Secret Service agents deleted Jan 6. text messages, watchdog says
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A Secret Service spokesman objected to the letter, saying: “The insinuation that the Secret Service maliciously deleted text messages following a request is false."
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By Jamie Gangel, Zachary Cohen and Ryan Nobles, CNN The US Secret Service erased text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021, shortly after they were requested by oversight officials investigating the agency’s response to the US Capitol riot, according to a letter given to the House select committee in…
The US Secret Service erased text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021, shortly after they were requested by oversight officials investigating the agency's response to the US Capitol riot, according to a letter given to the House select committee investigating the insurrection and obtained by CNN.
A government watchdog has found that Secret Service agents deleted text messages sent and received around the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol after an inspector general requested them as part of the investigation into the insurrection.
A Secret Service spokesman objected to the letter, saying: “The insinuation that the Secret Service maliciously deleted text messages following a request is false."
A government watchdog has found that Secret Service agents deleted text messages sent and received around the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol after an inspector general requested them as part of the investigation into the insurrection.
A government watchdog has found that Secret Service agents deleted text messages sent and received around the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol after an inspector general requested them as part of the investigation into the insurrection.
A government watchdog has found that Secret Service agents deleted text messages sent and received around the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol after an inspector general requested them as part of the investigation into the insurrection.
WASHINGTON — Secret Service agents deleted text messages sent and received around the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol even after an inspector general requested them as part of an investigation into the insurrection, the government watchdog has found.
A government oversight official told congressional committees the Secret Service deleted the texts as a congressional probe turns its focus on the agency.
The Secret Service reportedly deleted text messages from Jan. 5 and 6, 2021 after oversight officials requested the agency's electronic communications, a letter sent to the Jan.
The Secret Service deleted text messages from Jan. 5 and 6 last year after oversight officials investigating the Capitol riot requested them, according to a government watchdog.
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.
