[contentcards url=”https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/the-secret-service-has-some-explaining-to-do/” target=”_blank”]
By JIM GERAGHTY
On the menu today: The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General accuses the U.S. Secret Service of erasing text messages from January 5 and January 6, 2021 — after the inspector general requested those records. The Secret Service counters that the messages were deleted as part of a routine, long-planned changeover to a new phone system. Someone’s not telling the truth — and it appears to be another example of the increasingly pervasive, corrosive trend of people prioritizing their personal, short-term desires and needs over the duties of the institutions they supposedly serve…
