The House Jan. 6 panel said on July 19 that the Secret Service failed to deliver subpoenaed text messages from Jan. 5–6, 2021, which the panel said had been “erased.” However, the Secret Service has denied the charge, saying that the missing texts are accounted for by standard agency policy not to discuss security situations over text.
A cache of Secret Service agent text messages from the weeks leading up to the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally, which had been subpoenaed by the House committee for delivery by the morning of July 20, did not contain texts from Jan. 5 and 6, which the committee considered crucial, according to panel member Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.).
