Watchdog Says Secret Service Deleted Jan. 6 Text Messages

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WASHINGTON (AP) — 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.

The Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General, in a letter obtained by The Associated Press, said the messages between Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, 2021, were erased “as part of a device-replacement program.” The erasure came after the watchdog office requested records of electronic communications between the agents as part of its probe into events surrounding the Jan. 6 attack.

Additionally, Homeland Security personnel were told they couldn’t provide records to the inspector general and any such records would first have to be reviewed by DHS attorneys.

“This review led to a weeks-long delay 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.

Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said, “We take strong issue with these categorically false claims and I will be responding in detail shortly.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/secret-service-deleted-text-messages-capitol-riot-investigation_n_62d0c289e4b04aa0fe659edf

If true, they all should be fired!

It shows a complete lack of integrity.

[Chainfire]

1. I seem to note a strong smell of bullshit coming from the SS.

Do they even care that people know that they are lying to protect Trump?

[Meadowoak]

3. No, they don't. In fact, lying is a prerequisite.

[RockRaven]

2. "Lack of integrity" is far too generous of a description. It shows a *knowing* effort to cover up

their planning of and participation in an overthrow of the lawfully elected government of the United States of America.

Whoever ordered this, whoever did this, they are traitors. And the DHS OIG is fucking impotently standing there wringing its hands over what's been done right under its nose, right in its damn face.

[C_U_L8R]

4. This is a grave national security issue.

The FBI ought to be executing warrants... over a year ago.

[halfulglas]

5. It's really shady they get "accidentally erased" AFTER the request for them.

They've been coasting on their reputation for quite a while now. Some crap is about to be exposed.

Back in the day I used to work for a transcription service. When we were told to retain records we didn't all of a sudden decide to clean our hard drives.