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2017-03-22 -Lurid Crime Tales-

UPDATE: ‘Stolen' Secret Service Laptop Was Left On A Motorcycle Outside Agent's Home

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Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2017-03-22 10:53|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Sounds more and more like a dead drop.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-03-22 11:33|| 2017-03-22 11:33|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2017-03-22 11:41|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2017-03-22 12:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Hard disk of Secret Service's laptop was ancrypted isn't it? Or not?

Posted by JFM 2017-03-22 12:32|| 2017-03-22 12:32|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2017-03-22 12:56|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2017-03-22 12:57|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2017-03-22 13:21|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2017-03-22 13:36|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2017-03-22 13:54|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2017-03-22 15:43|| Front Page Top

#11 And why wasn't she fired for stupidity yesterday?

Posted by Barbara 2017-03-22 15:45|| 2017-03-22 15:45|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2017-03-22 21:32|| Front Page Top

#13 Do Secret Service agents normally tool around on dinky little motorbikes?

Posted by Grunter 2017-03-22 22:29|| 2017-03-22 22:29|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2017-03-22 22:29|| Front Page Top

#15 Bring her in. Sweat her till she sings.

Posted by Iblis 2017-03-22 23:10|| 2017-03-22 23:10|| Front Page Top

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