The U.S. Secret Service has determined it has no new texts to provide Congress relevant to its Jan. 6 investigation, and that any other texts its agents exchanged around the time of the 2021 attack on the Capitol were purged, according to a senior official briefed on the matter.
WaPo
Also...are governmental electronic devices not routinely backed up? If not, why not? They damned well should be.
Also...give those "replaced" devices to computer techs to retrieve the "erased" messages.
UPDATE 7/20: Worse yet: they turned over ONE text message.
UPDATE: Even more damning...Ronald Rowe, the assistant director for the Office of Intergovernmental and Legislative Affairs for the Secret Service, said in the letter that the agency submitted a conversation between former US Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund and former Secret Service Uniformed Division Chief Thomas Sullivan, in which Sund requested assistance on Jan. 6.
Rowe said the agency advised that it did not have any additional records that satisfy the inspector general’s request for text messages, CNN reported.
The Hill
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