Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig tells Meet the Press NOW other federal agencies are “shocked” by the level of discretion the Secret Service is given
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If agents were worried about those texts enough to delete, they can be blackmailed for it too. They should lose their clearance
The Secret Service is peopled by human beings. I have known one. from an earlier Administration. They get very chummy with POTUS. They are just as vulnerable as any of us when they feel comfortable enough to talk out of school. They are NOT the “Guardians.” Better turn to Cleveland for them.
Ten years in prison for every perpetrator – Tampering with Federal Documents. Even the “good ones”! Accountability for ALL!
No wonder they want to keep everything Secret…
The lack of urgency and the limited comprehension of what’s happening here is just incredible to watch.
The agency which is tasked with the security of the President, his home, his workplace, his family, his colleagues, and the infrastructure of your executive branch in its entirety, IS DIRECTLY IMPLICATED in a terrorist attack against the United States.
This isn’t *just* about people breaking rules. It isn’t *just* about people acting unethically in government. This is about the most powerful agency in America when it comes to the continuity of government showing that it has been compromised by a domestic terrorist organization, and no one seems to actually be able to comprehend just how insanely dangerous this is.
These people attacked the United States. Many of them are still in their jobs at the USSS. The agency itself has lied and destroyed evidence.
These people still have access to national security information pertaining to the layout of government buildings, the locations of secure facilities, the processes of protecting vital persons, and the locations of those persons at any given hour of the day or night.
These people allowed Powell, Giuliani and others direct access to the White House before Jan 6th, in which they had full-blown shouting matches with administration staff and the President in how to overthrow the American government.
WHY HAS THIS AGENCY NOT BEEN SHUT THE F DOWN AND EVERYONE ARRESTED?
Let’s see Pelosi are engaged in insider trading and everyone else have to follow the rules. Not likely.
These guys are an embarrassment. The hookers & excess drinking on overseas trips.
Audit the SS…
She said there might be some salacious info like affairs. Like Paige and Strozk from the FBI that seemed to be fine agents but their affair through texts ruined their careers. Could also be texts of what they REALLY thought of the commander in chief. “Fat Guy spent eighty minutes in the bathroom and now it smells like Hell’s toxic landfill.”
For the record, I’m not anti Secret Service. One former Secret Service member is a deacon at my church. Top notch guy. I read a book that he wrote. These people are dedicated professionals for the most part. This text scandal is unfortunately casting a terrible light on the whole organization. I also respect the FBI and police, but recognize that there are individuals in law enforcement agencies that take advantage of not being held accountable by their peers.
Criminal cover up ss
There is always a backup. If you’re in the field you know where to look. If you can’t find them it’s because you’re not really trying. Hire the Israelis, they’ll find them.
they have nothing so now they are gonna move on to stuff that has nothing to do with issue. this is why nobody cares about the sham january overreach committee. If dems are OK with the DOJ being used as a tool i hope they dont complain when we turn the tables on them in 2024 and use it to investigate every DEM. gonna be fun!
FBI deleted text during the Michael Flynn trial.
Russia, if you’re listening — I hope you are able to find those emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Let’s see if that happens.”
Well look at who their Commander in Chief was. He didn’t take the leadership of this country seriously. So why should they. Leardership starts at the top. People don’t do what you say. They only do what you do. A true leader makes good leaders out of his people under him. That’s a True Leader.
Political theater is becoming as boring as it is predictable.
When the only choices you have are fear, hate, or ignorance, isn’t it time to admit that what we are doing isn’t working? The two party system has failed…..for decades. All of these politicians are trash, from top to bottom, the ones you like and the ones you hate and all of them in between. All of them. Trash.
But we have a chance to change things.
There are over 450 seats up for election this year between the House and Senate, so we have a chance to get rid of a lot of people. We will find out in a few months if the people want things to change or if the people still want to just talk about wanting things to change.
She’s kidding right? Not nefarious? I’m sure that’s why they’ve all lawyered up.
Wow, even the military doesnt put up with that crap.
Gimme a break, we can’t find a few messages. We bragg that we know everything that happens around the world especially in Russia and China without wanting to expose our sources and methods. Is that also a lie ??
