The FBI recently informed Congress that they’ve been unable to locate several months worth of texts from cell phones belonging to a couple of agents who expressed anti-Trump views in 2016. Now the number of affected phones has risen dramatically according to a new report:
NEW: DOJ confirms "thousands" of FBI-issued phones failed to store text message data over *at least* a one year period (June 2016-May 2017).
— Paula Reid (@PaulaReidCBS) January 24, 2018
“Thousands”? The FBI story is starting to mirror that of the former presidential candidate the bureau had been investigating.
*** EXCLUSIVE – THOUSANDS OF FBI CELLPHONES WERE AFFECTED BY “TECHNICAL GLITCH” ***
Federal Law Enforcement Officials tell Fox News, “a few thousand FBI employees’ cell phones” were affected by the technical glitch which lost some of the text messages of Strzok and Page.— Jake Gibson (@JakeBGibson) January 24, 2018
NEW: FBI glitch affecting Strzok/Page texts also affected messages sent from thousands of other FBI-issued phones, @PaulaReidCBS reports.
— Steven Portnoy (@stevenportnoy) January 24, 2018
The "glitch" has an impact. Could mean important messages touching on other sensitive cases and important FBI matters is similarly unavailable. https://t.co/mJ4QSw44XS
— Steven Portnoy (@stevenportnoy) January 24, 2018
Sheesh.
Seems like Hillary Clinton's private server was more reliable at retention than the FBI's. Just sayin'.
— John Panzer (@jpanzer) January 24, 2018
There’s a whole lotta irony in all this.
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