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Secret Service deleted text messages ahead of Jan. 6 riot, says IG
The Hill ^ | 07/14/22 6:04 PM ET | BY CAROLINE VAKIL AND REBECCA BEITSCH -

Posted on 07/14/2022 3:38:03 PM PDT by RandFan

The inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) notified lawmakers that the U.S. Secret Service had deleted text messages on Jan. 5, 2021 and on the day of the Capitol riot itself after they had been formally requested by investigators.

DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari wrote in a letter addressed to House and Senate Homeland Security committees, which was given to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol rioting, that text messages from Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, 2021 had been “erased as part of a device-replacement program,” according to a copy of the letter obtained by The Hill and first reported by The Intercept.

“The USSS erased those text messages after OIG requested records of electronic communications from the USSS, as part of our evaluation of events at the Capitol on January 6,” Cuffari continued.

The letter said DHS officials had told the OIG that the could not provide records directly to the inspector general until they were reviewed by lawyers.

“Second, DHS personnel have repeatedly told OIG inspectors that they were not permitted to provide records directly to OIG and that such records had to first undergo review by DHS attorneys. This review led to weeks-long delays in OIG obtaining records and created confusion over whether all records had been produced,” he added.

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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 202101; 20210105; 20210106; 202207; demagogicparty; j6; january6th; josephcuffari
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1 posted on 07/14/2022 3:38:03 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

The cover up continues.


2 posted on 07/14/2022 3:39:34 PM PDT by taxcontrol (The choice is clear - either live as a slave on your knees or die as a free citizen on your feet.)
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To: taxcontrol

You got that right.


3 posted on 07/14/2022 3:41:05 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: RandFan
The inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) notified lawmakers that the U.S. Secret Service had deleted text messages on Jan. 5, 2021 and on the day of the Capitol riot itself after they had been formally requested by investigators.


FU, investigators. We bigger than you are.
4 posted on 07/14/2022 3:41:49 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: RandFan

“You mean, like wiped with a cloth?”

Seems like we’ve been here before.


5 posted on 07/14/2022 3:42:10 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: RandFan

Zero accountability.


6 posted on 07/14/2022 3:43:03 PM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: RandFan

They have ways to retrieve them. If they want them exposed.


7 posted on 07/14/2022 3:44:35 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: TornadoAlley3

UNDelete its called


8 posted on 07/14/2022 3:49:44 PM PDT by RandFan (For some reason I'm interested in politics, particularly the U.S. Senate)
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To: RandFan

Bfl


9 posted on 07/14/2022 3:53:52 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. It's "whatever".)
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To: taxcontrol

Getting phone/text message is a simple process. Secret Service even easier. What a load.


10 posted on 07/14/2022 3:58:44 PM PDT by M_Continuum
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To: RandFan

gee....why would they do such a thing??


11 posted on 07/14/2022 3:59:59 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: RandFan

oopsie


12 posted on 07/14/2022 4:07:33 PM PDT by Pollard (If there's a question mark in the headline, the answer should always be No.)
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To: taxcontrol

Indeed


13 posted on 07/14/2022 4:08:11 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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14 posted on 07/14/2022 4:09:08 PM PDT by Pollard (If there's a question mark in the headline, the answer should always be No.)
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To: RandFan

And Hildabeast deleted many thousands of emails.....


15 posted on 07/14/2022 4:33:18 PM PDT by rfreedom4u ("You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas")
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To: RandFan

What would happen if a Republican destroyed official gubmint records constituting evidence in an investigation? Yea, prolly nothing.


16 posted on 07/14/2022 4:34:36 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: RandFan

Do they have the video?


17 posted on 07/14/2022 5:19:17 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (DJT24)
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To: taxcontrol

The cover-up is generally worse of the crime. Will somebody be held accountable. Who gave the order? Was it Nancy Pelosi?


18 posted on 07/14/2022 5:27:52 PM PDT by ncfool (Joe Biden USSA.. United Socialist state of aMeriKa...... 11.3.2020 - President in waiting Kama-la-la)
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To: RandFan

I’m confounded by The Hill’s dismal writing. Is the accusation really that SS members physically deleted messages on Jan 5 and Jan 6, 2021?

Or, did SS members send or receive messages on Jan 5 and Jan 6, 2021, then delete them on some subsequent date?

The implications of the first (which is how the article is written) versus the second are significant, though either one could be a red herring.


19 posted on 07/14/2022 5:33:00 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: RandFan
824-F89-B3-599-D-4-EA8-B1-B6-319-D4-AC48-CA1

The FBi, Mueller and Weismann did it, and no one cared.


20 posted on 07/14/2022 5:34:18 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Lindsey Graham: How can anyone be Mad at Joe Biden)
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