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DHS: Critical ICE surveillance footage from abuse case was never recorded
- jandrese 9mo agoRunning the administration's statement through my bullshit filter says they deleted the footage because it was too incriminating. I am also skeptical about the statement that it's irrelevant because they fixed the problem.
- cucumber3732842 9mo agoNah. Nobody who's career goes anywhere in government is that dumb. I'd bet a lot of money that once things got "bad for my job" level bad people turned off the recording without having to be told. This is SOP slimy government behavior. Everything from your local permitting office to the CIA. So they're probably right, the footage never existed, but the reason is even more damning.
- jandrese 9mo agoCounterpoint: Have you seen this administration? You don't think Kristi Noem would tell a baldfaced lie if it served her interests? I mean we only have several examples of her doing exactly that. This is the government you get when you hire based on loyalty instead of competence.
- belter 9mo agoClearly the same team that was doing tech support for the Epstein cameras.
- goatlover 9mo agoForget which Youtube channel it is, but there was a video recently detailing how one of the cameras that was supposedly not working the day of Epstein's death, had footage from the next day even though it was supposedly not fixed along with the other cameras until a few days later. I believe this footage was part of a recent Epstein files dump, when they DOJ was still doing dumps. It was from a different angle that gave a much better view of downstairs cell block including the stairs going up to his cell.
- actionfromafar 9mo agoMaybe we can soon get an "unedited, raw" video with a mouse pointer on it!
- Brian_K_White 9mo agoIn the quaint olden days there used to be a concept that the appearance of impropriety was as bad or worse than actual impropriety for exactly this reason.
- JKCalhoun 9mo agoI'm reading it was from a "system crash", or maybe it never existed, and that even if it existed it would be of no use. Okay.
- the_snooze 9mo agoThe purpose of a system is what it does.
- cyberge99 9mo agoHow much will that cost taxpayers when a judgment is entered for punitive damages?
- actionfromafar 9mo agoWhatever it is, Much less than any Trump and friends grift.
- brrwind 9mo agoWhy was this flagged?
- RobertDeNiro 9mo agoThere are pro-Trump bots that automatically try to get things removed if they paint the administration in any negative light.
- ronsor 9mo agoThe real reason: > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, [...]. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. From the guidelines linked at the bottom of the page.
- ranger_danger 9mo agoThere many, many politics stories posted here that never get taken down.
- BoredPositron 9mo ago404 is auto flagged.
- slater 9mo agoIt's not.
- viraptor 9mo agoDang's response a while ago when I reported a dead 404media link: > The site 404media.co is banned on HN because it has been the source of too many low-quality posts and because many (most?) of their articles are behind a signup wall. So that's why that one was killed. I've unkilled it now. (I'd extremely disagree with the low-quality part)
- BoredPositron 9mo agoYou are right it's auto dead and needs vouches which in return reduces the flag threshold.
- Pwntastic 9mo agohttps://archive.ph/eSpJw https://archive.ph/eSpJw
- 1attice 9mo agoWhy is this flagged? When did Internet censorship become a non-tech story?