'If you continue to obstruct, we will have no choice but to consider alternate means to ensure compliance,' the lawmakers write.
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This is the second letter they have jointly sent to the DHS IG requesting information, amid new allegations that career staff in Cuffari's office prepared a notice to Congress earlier this year about their difficulty obtaining Secret Service text messages connected to Jan. 6, but the notice was not included in the government watchdog's required regular report to lawmakers.
A Secret Service spokesman last month acknowledged text messages from Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, 2021, were deleted after being sought by the DHS inspector general. The letter sent by the committee chairs lays out how they say the inspector general might have violated the Inspector General Act.
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