The Jan. 6 House Select Committee subpoenaed the Secret Service Friday in an effort to obtain text messages sent by agents on or around Jan. 6, 2021 that were allegedly deleted.
addressed to outgoing director James Murray, Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson notes that the “Select Committee has been informed that the USSS erased text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021 as part of a ‘device-replacement program,'” but states that the Secret Service told a different agency “none of the texts” requested for evaluation “had been lost in the migration.”
The committee first became aware of the deleted messages via a letter originally sent by the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General to the House and Senate homeland security committees. According to that letter, the DHS Inspector General had previously requested the Secret Service turn over the communications in Feb. 2021 as a part of its own investigations into the Capitol attack, only to be told the requested text messages had already been deleted.
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