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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 5348196" data-attributes="member: 54375">
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<li data-xf-list-type="ol">All the texts from the two weeks before and after 1/6 were deleted.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Prior to its &quot;reset,&quot; the Secret Service&#039;s IT department didn&#039;t do a systemwide backup of text messages. They asked individual agents to do it themselves. This is something that goes way beyond incompetence. There&#039;s not an IT manager on the planet who would do this unless they literally didn&#039;t care if it got done and were only checking a box for legal reasons.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">There&#039;s no sign that anyone on the IT staff ever did anything more than send an email with backup instructions. They didn&#039;t call agents to walk them through it. They didn&#039;t tell agents to email them when they had done the backup. They kept no records of who had confirmed their backups and who hadn&#039;t.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Apparently not one single agent actually followed instructions to perform a backup. Not one.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Even after 1/6—which should have shook them up a bit—and even after Congress had explicitly asked the Secret Service to preserve information about 1/6, they blithely went ahead with the reset despite the certain knowledge that it would result in the loss of data.</li>
</ol>Kevin Drum</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 5348196, member: 54375"] [LIST=1] [*]All the texts from the two weeks before and after 1/6 were deleted. [*]Prior to its "reset," the Secret Service's IT department didn't do a systemwide backup of text messages. They asked individual agents to do it themselves. This is something that goes way beyond incompetence. There's not an IT manager on the planet who would do this unless they literally didn't care if it got done and were only checking a box for legal reasons. [*]There's no sign that anyone on the IT staff ever did anything more than send an email with backup instructions. They didn't call agents to walk them through it. They didn't tell agents to email them when they had done the backup. They kept no records of who had confirmed their backups and who hadn't. [*]Apparently not one single agent actually followed instructions to perform a backup. Not one. [*]Even after 1/6—which should have shook them up a bit—and even after Congress had explicitly asked the Secret Service to preserve information about 1/6, they blithely went ahead with the reset despite the certain knowledge that it would result in the loss of data. [/LIST] Kevin Drum [/QUOTE]

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