Department of Homeland Security OIG Confirms Mayorkas DHS Stonewalled Its J6 Investigation

The plot thickens: Now, the Department of Homeland Security's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) reports that the Mayorkas DHS has blocked access to important information in the ongoing J6 investigation. On Friday, RealClearInvestigation's Julie Kelley released portions of that report on X:

NEW: DHS IG confirms in report that the Biden/Mayorkas DHS significantly stonewalled his J6 investigation. Texts deleted, cell phones of top officials presumably including Kim Cheatle were wiped.
Data never recovered

The report lists what appears to be efforts to conceal or actually destroy evidence:

NEW: DHS IG confirms in report that the Biden/Mayorkas DHS significantly stonewalled his J6 investigation.

Texts deleted, cell phones of top officials presumably including Kim Cheatle were wiped.

Data never recovered pic.twitter.com/AzCaiTRgeg
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) August 2, 2024

The apparently leaked report is revealing; the OIG's report describes what seems to be slow-walking of the provision of requested documentation by the Secret Service, along with a "planned Secret Service-wide cell phone migration," which mysteriously wiped all the Service's phones when updating software, with no backups in place - which seems odd, to say the least, for a federal law enforcement agency.

The report states in part:

Throughout our inspection, Secret Service personnel indicated they would not provide documents directly to OIG without the documents first going through an internal review. Secret Service did not provide the authority supporting the additional level of internal review. This practice also left unclear whether OIG ultimately received a complete and accurate response.

This seems, indeed, to be designed to guarantee that the OIG did not receive a complete and accurate response.

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During the initial J6 investigation, Representative Bennie Thompson (D-MS) chaired the committee conducting the J6 investigation. That committee took no action on the slow-walking and destruction of evidence, Kelly wrote on X:

Under questioning by @RepThomasMassie, Bennie Thompson, chair of J6 committee who pretended his mission was to investigate Jan 6, reluctantly admitted the texts were deleted and it represented a violation of Federal Records Act.

He did nothing about it pic.twitter.com/GerY1sGdqU
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) August 2, 2024

And, as noted above, this sure looks like obstruction of an official proceeding, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) suggested:

Rep. Massie suggests the deletions--made between Feb and April 2021 under Sec Mayorkas--represented criminal obstruction of Congress since Democrats had sent preservation notices to all agencies prior to the alleged "device migration" process.

Thompson again seems unconcerned pic.twitter.com/mum2187mJj
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) August 2, 2024

This, folks, is the Swamp in action.

Note the statement in the final X post in that thread: "Thompson again seems unconcerned." He has good reason; nothing generally is done about these kinds of interference. Bureaucrats - swamp dwellers - interfere with proceedings, refuse to produce subpoenaed evidence, destroy data, wipe cell phones, and suffer no consequences for it. No matter who is doing the obstructing or who is doing the investigating, no one suffers any consequences for any of this - and it's a safe bet no one from the Secret Service will suffer any consequences from this obstruction, either.

It literally took a former President of the United States getting shot in the ear to get a bureaucrat, in this case, the Secret Service director, to resign from her job - and as of this writing, no one else has faced any consequences from that event, either--yet. Until these people start facing consequences, this kind of evasion and obstruction will only continue.