The Secret Service erased text messages from January 5 and January 6, 2021, according to a letter sent to the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack from a Homeland Security watchdog. “First, the Department notified us that many US Secret Service text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021, were erased as part of a device-replacement program. The USSS erased those text messages after OIG requested records of electronic communications from the USSS, as part of our evaluation of events at the Capitol on January 6,” wrote Homeland Security Inspector Gen. Joseph Cuffari in the letter…
