Secret Service told to begin an inquiry into erased January 6 text messages
by Hugo Lowell in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#61JXP)
The National Archives asked the agency to report in a month on whether messages were improperly deleted'
The US National Archives has asked the Secret Service to conduct an internal investigation over erased" text messages from the day before and the day of the Capitol attack, according to a letter sent to the agency's records management officer on Tuesday.
The request marks the latest escalation of the matter after the watchdog for the Secret Service, the Department of Homeland Security inspector general, notified Congress he had sought the texts only to be told they no longer existed.
Continue reading...