The Department of Homeland Security’s chief watchdog has launched a criminal probe into the Secret Service’s missing text messages from around the time of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Thursday that the inspector general notified the agency in a letter about the investigation. He said the Secret Service alerted lawmakers investigating the Capitol attack by supporters of former president Donald Trump about the probe.
“We have informed the January 6th Select Committee of the Inspector General’s request and will conduct a thorough legal review to ensure we are fully cooperative with all oversight efforts and that they do not conflict with each other,” Guglielmi said in a statement.Wednesday revealing that his office had failed for months to alert Congress that the Secret Service deleted texts for this key period of time surrounding Jan. 6.
The letter from Cuffari’s office also came after the Secret Service notified the House select committee that it could provide no new texts in response to their subpoena last week due to massive deletions of those records — and also that the agency had launched a fresh investigation to see if it could find them.The erased texts of Secret Service agentsplanned Trump’s logistics on Jan.
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