Secret Service watchdog suppressed memo on January 6 texts erasure
by Hugo Lowell in Washington DC from US news | The Guardian on (#62DQT)
Officials at the DHS's office of inspector general said their attempts to inform Congress in April were thwarted
Top career officials at the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) office of the inspector general (OIG) tried to alert Congress in April that Secret Service texts from the time of the January 6 Capitol attack had been erased, but their efforts were nixed by its leadership, documents show.
The officials inside the inspector general's office - the chief watchdog for the Secret Service - prepared a memo that detailed how the Secret Service was resisting the oversight body's review into January 6, and delayed informing it about the lost texts.
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