Secret Service agents' January 6 texts were erased after oversight request

[Nevilledog]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/14/us-secret-service-agents-texts-erased-january-6

No paywall
https://archive.ph/DJmlt

Texts sent between US Secret Service agents on 5 and 6 January 2021 were erased after the agency’s oversight body sought the communications in a review into the Capitol attack, according to a letter from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General (OIG).

The disclosure in the letter, sent on Thursday to the House homeland security and Senate homeland security and government affairs committees, marked the latest failure for the Secret Service amid increasing scrutiny of their actions over the attack.

Appearing to rebuke the erasure of the messages, the inspector general, Joseph Cuffari, decried the move and noted that the destruction came only after the body sought the communications as part of an internal investigation into the agency’s response to the January 6 events.

“The USSS erased those text messages after OIG requested records of electronic communications from the USSS,” Cuffari said, including the emphasis on the sequencing of when the records destruction occurred.

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Leopold does FOIA request on January 11th

OIG and House request before they were erased.


At this point I cannot think of a reason for the destruction of texts messages that is not nefarious.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

2. This reeks to high heaven.

This feels like it’s own separate attack on our democracy.

Heads need to roll, people need to be prosecuted.

[Ahna KneeMoose]

3. Considering...

That a posted message (herein) was 'self-deleted' by it's author when the Original Posting is concerning message erasure...most-odd indeed (!).

[Nevilledog]

4. No it's not.

I saw it before Dalton deleted. All it said was the dog ate them.

[dickthegrouch]

5. After finding them juicier than the agents themselves?

[Nevilledog]

6. Major Biden was right about everything!

[Hekate]

7. Consciousness of guilt?

[Nevilledog]

8. That's my opinion. Only other option is unfathomable incompetence.

[Hekate]

10. Yeah. I'm going with guilt -- and rot

[duckworth969]

9. Secret Service & Supreme Court are both corrupt

[Emile]

11. Heads are about to roll in the

SS department.