The US Secret Service erased text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021, shortly after they were requested by oversight officials investigating the agency’s response to the US Capitol riot, according to ...

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Questions over potential deleted Secret Service text messages surrounding January 6 burst into view earlier this month with a letter from the Department of Homeland Security inspector general, ...

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The Secret Service was only able to provide a single text exchange to the DHS inspector general who had requested a month's worth of records for 24 Secret Service personnel, according to a letter to ...

Text messages sent and received by Secret Service agents around the time of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol were deleted even after an inspector general requested them as part of an ...

Washington — Secret Service text messages from around the time of the attack on the U.S. Capitol were deleted despite requests from Congress and federal investigators that they be preserved, the ...

The drama in Washington shines a light on the challenges in securing mobile communications and the role that document destruction and retention policies play in organizational security. The U.S.

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Joseph Cuffari said in the letter that the Secret Service justified the erased messages as part of a "device-replacement program" New information ...

The Secret Service may have violated a federal records-keeping law when it allegedly deleted agents' text messages, the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot said. The ...

The Department of Homeland Security's internal watchdog has opened a criminal investigation into the destruction of Secret Service phone text messages related to the days around the Jan. 6 Capitol ...