QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODES: POLITICAL BIGTIME
A Texas Legislature Walkout Update

While under heavy criticism for the way troopers were conducting their hunt for House Democrats on the lam, the Texas Department of Public Safety ordered all records related to the search destroyed.

The state police today defended its actions as being required under federal privacy laws.

But

By May 13, Democrats involved in the walkout were complaining that DPS' investigation involved the harassment of their families.

Congressional Democrats also raised questions May 14 about whether the DPS misused a federal Homeland Security Department agency in searching for former Speaker Pete Laney's airplane the day of the walkout.

A DPS officer had called the Air and Marine Interdiction Coordination Center asking for help locating Laney's aircraft.

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So, privacy laws or no, the DPS already knew that they may have broken laws in their "investigation" and that such records would probably, at some point, constitute evidence. Destroying evidence is a crime. So is obstruction of justice.

Just another day at work for our state police force.

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