The Secret Service insists proper procedures were followed.
WASHINGTON — Secret Service agents deleted text messages sent and received around the Jan. 6, 2021, even after an inspector general requested them as part of an investigation into the insurrection, the government watchdog has found.
“This review led to a weeks-long delays in OIG obtaining records and created confusion over whether all records had been produced,” states the letter, which was dated Wednesday and sent to leaders of the House and Senate Homeland Security committees. The inspector general has first requested the electronic communications on Feb. 26, “after the migration was well under way,” Guglielmi said.
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