DHS: Critical ICE surveillance footage from abuse case was never recorded(www.404media.co)
138 pointsby cf100clunk11 days ago9 comments
  • Brian_K_White11 days ago
    In the quaint olden days there used to be a concept that the appearance of impropriety was as bad or worse than actual impropriety for exactly this reason.
  • the_snooze11 days ago
    The purpose of a system is what it does.
  • 1attice11 days ago
    Why is this flagged? When did Internet censorship become a non-tech story?
  • brrwind11 days ago
    Why was this flagged?
    • BoredPositron11 days ago
      404 is auto flagged.
      • slater11 days ago
        It's not.
        • viraptor11 days ago
          Dang's response a while ago when I reported a dead 404media link:

          > The site 404media.co is banned on HN because it has been the source of too many low-quality posts and because many (most?) of their articles are behind a signup wall. So that's why that one was killed. I've unkilled it now.

          (I'd extremely disagree with the low-quality part)

        • BoredPositron10 days ago
          You are right it's auto dead and needs vouches which in return reduces the flag threshold.
    • RobertDeNiro11 days ago
      There are pro-Trump bots that automatically try to get things removed if they paint the administration in any negative light.
    • ronsor11 days ago
      The real reason:

      > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, [...]. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

      From the guidelines linked at the bottom of the page.

      • ranger_danger10 days ago
        There many, many politics stories posted here that never get taken down.
  • JKCalhoun11 days ago
    I'm reading it was from a "system crash", or maybe it never existed, and that even if it existed it would be of no use.

    Okay.

  • cyberge9911 days ago
    How much will that cost taxpayers when a judgment is entered for punitive damages?
    • actionfromafar11 days ago
      Whatever it is, Much less than any Trump and friends grift.
  • belter11 days ago
    Clearly the same team that was doing tech support for the Epstein cameras.
    • actionfromafar11 days ago
      Maybe we can soon get an "unedited, raw" video with a mouse pointer on it!
    • goatlover11 days ago
      Forget which Youtube channel it is, but there was a video recently detailing how one of the cameras that was supposedly not working the day of Epstein's death, had footage from the next day even though it was supposedly not fixed along with the other cameras until a few days later. I believe this footage was part of a recent Epstein files dump, when they DOJ was still doing dumps. It was from a different angle that gave a much better view of downstairs cell block including the stairs going up to his cell.
  • jandrese11 days ago
    Running the administration's statement through my bullshit filter says they deleted the footage because it was too incriminating. I am also skeptical about the statement that it's irrelevant because they fixed the problem.
    • cucumber373284211 days ago
      Nah. Nobody who's career goes anywhere in government is that dumb.

      I'd bet a lot of money that once things got "bad for my job" level bad people turned off the recording without having to be told. This is SOP slimy government behavior. Everything from your local permitting office to the CIA.

      So they're probably right, the footage never existed, but the reason is even more damning.

      • jandrese11 days ago
        Counterpoint: Have you seen this administration? You don't think Kristi Noem would tell a baldfaced lie if it served her interests? I mean we only have several examples of her doing exactly that.

        This is the government you get when you hire based on loyalty instead of competence.