So, the Secret Service wiped its phones on January 5-6 and don’t have backups. And the Department of Homeland Security wiped its phones on January 5-6 and don’t have backups. And the Defense Secretary, the Chief of Staff of the Defense Secretary, the Secretary of the Army and other members of the Pentagon had their phones wiped on January 5-6 and don’t have backups. Man, that’s some national security. There’s a saying in politics that “In politics there are no coincidences.” In fairness, though, this isn’t a case it not being coincidence – it’s more like a completed game of Connect the Dots. This is like one of those optical illusion things where they ask if you can spot the three puppies in a picture – and everything has been stripped out of the picture except the three puppies. I’m an “On the other hand” kind of guy. I think there are coincidences in life and politics, and like to give a benefit of the doubt until shown otherwise. Yes, sometimes it doesn’t take very long for me to feel I’ve been shown “otherwise.” But here, it didn’t even take me to learn about DHS and the Pentagon wiping their phones on January 5-6 and not having backups. Just learning that the Secret Service had done so was enough. After all, wiping your phone and not having a backup is kind of thing they write “Backing Up Your Phone for Dummies” for. You’ll note, by the way, that they do not have a version called, “Backing Up All the Phones of Your Organization for Dummies.” Because people who run the IT Departments of an organization are not dummies. And this was the Secret Service. On the days of the Insurrection coup attempt to overthrow democracy. And the phones were wiped. And not backed up. That’s not an accident. That’s not a coincidence that the supposed “switchover” was done those very days. Even I didn’t give a moment’s credence to the “explanation.” And that was without knowing about the Department of Homeland Security. And then the top members of the Pentagon. Coincidence?? Accident??? The Secret Service, DHS and Pentagon???? Three of the top national security agencies. All erasing their phones. All having no backup. All on January 5-6. The days of an insurrection coup attempt to overthrow the government and democracy. Suggesting it was just an accident and merely coincidence doesn’t make you insulting -- it makes you a conspirator. Believing it was an accident and coincidence doesn’t make you gullible – it makes you willfully ignorant. It means you aren’t trying. It means you want to believe the lie. If I didn’t believe that Rosemary Woods accidentally erased the Nixon tape by holding down the wrong combination of buttons with her hand and foot in a contortionist position for 17 minutes, I wasn’t even going to consider believing this. We’re told that nothing is lost in the Internet. I don’t know if all this material is lost or if it all – or even some of it – can be recovered. Certainly, if anyone can wipe the material clean, it’s the Secret Service, DHS and Pentagon. But just as certainly, if anyone can recover data it’s the FBI and all the rest of the U.S. government. And any hackers they decide to hire. And at the very least, there will be a lot of people who get called before the Select Committee and, more importantly, the Justice Department. And conspiracies that wide are really hard to keep quiet. And even if no data can be recovered, it’s the equivalent of a little kid denying he broke the cookie jar and having crumbs all over his face. You can’t show the details, but the evidence of the crime is staring you in the face.
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