Marcy Wheeler notes an interesting issue with both Giuliani and Trump attacking the FBI over Peter Strzok’s text messages. Why aren’t they attacking the contractor who was keeping those texts for the government?

(Short answer from me would be “the contractor isn’t investigating Trump.”)

If Trump Is So Concerned that a DOJ Contractor Failed to Archive Texts, Why Not Hold the Contractor Accountable? (Goes to emptywheel, more at the link):

The claim is, like so much else emanating from these two men’s twitter thumbs, an either willful or ignorant misstatement, this one based on a DOJ IG Report on efforts to collect Strzok-Page texts that, because of a technical malfunction, didn’t get collected by an FBI contractor. It conflates efforts to replace texts sent using their FBI-issued Samsung Galaxy phones (where some 19,000 texts did not get archived, though the number itself is inflated because it would necessarily include a lot of overlap) with a belated effort to check their Mueller-issued iPhones. Worse still, it talks about texts that actually were recovered.