January 6 committee to receive deleted Secret Service texts, Democrat says
Agency's account about how text messages from day before and day of the Capitol attack were erased has shifted several times
Deleted Secret Service texts sent on 6 January, the day of the insurrection at the US Capitol, and the day before will be released by Tuesday to the House committee investigating the failed attempt by supporters of Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 presidential election result, a panel member said.
You can imagine how shocked we were to get the letter from the [Department of Homeland Security] inspector general saying that he had been trying to get this information and that they had, in fact, been deleted after he'd asked for them," committee member and California Democratic congresswoman Zoe Lofgren told ABC's This Week.
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