No wonder the Secret Service Director just “retired”
The Secret Service deleted text messages shortly after the January 6th Committee requested them, per CNN. They’re claiming coincidence, but this is textbook obstruction of justice. The January 6th Committee is going to be all over this – and criminal referrals for destroying evidence are a good way to get the DOJ to go after someone.
Only question is whether those caught doing this will cut a deal and cooperate, or risk being indicted for obstruction and go to prison.
It’s also now seemingly clear why the Secret Service Director abruptly announced his retirement last week. This is the kind of scandal that will rock the agency from top to bottom until the real truth ends up emerging. Even if the Director wasn’t involved in the destruction of January 6th evidence, who would want to stick around for this kind of ground shifting scandal?
This raises the question of whether the texts can be recovered. Depending on the way the phones were set up in relation to the carrier, the answer is maybe. But the point here is that once someone gets caught committing obstruction, they know they’re on the hook for prison, so they often decide to just become a fully cooperating witness – which can be more valuable than the evidence that was destroyed.
