The National Archives is looking into reports that the Secret Service deleted texts
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Reports that the Secret Service deleted text messages related to Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection have caught the attention of the chief records officer at the National Archives.
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The National Archives is looking into reports that the Secret Service deleted texts
The texts were erased after the DHS inspector general requested electronic communications records from the Secret Service as part of its examination of Jan. 6 events.
Homeland Security Inspector General Joseph Cuffari said he was informed that many of the messages from Jan. 5 and Jan. 6 had been erased “as part of a device-replacement program.”
A Secret Service spokesman disputes the Department of Homeland Security inspector general's account, saying its request came after a mobile phone migration had started, but no messages were lost.
The U.S. Secret Service deleted many text messages sent over two days about the Jan. 6 attack after they were requested, according to the inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security.
The U.S. Secret Service erased a number of text messages on Jan. 6, 2021 -- the day of the attack on the U.S. Capitol by radical supporters of former President Donald Trump -- as well as the day before, a government watchdog said in a letter to lawmakers this week. The inspector general of the...
Reports that the Secret Service deleted text messages related to Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection have caught the attention of the chief records officer at the National Archives.
WASHINGTON — The National Archives on Tuesday requested that the Secret Service investigate “the potential unauthorized deletion” of agency text messages sent and received around the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Secret Service text messages from around the time of the attack on the U.S. Capitol were deleted despite requests from Congress and federal investigators that they be preserved, the agency confirmed Tuesday in response to a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 committee.
The National Archives and Record Administration asked the U.S. Secret Service investigate claims that the agency deleted text messages following the Jan. 6 capitol riot.
The National Archives “requests that the Secret Service look into this matter,” an Archives official wrote Tuesday to the Department of Homeland Security.
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol issued a subpoena to the Secret Service demanding text messages and other records.
This reeks like week-old trash. There are now three different federal entities looking for text messages sent by Secret Service agents on January 5 and 6, 2021. One is the inspector general for the De...
A trove of Secret Service texts from January 6 were deleted, according to a watchdog, and the House January 6 committee is now investigating the matter.
The deletion of the messages has raised the prospect of lost evidence that could shed further light on then-President Donald Trump’s actions during the insurrection.
The National Archives has requested a probe of "the potential unauthorized deletion" of text messages the Secret Service sent and received around the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The National Archives has joined a growing list of federal agencies and officials demanding answers about a batch of missing text messages from the US Secret Service from January 5 and 6, 2021, that may have been deleted.
