Secret Service finds record of deleted text messages from around January 6 on the phones of at least TEN agents as Department of Homeland Security continues criminal probe of agency
Secret Service investigators have discovered metadata showing text messages were sent and received on at least 10 agents' phones but were deleted
Investigators were working to determine whether the content of these texts contained information about the Capitol insurrection
Those text messages, members of the House select committee investigating January 6 say, should have been preserved amid an ongoing probe
The agency says the text messages may have been deleted accidentally amid a months-long data migration of its phones
It also now says it never received a copy of a Congressional letter asking it to preserve all records related to the Capitol insurrection
By Melissa Koenig For Dailymail.Com
Published: 01:36 EDT, 25 July 2022 | Updated: 02:58 EDT, 25 July 2022
Before it was instructed to halt its investigation last week, the United States Secret Service found records of deleted text messages on or around January 6, 2021, stored on the phones of at least 10 agents.
Secret Service investigators discovered metadata showing that text messages were sent and received on at least 10 agents' phones in the days surrounding the Capitol riot - but have since been deleted, according to CNN.
Investigators were then working to determine whether the content of these texts contained information about the attempted insurrection, and whether they should have been preserved amid an ongoing House investigation into the riot, two unnamed sources told the network.
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