Lawrence O'Donnell: James Murray Is The Problem At The Secret Service - The Last Word - MSNBC

[Rhiannon12866]

NBC News is reporting that members of the Secret Service were told at least three times to preserve text messages and communications on their agency phones. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell breaks down the new developments and explains how the problems at the Secret Service may go all the way to the top. Aired on 07/20/2022.

[walkingman]

1. Biden should have immediately replaced all of the people that Trump put in place.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. I absolutely agree.

However, though Joe Biden may be our most experienced POTUS ever - 30+ years in the Senate and 8 years in the Executive Branch - there can be no president in our history who was faced with such a massive cleanup job.

[SheltieLover]

9. Absolutely!

[cloudboy07]

3. clean up is a mandatory after every damn republican president!

[SunSeeker]

4. Everyone should see this video. The erasure of SS texts was not an accident.

Here's an article with the same info, but not stated as well as Lawrence does:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/secret-service-was-told-least-jan-6-2021-preserve-texts-rcna39129

[Rhiannon12866]

5. Thanks! There was absolutely no excuse. And I agree that Lawrence stated this extremely well.

How can there have been any "confusion??" From the article:

A senior Secret Service official said agency employees received two emails — at least one prior to Jan. 6, 2021 — reminding them to preserve records on their cellphones, including text messages, before their devices were essentially “restored to factory settings” and texts were lost as part of a planned reset and replacement program across the agency.

The senior official said employees received a third email on Feb. 4, 2021, instructing them to preserve all communications specific to Jan. 6. At that point, several Congressional committees had asked for Secret Service communications from the day of the insurrection on the Capitol.

Last week the special House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot issued a subpoena for text messages by the Secret Service on Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, 2021. A source familiar with the matter told NBC News on Tuesday that the Secret Service does not have any additional text messages to hand over.

The first email about preserving records came on Dec. 9, 2020 from the Secret Service’s Office of Strategic Planning and the second was in January 2021 from the agency’s chief information officer, though the source didn't provide an exact date. Both emails included reminders that federal employees have the responsibility to preserve their records and included instructions on how to do so, the senior Secret Service official said.

[SunSeeker]

6. Yup, these agents deliberately refused to back up their texts, knowing they would be erased.

There is just no other plausible explanation.

Maybe one or two agents might not have backed up their texts because they were on vacation for 2 months, or in a coma for 2 months....but ALL of the agents not backing up? Nope, that absolutely had to be intentional, and coordinated, from the top of the organization, namely James Murray.

[Rhiannon12866]

7. Yup, Lawrence is right - no big surprise. Well said.

[SheltieLover]

8. I think he just resigned, didn't he?

Belongs in a steel cage with the rest of them.

[Rhiannon12866]

10. He announced his "retirement," he's taking a job at "Snapchat"

Whatever that is...

[SheltieLover]

12. Why is he not sitting in jail while this gets sorted out?

[Rhiannon12866]

14. We haven't seen anyone get charged with anything yet - well, except for Bannon

[SheltieLover]

15. Right...

[Lasher]

11. He is retiring on July 30th.

Not that it means anything except we will be rid of him.

[SheltieLover]

13. They are going to let him retire?

Another Gen. Flynn type, traitors getting govt. pension. Terminate him!

[magicguido]

16. Can't wait unti this Criminal Associate of trump is grilled before the Committee. Then it's Jail

[Rhiannon12866]

17. They all belong there if they helped orchestrate his Coup!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

18. Secret Service were told at least 3 times to preserve text messages and communications

Link to tweet

[Rhiannon12866]

19. "This is the worst crisis facing the Secret Service since the assassination of President Kennedy

And the director of the Secret Service has said not one word about it, not one word..."