More email scrubbings?

Since we last talked two weeks ago, we were astounded that the once sacrosanct Secret Service had deleted agency emails during a scheduled cellphone migration. That was bad enough and perhaps in violation of the Federal Records Act to remove or mutilate government records, but then we found out that the purged messages covered the period of the disgusting January 6 insurrection attempt at The Capitol.

Shortly after that revelation, we learn that the Department of Homeland Security, charged with investigating the scrubbing of Secret Service texts, sat on this information for five months and actually attempted to thwart its own agents from recovering the missing Jan. 6 data.

Whaa???

Now this week we learn that several officials in the Pentagon – including former acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller, former Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, and former Pentagon chief of staff Kash Patel – had their government cell phones scrubbed as they left office despite being advised not to because of pending investigations.

You've got to be kidding. The Pentagon? Don't you think there's some good info floating around inside that peculiar five-sided building as to why the National Guard was delayed in responding to the Jan. 6 siege of The Capitol?

And Friday we learned that the FBI received more than 4,500 tips regarding allegations of sexual misconduct and assault toward Christine Blasey Ford by then conservative Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. According to FBI Director Christopher Wray, the pathetically short week-long investigation of Kavanaugh was actually directed by former President Donald Trump, which suggests the entire investigation was a sham that was rigged by the most thoroughly corrupt president in American history. Surprise, surprise. "I like beer" Kavanaugh was subsequently voted to the bench by a partisan Senate and now we're dealing with the earth-rattling reversal of Row v. Wade after 50 years of Constitutional protection for abortion rights. 

Sweet Jesus, where is this country headed? 

But back to emails and texts. The first thing that came to mind was Hillary Clinton and her 30,000 deleted emails. After the latest news of scrubbing dripped out of the Pentagon, I had to laugh. I mean, the poison of corruption and lies seeping from the former Trump administration into one government agency after another is apparently wide-ranging as it is infuriating. There's a new scrubbing revelation every week, it seems.

I found this tweet the other day that says it all:

'"I can't vote for that lady (Clinton) because she once used a private email server" to literally everyone in this (Trump) administration has illegally deleted their official texts in four short years.'

Interestingly enough, we may soon get the incriminating evidence we need from Infowars mogul and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, a detestable human being who has claimed that the massacre of school children at Sandy Hook was a hoax perpetrated by crisis actors. It was revealed in Jones's trial this past week that his lawyers "accidentally" sent texts and emails to the attorneys representing the Sandy Hook plaintiffs who were suing Jones. This is significant because Jones was a key figure in the Jan. 6 insurrection riots at the Capitol.

Those texts will be sent to the Jan. 6 Committee investigating the riots.

This "leak" would be comical if it wasn't so serious.

So this is where we are. Stay tuned.