The Department of Homeland Security inspector general has directed the U.S. Secret Service to halt its internal investigation into a cache of apparently deleted text messages sent on Jan. 6, 2021.
, as well as the National Archives' request that the agency submit a report within 30 days explaining the circumstances around the seemingly missing text messages.
Prior to the Inspector General's latest request, officials from within the U.S. Secret Service were in the process of sorting through metadata from the phones of the two dozen officials to determine if the agency failed to preserve any text messages that qualified as government records, according to a U.S. Secret Service official with knowledge of the internal probe. Agency policy does allow for"limited personal use" of U.S. government phones.
"That is the crux of the investigation," the Secret Service official told CBS News."If there is material from a Secret Service official to a Secret Service official that is deemed a government record, then that should have been uploaded by the employee. That is what the Inspector General and the Secret Service are looking at."
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