Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Joseph Cuffari, a Trump appointee, yesterday sent a surprising letter to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and its House counterpart. The letter said that the Department of Homeland Security had notified Cuffari’s office that “many U.S. Secret Service (USSS) text messages, from January 5 and 6, 2021, were erased as part of a device-replacement program. The USSS erased those text messages after OIG [Office of Inspector General] requested records of electronic communications from the USSS, as part of our evaluation of events at the Capitol on January 6.” Further, the letter said, DHS personnel had repeatedly refused to produce records without first showing them to attorneys, which had created long delays and confusion over “whether all records had been produced.”
Thank you Heather. Someone wrote somewhere something like ' if the United States saw what the United States was doing to the United States the United States would step in and save the United States from the United States.' It is as though we are hanging on by a feather. These extremists must be muzzled and put back into their caves and under rocks. Every single one of those who have broken their oath of office and participated in the overthrow of our government must be held accountable. We all must speak up and speak out everywhere possible. On their twitter pages. On their Instagrams. On their FB pages. Including those of the NYT that seems to delight in posting Biden's numbers and having misleading lead ins on its social media. We also have to demand that something like The Fairness Doctrine be put back into our federal government to hold all the liars accountable.
About the 10 year old girl... the PBS NewsHour reported that the girl was actually 9 years old when she was raped. The callous attitudes of Bopp and others of his ilk are totally reprehensible.
I am convinced that we are living in a nightmarish version of Alice’s Wonderland. We are now well beyond the looking glass. In a corollary to ‘the hurrier I go, the behinder I get’ it appears that with each new revelation, the news gets worse than we could have imagined. The USSS deletes text messages from January 5 & 6, Ivana Trump is found dead at the bottom of a staircase on the eve of her children’s scheduled testimony in New York, the plight of a 10-year old rape victim — I wake up daily with the misplaced hope that the nightmare will end only to learn that it is worse than I had imagined.
I’ve always been troubled by the trump-era appointees in the last year of his presidency-so many that shifted to departments like dhs and military-oriented departments. It would seem secret service and all the rest were in on this-and response on Jan 6 was not quicker because of their refusal to act. That Pence didn’t trust them is HUGE and once again, yes, I’m grateful he didn’t go along with their plan, but he hasn’t told the truth he knew either. He’s no hero-he’s playing both sides to see how he can capitalize on the side that wins. It’s so sick and sad that so many people were compromised and allowed this coup attempt to become a reality-all for greed and power.
The NSA has long monitored (or at least, attempted to monitor) every (and I mean every) electronic transmission made by every form of communication in the world. It would not surprise me if those missing texts were recorded somewhere in the bowels of the massive computer storage systems that are maintained for that surveillance. But to produce those texts would mean exposing that surveillance. The NSA is between a rock and a hard place. And we will likely never see the texts, now conveniently deleted by the Secret Service, in direct defiance of the request from the IG. Criminal charges should follow some well-publicized firings.
Now the radical right are saying woman can not cross state lines for health care. Okay so
Then men can not cross state lines. In fact the congress should not be able to get healthcare in DC as they should be required to go back to their hometown to get the surgery. Maybe their hometown does not have the resources to do the surgery. Oh well welcome men to what you are dictating to woman.
"Texas attorney general Ken Paxton, who was indicted seven years ago for felony securities fraud but has yet to stand trial, sued the Biden administration over that rule, claiming that it is an 'attempt to use federal law to transform every emergency room in this country into a walk-in abortion clinic.'”
Excuse me, but how has this guy been under indictment for 7 years but hasn't gone to trial yet? And he's a sitting AG, yet.
Some anti abortion politicians are now dishonestly claiming that the absolute language in their laws somehow does not apply to ectopic pregnancy or raped children.
As disgusting as that is, their most fundamental belief is far more disturbing. If abortion is murder, then logically their laws must eventually treat women who seek abortion as murderers.
No, “pro life” campaigners, abortion is not murder and your obsession about it is intolerable religious zealotry.
Having to go through a rape at 9 and an abortion at 10, is not something I can even imagine. Having to travel to a strange place to get care is also unimaginable. Ending up in the center of a media storm on top of that, well, it's too awful to contemplate. Caring for such a young patient in such circumstances is difficult all by itself. I have deep respect for the physician who cared for the child and for the parent/guardian of the child who sought care for her, and agreed to allow the doctor to speak out.
On another topic, who tipped off Pence not to trust his SS driver? Who reassigned then President-Elect Biden's SS team? More dots to connect. Yes, I meant to use "SS", and am aware of its WWII meaning :)
What are the odds that today either Gym Jordan or Matt Gaetz will demand to know if Hunter Biden’s laptop was known to be in the vicinity of Ivana Trump’s body?
