READ: 'He's up to something': South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh's wife texted friend the night she was killed: report And that's not something the Secret Service routinely required of its personnel."Ĭarol Leonnig says Secret Service doesn't cooperate well with investigators Roman was subpoenaed in February by the House Select Committee Investigating the Jan.
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In this case, though, the basic problem is, they may not have intentionally deleted anything, but they didn't take the right steps, the correct steps to preserve basic government documents, which all federal employees are trained and how to do.
So, they're not in a good position to say, no, no, no, no, we would never do that.
They have tried to block investigators - a criminal investigator, special counsel, from investigating what they knew about Bill Clinton's extramarital activities with an intern. "The problem is, they don't have a great track record in complying or participating in their oversight investigations. "The Secret Service, I think, has a pretty decent fact-based way to say, we didn't in this case, intentionally delete information that an investigator was seeking," said Loennig. 6Īccording to Leonnig, this may not necessarily indicate a crime has occurred - but it is part of a worrying pattern of how the Secret Service operates. RELATED: Pence aide: 'Chilling' Secret Service chaos made VP fear for his life on Jan. Kennedy - critical documents were essentially destroyed, weeks or days after investigators sought them."
That's a long time going back now, in the 1980s, a congressional investigative team was trying to understand how much the Secret Service had been warned ahead of time about assassination attempts, including the attempt that took the life of John F. They have been accused, in the past, of destroying records, of obstructing a congressional investigation. "They are generally loathe to turn up records. Because 4000 percent, the answer is no," said Loennig. "Is that surprising to you, given the extensive reporting on the agency which is how, generally, are they a forthcoming agency with a type of information, given the access that they have to the Oval Office and the president?" "You are just about to, I guess, comment on it because the inspector general has made it pretty clear that he feels the Secret Service isn't being very cooperative," said anchor Ayman Mohyeldin. When you either don’t do the work or don’t have the heart."
His feeble, unfunny attacks on queer and trans people this week are exactly what happens when your 'liberal' sensibilities never venture beyond your own smug privilege. But for Bill Maher to frame trans children as 'trendy' while states are banning trans healthcare? It’s just transphobia."įormer Buzzfeed LGBT news editor Patrick Strudwick responded, "Bill Maher always set my inner warning bells off. Had conversation with friend yesterday who found phrase 'birthing people' dehumanizing. House candidate Briana Wu put it, "Reasonable people can have concerns on trans issues. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) applauding his comments - but the bulk of comments slammed the comedian for making trans kids the butt of a joke.Īs former U.S. Response to the HBO hosts' comments were quick - including controversial Rep. He then glibly joked, "If this spike in trans children is all biological, why is it regional? Either Ohio is shaming them or California is creating them," before making a few more crude comments. HBO "Real Time" host Bill Maher was buried under an avalanche of criticism on Saturday after using his Friday night closing comments to ridicule trans kids and their need for gender-affirming care, saying they are only doing it because it's more "trendy" than being gay.Īfter suggesting the "LGBT population of America seems to be roughly doubling every generation," Maher added, " According to a recent Gallup poll, less than 1% of Americans born before 1946, that's Joe Biden's generation, identify that way, 2.6% of Boomers do, 4.2% of Gen X, 10.5% of Millennials and 20.8% of Gen Z, which means if we follow this trajectory, we will all be gay in 2054."