Yes it is criminal wtf people !!! If we destroy evidence it’s doesn’t matter why
I smell a Trump rat
…Secret Service will need to be revamped…
Oh so you mean they are acting like everyone else who works for the gov? And who cares if some of them got caught texting about their extra maretial affairs. like why was this even brought up? what point was she trying to make by saying that. She could have said anything else but made that one of her staple remarks. Oh no! some of them got caught texting about cheating on their wives. everyone stop the presses! This is a national security issue! lol
Prison for these fools
Only the best in the Trump era! 🤦
It’s like a Wild Wild West Tv show. The SS has leadership problems. Each every man woman TV needs to be investigated.
In spite of the fact “secret” is in their name, what do they need to keep secret? Apparently it’s their own peccadilloes and those of the people they watch. Maybe if that wasn’t what they are so damned concerned about keeping secret, we’d have a professional service does its job without acting like a praetorian guard. It needs to be cleansed from top to bottom to get the trump gunk out of it.
Secret Service needs ability to erase texts, internal actions in protecting the POTUS could be compromised. Should not divulge names either as it weakens the agents anonymity. Agents that are outed to the public are put on a short road to retirement.
Lol the secret service losing texts? No. Hotel front desk loses less info than they do apparently
There is a cover up going on in the Secret Service.
I’m sorry . . . did she just say “it WASN’T NEFARIOUS TO DELETE INCRIMINATING EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE?!”
Guess there’s a challenge for the hackers.
It appears that the head of the Secret Service pledged his loyalty to Trump when was auditioning for the job! There can be no other explanation!
My question is: The moment these records couldn’t be provide, why wasn’t Hell’s own fury brought down on the Secret Service leaders to produce those texts and in addition, recover all of the cell phones so they couldn’t be ‘accidentally’ lost of destroyed. We, Democrats, need to stop acting as if we are dealing with honorable people playing by the same rules of conduct we do. We need to take every IMMEDIATE step we can to protect this country from Trump and his true believers.
Remember when Hillary Clinton defied a congressional subpoena and deleted tens of thousands of emails stored on a PRIVATE SERVER? Pepperidge farms remembers
I worked for years for our local city government. We were told – and reminded frequently – that we should not text or email anything we wouldn’t want to see on the front page of our local paper. Enough said!
ALL government employees’ – including using these secret service agents’ texts and emails and phones – are NOT private – they are paid with government/citizens’ monies. No excuses, no exceptions!
Get rid of chuck and make Meet the Press something Good Again !! Since chuck took over as im Sure NBC Knows it’s been going Down Hill ! Fact’s are Fact’s
Yeah, right. Then why didn’t the Secret Service delete ALL of their texts?
Omg lol, hearing this and reading the comments make me sure that people don’t know much about how transportation and security detail of the president and ex-presidents work. Man this is the broadest reaching for a story you can get. Lol sad.
Hey chuck? Rating so bad you losing your job ? Lol
The Dems have not only dropped the ball, they picked it back up and ran the wro.ng way with it. Justice used to matter.
Was chuck shaking or bouncing ?
It wouldnt be the Secret Service if they didnt have secrets.
Very true.
Oh my god, are you serious? NBC is a joke
Let’s go back to 1963 in Dallas the night before the assassination of John F Kennedy. Half of the Secret Service may be more details that were assigned to protect JFK were hung over or still drunk the next morning during that motorcade. This is not a new problem we’re just shining a spotlight on it because we’ve just let it happen all these years with no official scrutiny involved.
Our government is SO corrupt!😡 The swamp is very deep!😡
These are the people getting closest to the key leaders. These guys should never behave in a way creating distrust- which the agency now has succeeded 100% with.
The only way these texts will not be able to be retrieved is if they burn down those phones. Now if the secret service used any third-party software to completely erase those texts, then this shows premeditated intent, thus is a crime and should warrant a federal investigation for cyber crimes against the United States.
#IndictThemALL
The dirtier they are the more they want to stay hidden.
I would suggest this is not normal. I would suggest those who do not should be prosecuted with obstruction and immediately fired.
We all get the secret service has a super important job. But its not coincidence that these texts went missing. Its not. Trump may have told them to get rid of the texts and their boss that’s on him. But its also on them bc they swore an oath to the institution, not the man.
They work for the United States government, they are not a praetorian guard. I had to reset my phone recently phone recently, I was easily able to backup the data and restore it. They are lying.
Need to start cleaning this BS up, and make these People accountable. Start making examples out of these people. Prison time lots of it, no longer serve in any type of government again.