Thank you Heather. Someone wrote somewhere something like ' if the United States saw what the United States was doing to the United States the United States would step in and save the United States from the United States.' It is as though we are hanging on by a feather. These extremists must be muzzled and put back into their caves and under rocks. Every single one of those who have broken their oath of office and participated in the overthrow of our government must be held accountable. We all must speak up and speak out everywhere possible. On their twitter pages. On their Instagrams. On their FB pages. Including those of the NYT that seems to delight in posting Biden's numbers and having misleading lead ins on its social media. We also have to demand that something like The Fairness Doctrine be put back into our federal government to hold all the liars accountable.
About the 10 year old girl... the PBS NewsHour reported that the girl was actually 9 years old when she was raped. The callous attitudes of Bopp and others of his ilk are totally reprehensible.
I am convinced that we are living in a nightmarish version of Alice’s Wonderland. We are now well beyond the looking glass. In a corollary to ‘the hurrier I go, the behinder I get’ it appears that with each new revelation, the news gets worse than we could have imagined. The USSS deletes text messages from January 5 & 6, Ivana Trump is found dead at the bottom of a staircase on the eve of her children’s scheduled testimony in New York, the plight of a 10-year old rape victim — I wake up daily with the misplaced hope that the nightmare will end only to learn that it is worse than I had imagined.
Announce the death of your children's mother, and in the same breath ask for money for yourself...
I’ve always been troubled by the trump-era appointees in the last year of his presidency-so many that shifted to departments like dhs and military-oriented departments. It would seem secret service and all the rest were in on this-and response on Jan 6 was not quicker because of their refusal to act. That Pence didn’t trust them is HUGE and once again, yes, I’m grateful he didn’t go along with their plan, but he hasn’t told the truth he knew either. He’s no hero-he’s playing both sides to see how he can capitalize on the side that wins. It’s so sick and sad that so many people were compromised and allowed this coup attempt to become a reality-all for greed and power.
The NSA has long monitored (or at least, attempted to monitor) every (and I mean every) electronic transmission made by every form of communication in the world. It would not surprise me if those missing texts were recorded somewhere in the bowels of the massive computer storage systems that are maintained for that surveillance. But to produce those texts would mean exposing that surveillance. The NSA is between a rock and a hard place. And we will likely never see the texts, now conveniently deleted by the Secret Service, in direct defiance of the request from the IG. Criminal charges should follow some well-publicized firings.
When will the Republican Party be designated as a domestic terrorist organization? Methinks it's long overdue.
Now the radical right are saying woman can not cross state lines for health care. Okay so
Then men can not cross state lines. In fact the congress should not be able to get healthcare in DC as they should be required to go back to their hometown to get the surgery. Maybe their hometown does not have the resources to do the surgery. Oh well welcome men to what you are dictating to woman.
Getting to the point I can type this in my sleep:
"The only 'Good Republicans' are pushing up daisies." - Harry Truman, 1948
Followed by a further ditty thinking about the rest of it:
"If my thought dreams could be seen/They'd probably put my head in a guillotine" - Bob Dylan
"Texas attorney general Ken Paxton, who was indicted seven years ago for felony securities fraud but has yet to stand trial, sued the Biden administration over that rule, claiming that it is an 'attempt to use federal law to transform every emergency room in this country into a walk-in abortion clinic.'”
Excuse me, but how has this guy been under indictment for 7 years but hasn't gone to trial yet? And he's a sitting AG, yet.
That situation stinks like week-old fish.
Found Ivana at the bottom of a stairwell ???? really ?
I hope they are keeping a sauna ready in the hottest corner of Hell for the right wing media.
Some anti abortion politicians are now dishonestly claiming that the absolute language in their laws somehow does not apply to ectopic pregnancy or raped children.
As disgusting as that is, their most fundamental belief is far more disturbing. If abortion is murder, then logically their laws must eventually treat women who seek abortion as murderers.
No, “pro life” campaigners, abortion is not murder and your obsession about it is intolerable religious zealotry.
Having to go through a rape at 9 and an abortion at 10, is not something I can even imagine. Having to travel to a strange place to get care is also unimaginable. Ending up in the center of a media storm on top of that, well, it's too awful to contemplate. Caring for such a young patient in such circumstances is difficult all by itself. I have deep respect for the physician who cared for the child and for the parent/guardian of the child who sought care for her, and agreed to allow the doctor to speak out.
On another topic, who tipped off Pence not to trust his SS driver? Who reassigned then President-Elect Biden's SS team? More dots to connect. Yes, I meant to use "SS", and am aware of its WWII meaning :)
What are the odds that today either Gym Jordan or Matt Gaetz will demand to know if Hunter Biden’s laptop was known to be in the vicinity of Ivana Trump’s body?
Thank you Heather .
Just a simple question. Is there any part of this Government that isn't dirty?
Be safe. Be well.