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-Lurid Crime Tales-
UPDATE: ‘Stolen' Secret Service Laptop Was Left On A Motorcycle Outside Agent's Home
2017-03-22
Moved To Lurid Crime Tales, Page 6: Seedy Politics. This is not a War on Terror story.

-- trailing wife at 1:10 p.m. EDT
[GatewayPundit] It was reported earlier this week that a Secret Service Agent’s laptop was reported stolen from a vehicle.

The laptop contained floor plans to Trump Tower, evacuation protocols and information regarding the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server.

Via Daily News:

Authorities have been frantically searching for the laptop since it was stolen Thursday morning.

Some items stolen along with the laptop -- including coins and a black bag with the Secret Service insignia on it -- were later recovered.

But the laptop, along with other documents described as "sensitive," were still being sought.

The thief stepped out of a car, possibly an Uber, on a street in Bath Beach and stole the laptop from the agent’s vehicle, which was parked in the driveway of her home.

He was then seen on video walking away from the scene with a backpack.

The agent reported the laptop contained floor plans for Trump Tower, evacuation protocols and information regarding the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server.

Now the New York Post reported that the stolen laptop was on a Bajaj motorcycle:

A Secret Service laptop containing sensitive information about Trump Tower, details about the Hillary Clinton e-mail probe and other national security secrets was swiped from an agent’s motorcycle in Brooklyn, police sources said Friday.

The computer was taken Thursday morning from the driveway of agent Marie Argentieri’s Bath Beach home, the sources said.

The thief drove up to Argentieri’s home around 8:40 a.m., walked right up to her Bajaj motorcycle and took the items. He was then caught on video fleeing the scene on foot, sources said.

The fact that the laptop was stored on a motorcycle is disturbing.

Was it stolen or left for someone to pick up?
Posted by:Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

#15  Bring her in. Sweat her till she sings.
Posted by: Iblis   2017-03-22 23:10  

#14  If she's living in NYC, chances are she's not on PPD. Anywho...this thing stinks. I've heard of feds doing really stupid stuff but this one is in the top 5. The US Silly Circus has been on the skyline for years and this one doesn't help.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy   2017-03-22 22:29  

#13  Do Secret Service agents normally tool around on dinky little motorbikes?
Posted by: Grunter   2017-03-22 22:29  

#12  C'mon guys - it is at least reassuring to see that the Secret Service assigns only its best, brightest, and most security-minded agents to the Trump security detail ....
Posted by: Lone Ranger   2017-03-22 21:32  

#11  And why wasn't she fired for stupidity yesterday?
Posted by: Barbara   2017-03-22 15:45  

#10  And the ULTIMATE desired result of the dead drop by Argentieri if true?
Posted by: Thraimp Smiter of the Lutherans7058   2017-03-22 15:43  

#9  Might have been, Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. Either Ms Argentieri is entirely too careless to be employed by the Secret Service or she needs to spend a long stretch in prison for betraying her sworn duty. At any rate, the Service as a whole has clearly lost its way on the security side over the past eight years. Hopefully they are still competently executing their other responsibilities.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-03-22 13:54  

#8  Encryption is interesting, but would not the circumstances surrounding the purloinment suggest a password could have been provided? If so, encryption is meaningless, no?

Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy   2017-03-22 13:36  

#7  I searched the agent's name, and came up with this blogpost from Uncle Sam's Misguided Children. I have no idea how trustworthy it is.

Although the Secret Service does not allow agents to carry classified documents on their computers, the computer can be used to access that server. IF someone can get inside.

The Secret Service stated that the information cannot be “remotely erased.” Yet another report in Fox News stated that once the laptop was connected to the internet, it could be erased.

Fortunately, reports say that the laptop is encrypted
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-03-22 13:21  

#6  "Never attribute to malice that which is as easily explained by incompetence."

Embrace the power of "and".

After 8 years of Obama everyone should realize that malice and incompetence can go together very well.
Posted by: AlanC   2017-03-22 12:57  

#5  Assuming, for the sake of argument, that this was a dead drop -- why would we assume that the laptop contained *only* those documents it would normally contain?
Posted by: Iblis   2017-03-22 12:56  

#4  Hard disk of Secret Service's laptop was ancrypted isn't it? Or not?
Posted by: JFM   2017-03-22 12:32  

#3  "Never attribute to malice that which is as easily explained by incompetence."
"Once is happenstance, twice coincidence, three times is enemy action."
This and the White House sensor removal the other day make twice; watch for one more.
Posted by: Glenmore   2017-03-22 12:32  

#2  This is getting weirder and weirder.

Now it's not 3AM, but 8:40 in the morning.

Now it's not a 'car', but a smaller street bike. (proudly produced on the Indian subcontinent, no less - no rice-burner, Victory or Harley?)

Would make the laptop/backpack/SS kit bag easier to see, I guess.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2017-03-22 11:41  

#1  Sounds more and more like a dead drop.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-03-22 11:33  

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