Secret Service resisted informing watchdog agency of missing texts

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NEW: Top career officials inside the DHS inspector general’s office drafted a memo to alert Congress in April that Secret Service texts had been erased — but the memo was suppressed and never got included in Cuffari’s report. @GuardianUS

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Secret Service resisted informing watchdog agency of missing texts
Officials at the DHS’s office of inspector general said their attempts to inform Congress in April were thwarted
2:46 PM · Aug 11, 2022

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Top career officials at the Department of Homeland Security’s office of inspector general tried to alert Congress in April that Secret Service texts from the time of the January 6 Capitol attack had been erased, but their efforts were nixed by its leadership, documents show.

The new revelations appear to show that the chief watchdog for the Secret Service and DHS took deliberate steps to stop the retrieval of texts it knew were missing.

The officials inside the inspector general’s office – the chief watchdog for the Secret Service – prepared a memo that detailed how the Secret Service was resisting the oversight body’s review into January 6, and delayed informing it about the lost texts.

But after the memo was emailed to the DHS inspector general Joseph Cuffari’s chief of staff, its contents were never seen again, and the disclosure about the erased text messages was never included in Cuffari’s semi-annual report to Congress about oversight work.

The revelation shows that the Secret Service only admitted texts from January 6 were lost months after they were requested by the inspector general’s office, and that Cuffari might have violated federal law in not reporting the matter in the report to Congress.

As noted in the memo, obtained by the Project on Government Oversight and reviewed by the Guardian, the Inspector General Act of 1978 required Cuffari to report “significantly delayed access to information, including the justification of the establishment for such action”.

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[Hekate]

1. Is Cuffari still there or was he a Trump appointee? Either way, somebody ought to be in Big Trouble

[RockRaven]

3. Both. nt

[LiberalFighter]

10. At a minimum until he is removed they should assign his desk to a freezer.

With no assignment except to guard his desk.

[RockRaven]

2. Reminder: Biden has adequate justification to remove this obviously corrupt IG but he hasn't.

[uponit7771]

7. +1, set out an outside panel and set the presidence so other IGs that need to be removed

... can be done independent of POTUS.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

4. The deepest state!

The swampiest swamp.

[NBachers]

5. FBI - If you're listening. . .

[uponit7771]

6. "suppressed" my ass, Cuffari withheld pertinent evidence and should be inspected himself

[Nevilledog]

8. Yeah.... I'm tired of weasel words.

Like why call them conservatives when they're extremists.

[crickets]

9. This. Cuffari has to go. nt