Post #4234599
2026-07-30 09:02 UTC
Tunick’s lawyers claim the agents “never read him his Miranda rights,”
irrelevant unless his statements are going to be used against him
I don’t really see why this is an enormous civil liberties story. Destruction of evidence can, I think, legitimately be a crime even in a free and democratic society. It’s not like they’re trying to make the feature itself illegal…
Compared to thenation.com/…/you-can-be-prosecuted-clearing-yo… (from 2015 - 11 years ago, under the Obama administration!) where the person apparently didn’t even know the government might be considering the deleted stuff “evidence”, I find this story harmless.
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@wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2026-08-02 04:39
Except that, IIRC, it was not he, but an agent, who entered the duress PIN. He would have had to make a statement giving that PIN, and that statement would not be admissible if he weren’t read his rights. If the only evidence of destruction of evidence was a statement he supposedly made, then how will they prove that he made it if it is inadmissable? This is, of course, pretending we live in the world of Faerie, where laws, the constitution, and silly things like “legal precedent” still have meaning.