Secret Service Deleted Jan. 6 Text Messages: Inspector General

Secret Service Deleted Jan. 6 Text Messages: Inspector General
Secret Service agents in Hickory, N.C., on Nov. 1, 2020. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
Zachary Stieber
Zachary Stieber
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U.S. Secret Service text messages sent on the day the U.S. Capitol was breached were deleted, a watchdog said this week.

A number of texts from Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, 2021, “were erased as part of a device-replacement program,” Joseph Cuffari, the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general, told lawmakers in a July 13 letter was obtained by The Epoch Times.
Zachary Stieber
Zachary Stieber
Senior Reporter
Zachary Stieber is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times based in Maryland. He covers U.S. and world news. Contact Zachary at [email protected]
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