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.
The department, or DHS, is the Secret Service’s parent agency.
The deletions were done after Cuffari’s office (OIG) requested the records as part of its evaluation of the events at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to Cufarri, a Trump appointee….