Trumpbaters will do anything for their master
The Secret Service has been politicized for several administrations, but became pattern behavior under Trump. You bet not just Secret Service, but Homeland Security wants to hide their texts…and it’s not for national security
heads need to roll, the fbi should be raiding secret service agents just like they do everyone else.
Spare me the excuses.
I had a family member in the Secret Service. They screw off much more than anyone outside the organization knows.
“SS Officers” Yes, that is what they think they are. Disgusting.
Chicken liver bad egg security
Talk show boy please shut up
Why is Joe Biden such a coward,why doesn’t he fire the head of the secret service..
‘Panzees, 2016-2022: Hillary’s EmAiLs! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!
Also ‘panzees, 2022: Secret Service tex–Look over there! Biden closed his eyes during a ceremony!
Deleting text after told not to is very suspicious, they need to be investigated and if they broke the law they should be indicted.
I’ve never ever liked any type of law enforcement and this just proves how corrupt and underhanded they all are. I mean it’s sickening. Secret service are there to protect the president and their sitting around goofing off. It’s no wonder why they didn’t want to hand anything over. ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING!!
The text messages are on hunter biden laptop. and Gulliani’s phone.
But… But…. Her emails
Yall should worry about your own goddam text messages
Jill Biden was married when she was boffing her boss Joe Biden.
“there’s nothing wrong with what the secret service did. They’re just used to getting away with murder……? ” 😳
Just tell it like it is: The Secret Service is infamous for being screw ups and incompetent….and believing they are above the law.
What a load of crap!
Hmmm Ester you got an interesting secret butt…. Oops , delete 😬
I think the secret service needs a good housecleaning
Too suspicious. ON the DAY before and the DAY of the insurrection? How many of the SS agents were completely in Camp Trump and working to handle coaxing Pence into the car only for him to have some kind of nasty accident so they could appoint a new VP that would do what Trump wanted. Comms probably expose some of this and would implicate SS in a plot like this. Also, Pence must have gotten a whiff of that stink and didnt take the bait, or was tipped off by an honest agent. OR there could they could implicate agents in a far worse plot than this!
The Secret Service. Another American institution that goes on the corruption scrap heap.
…h00kers in Colombia…drunken brawling in foreign capital hotels…is anyone surprised? The dept. needs a thorough disinfecting…starting at the top.
Use the techies. We can’t afford to let this slide.
Yes, it DOES mean deleting information is ‘nefarious’ Look the word up & learn what it means. “Nefarious” would include every call about husbands cheating and drug purchases as well as Jan 6. Jan 6 is not the only bad thing that can be done on a phone. When police investigate crimes they don’t just ignore evidence of other crimes, why is the SS above the law? Oh, right, USA 2-tier justice system.
I would love to see these arrogant MFs revealed for what they are.
“…doesn’t mean it’s nefarious” Is she DUMB??? Or does she just assume we are?!
So they compromised themselves by having affairs. Those agents should lose their security clearances. Seems some in-depth investigation and cleansing needs to be done.
Why in America a man called trump been voted as the president or.. a commander in chief, and the same Man refused to obeyed the constitution, and still wants to be trusted again. I can’t believe that, this can happen in America.
That will be shame to the party and it’s supporters.
It’s time for lie detectors to find out if there are ant traitors in the secret service!
GUARANTEED, the Gov’t already has all the texts before they were erased, once they were erased that sealed their fate…. I hear the chains a comin! ⛓️ 🔗 ⛓️ 🔗 ⛓️ 🔗 🚔 🚓 👮♀️ 🚨
Keep the popcorn 🍿 comin…….
America is corrupt from top to bottom and MUST be destroyed…
Well that is one solution. Let’s say we try
and fix things first before the destruction starts ?
https://youtu.be/0M6-el4zCH8
What a joke NBC is.
Burn the nazis
Cops being cops. Criming and covering up crimes. It’s almost like the police are criminals… 🤷
If “flouting rules day and night” is not nefarious, what WOULD you qualify as nefarious?
U.S.S.S. is a branch of Homeland Security what does the man responsible Alejandro Mayorkas have to say ?
We dont own the secret service they are their to do job and go home like everyone else they are paid to protect some real pond scum hunter joe and democrats they need a raise
Trump SS Agent text to Pence SS Agent: “POTUS wants you to make sure Pence gets in that car and when he does, drive him to Mexico City”
Fire these people
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The Secret Service likes to keep it that way. Don’t they have an acceptable use policy for tech, like every other govt agency and private business?