Secret Service confirms Jan. 6-related text messages were deleted even though panel and watchdog sought them
But Jan. 6 committee staff said Wednesday that the panel had received only one text message from the Secret Service from the July 15 subpoena. The committee would not specify the content of that text, but members of the committee had made clear this is not sufficient.
"Nobody along the way stopped and thought, 'well, maybe we shouldn't do the migration of data and of the devices until we are able to fulfill these four requests from Congress,'" Murphy said on MSNBC. The Secret Service's response to the committee came the same day the National Archives requested that the agency investigate"the potential unauthorized deletion" of the texts.by the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General, obtained by CBS News, that told lawmakers that Secret Service messages between Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, 2021, were erased"as part of a device-replacement program.
The National Archives, which is in charge of government record-keeping, asked the Secret Service to investigate the possible erasure of the messages and report back within 30 days in a letter that CBS News has obtained. The Secret Service responded by telling The Associated Press that"the insinuation that the Secret Service maliciously deleted text messages following a request is false."
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