How many thousands?

According to FBI officials, Fox reports that that the glitch

affected the phones of �nearly� 10 percent of the FBI�s 35,000 employees.

Which means that it's not just Strzok and Page whose text messages from the most
critical period of Trump's administration and the Russian probe were lost: the same
happened to another 3,498 FBI employees. Which, in more practical terms, means that
once the just announced DOJ probe into missing text message expands, miraculously
some 3,500 FBI agents will be found to have had an anti-Trump bias but - thanks
Samsung - none of their text messages will be accessible either, so there.

And this time the FBI won't even have to "wipe its server with a cloth" or use a
hammer to pulverize some 3,500 cell phones: it will have a perfectly handy alibi.

To which anyone who is not an idiot would retort: "hold on, doesn't every cell
phone carrier have a copy of every text message sent, not to mention the NSA." The
answer, of course, is yes, but apparently neither the FBI nor Congress has figured
it out just yet.

Or maybe they have: Fox writes that "Senior Department of Justice officials told
Fox News they are "taking steps" to possibly recover the texts from the appropriate
cellphone carriers. The same officials told Fox News they are also making every
effort to track down the physical cellphones in question so they could be subject
to a forensic review."

Although considering that even the NSA admitted last week that it had
"accidentally" deleted millions of emails that it was ordered to preserve, somehow
we have a feeling that the same scenario will make a miraculous repeat appearance.

Meanwhile, in an attempt to the bottom of the ongoing mystery, Senate Homeland

Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Senate Judiciary Committee
Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, sent a letter to Inspector General Michael
Horowitz noting that the IG's office said on December 13 that it had all the
messages between Strzok and Page between Nov. 30, 2016 and July 28, 2017, something
we first reported on Monday.

Only over a month later did lawmakers learn that there was actually a five-month
gap, and t
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