I bet the other 998 FBI agents are happy to get their texts back.
The “1000 agents were affected” was basically fake news to dilute the Strzok/Page texts.
“....fake news to dilute the Strzok/Page texts.”
I tend to agree with that. You couldn’t have a case where only one single guy had a deletion problem....it had to be a minimum of 1,000. I’m guessing the Samsung folks stood there when this was first mentioned in public and felt bewilderment, shame, etc....then they wanted to understand how this was possible, and in hours the whole story fell apart.
You’d have to be a total idiot to believe that when something is deleted....it’s gone forever. And once you cross emails through different servers...there’s various copies sitting around. The days of no-back-up capability are long gone.
But I will suggest this....90-percent of this 50,000 message base will be gossip, sexually suggestive stuff, chat over DC Metro subway, and clothing styles. Whoever gets poked to go and read all 50,000 is going to miserable for six weeks as they seek to categorize the texts. In the end, both Page and Strzok will look like 12-year-old kids in behavior.
You made me start thinking.
Since the phones had all the text all along, what if the whole “Texts missing” story was a lie in order to SCRUB the phones of any incriminating data and THEN say they found them?
They could present the entire message collection as complete, without admitting they “lost” not all—but “some” of the messages?
Where’s/who’s the chain of custody?
They lied about one thing to save themselves and that means they’ll lie about ANYTHING to save themselves.
Think about it folks!