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The Guardian reports:
The House select committee investigating the Capitol attack has issued a subpoena to the US Secret Service for text messages from 5 January and 6 January 2021 understood to have been erased, pursuing what investigators suspect might be an instance of corruptly destroyed records.
The subpoena issued late on Friday – the first to an executive branch agency – compelled the production of messages and after-action reports concerning the attack as part of a sweeping records demand aiming to establish the circumstances around the erasure of some communications and obtain any that remain.
The New York Times reports:
Representative Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland and a member of the committee, said the panel wants to hear more from the Secret Service to try to understand what happened.
“The committee is absolutely determined to get to the bottom of this and to find all of the missing texts,” Mr. Raskin told reporters on Capitol Hill. “They are missing, but in the age of high technology, we should not give up.”
The subpoena comes as the committee continues to barrel ahead in its investigation even as it prepares for what could be the final hearing of its summer schedule: a prime-time session on Thursday focused on former President Donald J. Trump’s 187 minutes of inaction as a mob of his supporters assaulted Congress.
CNN reports:
Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat who chairs the committee, wrote in a letter Friday to Secret Service Director James Murray that the panel is seeking Secret Service text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021, and reiterated three previous requests for information by congressional committees.
Earlier Friday, Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Joseph Cuffari told the committee in a briefing that the Secret Service did not conduct its own after-action review regarding January 6 and chose to rely on the inspector general investigation, according to a source familiar with the briefing.
The Secret Service, Cuffari told the panel, has not been fully cooperative with his probe. Thompson confirmed the inspector general’s remarks on a lack of cooperation, telling CNN, “Well, they have not been fully cooperating,” and that the panel has “had limited engagement with Secret Service.”
The Select Committee has issued a subpoena for records from the United States Secret Service.
In a letter to Secret Service Director James Murray, Chair @BennieGThompson sought information about Secret Service text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021 that were reportedly erased.
— January 6th Committee (@January6thCmte) July 16, 2022
The Jan. 6 panel issued a subpoena to the Secret Service seeking text messages from Jan. 5 and 6, 2021, which were said to have been erased.
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 16, 2022