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Jane in NC's avatar

As it happens, I'm currently reading Carol Leonnig's excellent book on the secret service, 'Zero Fail.' Anyone who's surprised by the USSS's behavior relative to 1/6 hasn't been paying attention. The secret service has had a culture of cover-up for decades. Top leadership lied to congress about the sex scandal in Cartagena during the Obama administration, they bungled the discovery of an assassination attempt against Obama and then lied about it, etc., etc. They had a history of agents on the president's protective detail becoming too chummy with their principals, which had led to problems with subsequent administrations.

And now the secret service looks like a bunch of Trump loyalists trying to hide damaging evidence against Trump over what happened on 1/6. I recall early in the Biden administration, the president replacing a large number of his detail agents over concerns about their on-going loyalty to Trump. Just last April, agents on the First Lady's detail were caught taking bribes and suspended.

The 1/6 Committee should immediately subpoena every agent on Trump's and his families' protective details, including their work and personal phones. The leadership of the secret service should also be subpoenaed, and DOJ should launch a criminal investigation. Federal records retention isn't negotiable. The law requires it. And the USSS had been served notice by 1/6 Committee to produce the very records they 'accidentally' deleted.

This stinks like 3 day old fish left in the hot summer sun.

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DJ's avatar

That call to Robin Vos makes me think Trump is laying the groundwork for an insanity defense.

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