Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss) said in a statement the committee is demanding the Secret Service hand over the “erased” messages and a slew of other documents by Tuesday.
“The USSS erased text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021, as part of a ‘device-replacement program,’” Thompson said late Friday. He said the panel “seeks the relevant text messages, as well as any after action reports that have been issued in any and all divisions of the USSS pertaining or relating in any way to the events of January 6, 2021.”
A Secret Service agent stands by as Marine One carries President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden lands on July 10, 2022.that the lawmakers were briefed about OIG’s findings into the reported deleted text messages on and around Jan. 6. The Secret Service has denied any wrongdoing and said the erased messages were simply part of the agency-wide replacement program during which “data resident on some phones was lost.”
“The Secret Service notified DHS OIG of the loss of certain phones’ data, but confirmed to OIG that none of the texts it was seeking had been lost in the migration.”
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