Eric Adams Staffer Left FBI Interview to Delete Encrypted Chat Apps
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Re: Eric Adams Staffer Left FBI Interview to Delete Encrypted Chat Apps
#2The most striking thing about all this is just how bad everyone on Adams staff and himself were at it. When I worked for a local government I was told all my communications could get FOIAd so to be careful about what I did and I wasn't even working on anything sensitive or illegal.
Re: Eric Adams Staffer Left FBI Interview to Delete Encrypted Chat Apps
#3And Adams himself:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/09/26/eric...
> On November 5, Adams surrendered that mobile phone – but there was a hitch.
> “When Adams produced his personal cellphone the next day in response to a subpoena, it was 'locked,' such that the device required a password to open,” the indictment said. “Adams claimed that after he learned about the investigation into his conduct, he changed the password" that same day "and increased the complexity of his password from four digits to six.”
> The mayor said he’d changed the password to prevent members of his staff from accidentally deleting anything.
> “But, Adams further claimed, he had forgotten the password he had just set, and thus was unable to provide the FBI with a password that would unlock the phone,” the indictment says.
Re: Eric Adams Staffer Left FBI Interview to Delete Encrypted Chat Apps
#4The most striking thing about all this is just how bad everyone on Adams staff and himself were at it. When I worked for a local government I was told all my communications could get FOIAd so to be careful about what I did and I wasn't even working on anything sensitive or illegal.
A lot of them are former cops, used to having a police union in the way of themselves and any accountability for bad actions.
Re: Eric Adams Staffer Left FBI Interview to Delete Encrypted Chat Apps
#5The most striking thing about all this is just how bad everyone on Adams staff and himself were at it. When I worked for a local government I was told all my communications could get FOIAd so to be careful about what I did and I wasn't even working on anything sensitive or illegal.
A lot of them are former cops, used to having a police union in the way of themselves and any accountability for bad actions.
Yeah but that also means presumably they have dealt with criminals before, and as Stronger Bell famously said in the wire "Is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?"
Re: Eric Adams Staffer Left FBI Interview to Delete Encrypted Chat Apps
#6> This is all to say, if you find yourself in a situation where you need an impromptu bathroom break in the middle of an interrogation to delete messages, you’re already in deep shit.
Hilarious.
Re: Eric Adams Staffer Left FBI Interview to Delete Encrypted Chat Apps
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
A lot of them are former cops, used to having a police union in the way of themselves and any accountability for bad actions.
Yeah but that also means presumably they have dealt with criminals before, and as Stronger Bell famously said in the wire "Is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?"
Being immune to consequences breeds complacency.
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Re: Eric Adams Staffer Left FBI Interview to Delete Encrypted Chat Apps
#9There is nothing wrong with deleting a chat. It is foolish to incriminate oneself by keeping unnecessary chats. Whether they should have been using a chat or not for government business is another matter.
Re: Eric Adams Staffer Left FBI Interview to Delete Encrypted Chat Apps
#10The most striking thing about all this is just how bad everyone on Adams staff and himself were at it. When I worked for a local government I was told all my communications could get FOIAd so to be careful about what I did and I wasn't even working on anything sensitive or illegal.
NYC mayor’s office has been slow rolling several of my FOIA requests, and with this event, I am suddenly not surprised why.