The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection issued a subpoena to the U.S. Secret Service on Friday following reports that the agency deleted texts messages dated back to Jan. 5 and 6, 2021.
Committee Chairman Benny Thompson (D-Miss.) said in a release that the committee is seeking the relevant text messages and any “after action” reports that were issued in any divisions of the Secret Service relating to the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Thompson sent a letter to Secret Service Director James Murray informing him of the subpoena.
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A Secret Service spokesman said in a statement after the texts’ deletion was revealed that the messages related to the investigation into Jan. 6 were not affected by the reset.
He said the agency had been cooperating with the inspector general’s investigation and rejected the “insinuation that the Secret Service maliciously deleted text messages following a request.”
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Jan. 6 committee subpoenas Secret Service after reports of erased messages https://t.co/0ezfBSrUNF pic.twitter.com/sOGquc1EXR
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Breaking: The Jan. 6 committee has issued a subpoena for records from the United States Secret Service. In a letter to Secret Service Director James Murray, @BennieGThompson "sought information about USSS text messages from Jan 5 & 6, 2021 that were reportedly erased …" pic.twitter.com/eNBHQyeEUz
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