents. . . . nt

[Kid Berwyn]

14. Pisswig the Traitor did all he could to derail transition.

Trump is stonewalling Biden's transition. Here's why it matters.

The clock is ticking and foreign adversaries are watching, experts and past government officials said.

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-stonewalling-biden-s-transition-here-s-why-it-matters-n1247768

[BigmanPigman]

2. The Fux Ruse hosts will focus on laptops and missing emails

from Hunter Biden and Hillary and not say one word about this. And this IS a big, fucking deal!!!

[Cheezoholic]

4. Yes youre right

and this is bigger than the missing Nixon tapes. The bigger exposure IMO is a complete corruption of the Executive branch. The power given to the Executive after 9/11 enabling temporary appointments to certain divisions of government in the name of national security until congressional approval just cluster fucked the entire system and greatly empowered the Executive per Dick Cheney's doctrine. This battle of the branches started outright in the 90's when the Neo-Cons realized they could never win an outright election again, and they haven't. 9/11 was their convenient truth IMO.

[BigmanPigman]

13. Bingo!!!

You nailed it.

[Kid Berwyn]

15. Sad how successful propaganda is today.

Flood the zone and lock the doors.



The modern slave masters of minds learned from those who thought themselves the master race:

https://www.johnheartfield.com/John-Heartfield-Exhibition/about-john-heartfield-photomontages/heartfield-photomontage-dada-political/turkish-political-art-dada-fascist/political-photomontage-bostanci

[Skittles]

3. PUT THEM UNDER OATH FOR ELEVEN HOURS

CORRUPT FUCKERS

[Kid Berwyn]

16. The Privileged who are above hypocrisy.

They deserve to be eaten.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

5. 1/6 texts missing for several agencies, 1 1/2 hour gap in WH phone log,

WH photographer prohibited from taking pictures of TFG watching Faux during the insurrection, and just a general disappearance of lots of important evidence to fill in the gaps --

[Kid Berwyn]

17. Charles Pierce observed...

Excerpt…

Sooner or later, coincidence begins to look suspiciously like modus operandi. This is not a scandal in a straight line. It’s not even a single scandal. It’s a mosaic of smaller scandals comprising a larger one, all organized around a central point: the character of El Caudillo del Mar-A-Lago and the enormous blunder this country made in electing him to be its president.

The discovery of missing records for the top officials running the Department of Homeland Security during the final days of the Trump administration raises new questions about what could have been learned, and also about what other text messages and evidence the department and other agencies may have erased, in apparent violation of the Federal Records Act.

This is just the beginning of things, still just the beginning of things. We have no idea where it might end.

Source: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a40753746/homeland-security-missing-texts/

[Lonestarblue]

6. Republicans have been doing things like this for decades--and getting away with it.

Millions of emails were lost during the Bush Administration because they were deleted from private Republican National Committee servers people like Karl Rove were using illegally for government business. There was a big stink about missing email related to the firing of eight US Attorneys plus thousands deleted by staff in VP Cheney’s office about the lead up to the Iraq War. I don’t recall that anyone was ever prosecuted or sent to jail.

Colin Powell and others in the Bush administration regularly used private servers, and the media just shrugged—no big deal. Yet the media, especially the NYT, constantly publicized Hilary doing the same thing. Excerpt abut the breaking news of missing Bush emails:

“The White House email story broke on a Wednesday. Yet on that Sunday's Meet The Press, Face The Nation, and Fox News Sunday, the topic of millions of missing White House emails did not come up. At all. (The story did get covered on ABC's This Week.)

By comparison, not only did every network Sunday news show this week cover the story about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton emails, but they were drowning in commentary. Between Meet the Press, Face The Nation, This Week, and Fox News Sunday, Clinton's “email” or “emails” were referenced more than 100 times on the programs, according to Nexis transcripts. Talk about saturation coverage.” https://www.mediamatters.org/new-york-times/flashback-when-millions-lost-bush-white-house-emails-private-accounts-triggered

The media coverage of Hilary’s emails without ever giving coverage of worse examples from Republicans coat Hilary the election and gave us the worst president in our history. I hope the Trump Republicans who erased email are finally punished. If Karl Rive and others who erased millions of emails had spent some time in jail, Republicans might be a bit more wary about erasing official government documents.

[UpInArms]

8. This 👆🏼

I wish the entire world could know and understand this.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Another journal-worthy post from you this morning. You're really cookin' !

The other I saw: https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=16980688

Click the Add to Journal link.

[Kid Berwyn]

18. Since Nov. 22, 1963

Two Warren Commissioners had extensive ties to NAZI Germany. Both men Played major roles in the rise of post-war fascism. Neither’s relationship with our nation’s enemy was brought to the attention of the American people by our “free press.”

