The service acknowledges that some texts of 24 of its employees from Jan. 5 and 6, 2021 were erased despite federal laws requiring they be kept, but says it…
The matter has spawned a slew of investigations — first by the Secret Service itself — until the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the agency, took control of the probe. The National Archives and Records Administration wants a report within 30 days. A congressional committee may convene hearings. On Friday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin asked the Justice Department to investigate.
“Inspector General Cuffari’s actions in this matter, which follow other troubling reports about his conduct as Inspector General, cast serious doubt on his independence,” Representatives Carolyn Maloney, chairwoman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, and Bennie Thompson, chair of the Homeland Security committee and the one investigating the Jan. 6 riot, wrote in a letter released Tuesday.Furthering the concerns: the head of the Secret Service, James Murray, is also a Trump appointee.
The Secret Service is celebrated in American culture for heroics, real and imagined. Agent Jerry Parr pushed Ronald Reagan into the presidential limousine during an assassination attempt in 1981, likely saving his life. Clint Eastwood’s fictional agent Frank Horrigan jumped in front of an assassin’s bullet in the 1993 Hollywood thriller “In the Line of Fire.”
Other embarrassments include two senior agents crashing into a White House barricade during an active bomb investigation in 2015, after they were drinking at a party. In 2012, agents hired prostitutes during a presidential trip to a Summit of the Americas gathering in Cartagena, Colombia.Article contentThe text deletions surfaced after riveting testimony to the House Jan. 6 panel from former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson.
As the committee sought agency texts, Cuffari notified the panel that messages from 24 employees on Jan. 5 and 6 had been erased.
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