More relevant, from the author's 1-paragraph Atlantic bio:
> From 2005 to 2009 he was the deputy assistant secretary for policy of the Department of Homeland Security, overseeing the U.S. Secret Service.
Yet he writes the article as if he had zero insight into the Secret Service. Zero knowledge of their org chart, zero knowledge of their data retention policies, zero... The only card he shows is a very idealistic letter-of-the-law notion of how it should operate.
I could theorize about why that is... Plausible theories do not seem flattering to Mr. Rosenzweig, nor The Atlantic, nor readers of The Atlantic.
> There’s nothing here related to policing presidential behavior or decisions about...
No, nothing "policing" at all, about turning over detailed records on the rather clear commission of Sedition by a sitting Republican President, to a Democrat-controlled investigation. No chance that such records might help determine who wins the 2024 Presidential election. And no chance at all that a future Republican President and/or Congress would ever do anything to punish career employees of the Secret Service, if such records were turned over.