Secret Service Claims It Can’t Recover Deleted Texts

CNN reports:

The US Secret Service produced an “initial set of documents” to the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection on Tuesday, in response to a subpoena last week that was issued amid reports of potentially missing text messages from the day of the insurrection.

“Our delivery included thousands of pages of documents, Secret Service cell phone use and other policies, as well as operational and planning records,” USSS spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement.

However, Tuesday’s document production didn’t include any of the potentially missing texts from January 5 and6, 2021, a Secret Service official told CNN. That’s because the agency still has not been able to recover any records that were lost during a phone migration around that time, the official said.

PURGED — Here’s the news. ⁦Those @SecretService⁩ texts are gone, gone, gone . Agency scoured records and said it found nothing new to give Congress . National Archives now investigating if USSS broke the law https://t.co/ROMnhjXSf5

— Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) July 19, 2022

F*CK YES: The National Archives has initiated an investigation into the potentially “unauthorized deletion” of Secret Service texts relating to January 6.

Let’s goooo!!

— Jo ? (@JoJoFromJerz) July 19, 2022

New: National Archives is requesting the US Secret Service to investigate itself over “erased” text messages from Jan. 5 and Jan. 6 2021 — and to let them know if any text messages have been improperly deleted within 30 calendar days.

— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) July 19, 2022

The National Archives just directed the Secret Service to probe the “the potential unauthorized deletion” of texts from around the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

This is getting interesting. https://t.co/S4JnHpodTu

— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) July 19, 2022