OK. So this story is going around. "DOJ failed to preserve texts between Strzok and Page for five months until Mueller arrived". Sounds very suspicious. Probably isn't. Let me walk you thru.http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/21/fbi-failed-preserve-anti-trump-texts/ …
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Basically you can't understand what's going on if you don't know the backstory to how the Strzok texts became public. And the answer there is an OIG investigation into the handling of the *Clinton* investigation.pic.twitter.com/eSjtpnYrIx
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Note how this happens. After the election, DOJ's Inspector General conducts a review into how the Clinton investigation was handled, and demands (as a matter of routine) all the messages from various people involved. This includes Strzok, and is all the messages up til then (Nov)
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This took ages to fulfill. That's a legit problem. But the IG gets them in July 2017. Only on reviewing *those* text messages (around July 20) does the IG discover some of the messages are political.pic.twitter.com/qLEVyRnoLD
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The IG then does two things: First, they go tell DAG Rosenstein and Mueller to tell them about all the texts they found. This happens on July 27. For reference, Strzok left the Mueller investigation on July 28.pic.twitter.com/wNwiaunL5O
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And second, they go and demand all the text messages between Strzok and Page from November onwards. Turns out since November DOJ had changed their internal IT systems and the text messages hadn't been preserved.
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But DOJ had no obligation to preserve them. They had been told to hand over texts up til Nov 30. Which they had done. Maybe DOJ should have backed up all the texts. But they weren't obliged to, and for whatever reason they didn't.
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Now that you've explained that, can you explain how NSA came to delete content they WERE obliged to retain? :)
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