Jan. 6 committee subpoenas Secret Service for missing records
Category: News & Politics
Via: hallux • 2 years ago • 2 commentsBy: Jacqueline Alemany and Maria Sacchetti - WaPo
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol issued a subpoena to the U.S. Secret Service on Friday requesting records after a government watchdog accused the agency of erasing texts from Jan. 5 and 6 after his office requested them.
“The Select Committee has been informed that the USSS erased text messages from Jan. 5 and 6, 2021 as part of a ‘device-replacement program.’ In a statement issued July 14, 2022, the USSS stated that it ‘began to reset its mobile phones to factory settings as part of a pre-planned, three-month system migration. In that process, data resident on some phones was lost.’ However, according to that USSS statement, ‘none of the texts [the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General] was seeking had been lost in the migration,” Thompson wrote.
The subpoena is the first the committee has issued to an executive branch agency.
Of course they could always ask Russia ... /s
There's always a copy somewhere. At least they didn't get the Bit Bleach and Hammer treatment