The Secret Service has concluded it does not have any new text messages to turn over to the House Jan. 6 committee, according to a report.
The agency was subpoenaed by the panel for relevant text messages from agents from Jan. 5-6, 2021, and had been given until Tuesday to comply with the request, but officials concluded the agency no longer possessed the text messages, a source told the Washington Post.On Tuesday, the National Archives and Records Administration requested the Secret Service investigate whether text messages from the period in question were"improperly deleted.
The agency did not maliciously purge text message material but lost the material due to a"device-replacement program," Guglielmi previously stressed. The replacement program began about a month before the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General sought those records, according to Guglielmi. The OIG made shockwaves last week when it informed the Jan. 6 committee that Secret Service text messages from Jan. 5-6, 2021, had been erased.
Guglielmi contended that some data had been lost but suggested “none of the texts” the OIG was after had been missing, the Washington Post reported. This prompted the Jan. 6 committee to subpoena the Secret Service for text messages from during the period in question.
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