Q.: What Will We Learn From Greg Bovino's CBP-Issued Devices, Later This Year?

We are finally at the point where the class plaintiffs will be able to test the veracity of Bovino's largely preposterous in court, under oath burpings. . . of last year -- and earlier this year.

CBP will have to provide the raw data and transcripts from these devices. Good news, but conveniently, Mr. Bovino claims he "lost" his work phone between Minnesota and South Dakota. How convenient. That would have had lots of older comms onboard. But as the team CBP lawyers note, "the cloud lives forever". And we will doubtless find much of interest there. Here's the latest, from USDC Judge Sara Ellis' court docket in the Dirksen in Chicago:

. . .Mr. Bovino declined to surrender his personal cell phone. Mr. Bovino did, however, orally inform CBP officials that he had no work-related documents or communications on his personal cell phone. . . .

The CBP-issued phone that Mr. Bovino had in his custody at the time of his separation from the agency in March 2026 was a replacement phone that was issued to him in January 2026. Mr. Bovino reported a previously-issued work phone as lost in January 2026 while travelling between Minnesota and South Dakota. A new phone was issued to Mr. Bovino in January 2026.

To preserve the integrity of the data on the lost phone, CBP suspended the typical security feature that would auto-delete data on a CBP-issued phone that is reported lost. CBP worked to obtain the approximate geocoordinates of the phone’s last known location and dispatched officers to that location to search for the phone, but it was not recovered. Any data on the lost phone that is stored in a CBP cloud-based repository has been preserved, including communications and documents on Microsoft applications such as Outlook, Word, and Teams.

Additionally, CBP has been able to recover SMS and MMS messages from his lost phone, and those messages are being preserved. . . .

That preserved cloud data will make Bovino sweat, to a near-certainty.

In more mundane news, I am headed back across the pond a lil' early, as other duties require attention here -- so this is the final in-air post. . . out of Dublin now and over the Atlantic. Smile -- go Buffs, in about an hour -- even though you are 10 point 'dawgs. U: Buffs fall to 2-2. Oh well. Tough home game next week, too. Out.

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