Allen Dulles, as a top official of the OSS and CIA, incorporated NAZI war criminals into the CIA from its founding. John McCloy, as High Commissioner for Germany, allowed Klaus Barbie, Alfred Krupp, eight members of his board, and who-knows-who-else to escape justice. Of course, Dulles and McCloy also were barons of Wall Street and Beltway Insiders, at the heart of the military industrial complex. We all can see what that means for the United States today.

Background:

The American who let the Nazis rebuild Germany

https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/november-2021/the-american-who-let-the-nazis-rebuild-germany/

CIA and NAZI War Criminals

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB146/index.htm

As to the nature of our news media:

The Powell Memo (also known as the Powell Manifesto)

The Powell Memo was first published August 23, 1971

Introduction

In 1971, Lewis Powell, then a corporate lawyer and member of the boards of 11 corporations, wrote a memo to his friend Eugene Sydnor, Jr., the Director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The memorandum was dated August 23, 1971, two months prior to Powell’s nomination by President Nixon to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Powell Memo did not become available to the public until long after his confirmation to the Court. It was leaked to Jack Anderson, a liberal syndicated columnist, who stirred interest in the document when he cited it as reason to doubt Powell’s legal objectivity. Anderson cautioned that Powell “might use his position on the Supreme Court to put his ideas into practice…in behalf of business interests.”

Though Powell’s memo was not the sole influence, the Chamber and corporate activists took his advice to heart and began building a powerful array of institutions designed to shift public attitudes and beliefs over the course of years and decades. The memo influenced or inspired the creation of the Heritage Foundation, the Manhattan Institute, the Cato Institute, Citizens for a Sound Economy, Accuracy in Academe, and other powerful organizations. Their long-term focus began paying off handsomely in the 1980s, in coordination with the Reagan Administration’s “hands-off business” philosophy.

Most notable about these institutions was their focus on education, shifting values, and movement-building — a focus we share, though often with sharply contrasting goals.* (See our endnote for more on this.)

So did Powell’s political views influence his judicial decisions? The evidence is mixed. Powell did embrace expansion of corporate privilege and wrote the majority opinion in First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, a 1978 decision that effectively invented a First Amendment “right” for corporations to influence ballot questions. On social issues, he was a moderate, whose votes often surprised his backers.

CONTINUED...

http://reclaimdemocracy.org/powell_memo_lewis/

Those who appreciate media like Mother Jones might like these TUC Radio pieces on Alex Carey — Noam Chomsky’s inspiration.

Time of Useful Consciousness...

Alex Carey said that the people of the US have been subjected to an unparalleled, expensive, 3/4 century long propaganda effort designed to expand corporate rights by undermining democracy and destroying the unions. Carey’s unique view of US history goes back to World War I and ends with the Reagan era.

https://tucradio.org/podcasts/newest-podcasts/alex-carey-corporations-and-propaganda-part-one-of-two/

And Part the 2nd:

https://tucradio.org/podcasts/newest-podcasts/alex-carey-corporations-and-propaganda-part-two-of-two/

[Lonestarblue]

20. Thank you for this. I had forgotten some of the evil of Allen Dulles.

You’ve most likely read the book, The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War. If not, it’s a fascinating—and angering—read about the machinations of the Dulles brothers to use the power of the US government to overturn elections, as in Iran, and to remake the world for the moneyed class.

[yellowcanine]

7. But her emails!

Someone had to say it.

[Novara]

10. I'm sure they're in the same place as the missing secret service texts

If you're not doing anything criminal, why the coverup?

[Lulu KC]

12. The more we learn about the apparent advance planning

the more surprised I am that things didn't work out better for them. They botched it! Thank God!

[nowforever]

19. Democrats need to use powerful language

I keep seeing Democrats respond to the Trump insurrection with a clinicical and cautious style. We need some fire breathers that describe what happened with the the same verve and intensity when the GOP attacks. This soft intelligent rhetoric doesn't reach the skeptical or curious. Say things like "The criminal conduct of destroying texts and communications is both treasonous and treacherous and eats at the foundation of our Democracy" or "It is clear what went on is criminal in nature, knowingly disposing of and destroying government documents is against the law. Such conduct must be investigated and prosecuted or our Nation will no longer be ruled by law but by corruption and criminal enterprise", no more soft talk...tough talk that wakes up the people and shines a light on truth.

[sybylla]

21. A department with "Homeland" in it's title going rogue.

Who could have seen this coming?

Answer: Most people on DU when the effing thing was created.

Time to break it up and charge those in charge with felonies.

[duckworth969]

22. IG Cuffari is Trump appointee

His inaction on issues since after 2020 election has been very damaging to J6 investigation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Cuffari