The National Archives has asked the Secret Service to investigate the “potential unauthorized deletion” of text messages on the day of the Jan. 6 attack and the day before.
The National Archives and Records Administration “requests that the Secret Service look into this matter,” an agency official, Laurence Brewer,The Department of Homeland Security’s inspector generalto the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol last week informing the panel that the Secret Service had deleted text messages from Jan. 5 and 6.
A Secret Service spokesperson had vehemently disputed allegations by DHS' inspector general that the text messages had been erased. Spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said data from some phones had been lost as part of a"pre-planned, three-month system migration" but that the Secret Service was continuing to cooperate with the Jan. 6 panel.
"The United States Secret Service has been and continues to be fully cooperative with the January 6th Select Committee," Gugliemi said in a statement to NBC News. In the lengthy statement, Gugliemi also said the Secret Service"fully respects and supports the important role" of the National Archives.
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