The Homeland Security watchdog who is accused of mishandling deleted Secret Service text messages from the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection violated ethics rules while at the Justice Department, according to a 2013 report.
Homeland Security’s internal watchdog had a chance to try and recover missing Secret Service text messages around the time of the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Lawmakers are calling for a new inspector general to head the investigation into deleted Secret Service text messages in connection with the Jan. 6 insurrection.
By Steve Neavling An internal Secret Service investigation has uncovered metadata showing text messages sent and received from the phones of 10 agents around the time of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots. The messages have since been deleted, and their content is unknown, CNN reports. The messages are at the center of the House…
The Secret Service says it’s unable to recover deleted text messages surrounding the Jan. 6 insurrection.
The U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection plans to receive previously deleted text messages from the Secret Service.
Secret Service agents erased text messages sent and received during a two-day period surrounding the Jan. 6 insurrection, the inspector general for Homeland Security said.
A Secret Service employee was “briefly detained” in Israel and sent back to the U.S. after he was accused of assaulting a woman outside a bar.
