> The commission says that Mr. Seibert determined that the messages’ “sole aim” was scheduling, and that they did not need to be retained.
> The commission says it now cannot find the texts, and suggests, without stating it explicitly, that it no longer has them. It explains that Ms. von der Leyen has replaced her phone repeatedly since 2021 without fully transferring the data to her new devices. And it says that when Mr. Seibert recently searched her latest device and her messages on the Signal app, he did not find the exchanges.
> The picture that emerges is one of a powerful president whose written communications about a matter of great public interest, at a critical moment in recent history, appear to have been shared with only her closest adviser, and then lost or disposed of.
I’m simultaneously not surprised at all and still mind blown by how badly data stewardship and IT is handled by world leadership.
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> The commission says that Mr. Seibert determined that the messages’ “sole aim” was scheduling, and that they did not need to be retained.
> The commission says it now cannot find the texts, and suggests, without stating it explicitly, that it no longer has them. It explains that Ms. von der Leyen has replaced her phone repeatedly since 2021 without fully transferring the data to her new devices. And it says that when Mr. Seibert recently searched her latest device and her messages on the Signal app, he did not find the exchanges.
> The picture that emerges is one of a powerful president whose written communications about a matter of great public interest, at a critical moment in recent history, appear to have been shared with only her closest adviser, and then lost or disposed of.
I’m simultaneously not surprised at all and still mind blown by how badly data stewardship and IT is handled by world leadership.