Secret Service turned over just one text after records request: report

The Secret Service provided only one text exchange to the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general for a month’s worth of records requests for 24 Secret Service personnel, CNN reported on Wednesday. 

CNN obtained a letter from the Secret Service to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, revealing that Inspector General Joseph Cuffari requested in June 2021 that the Secret Service provide text messages for two dozen personnel from Dec. 8, 2020, to Jan. 8, 2021. 

The letter’s revelation comes in the aftermath of Cuffari informing the committee that the Secret Service had deleted text messages from Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, 2021, as “part of a device-replacement program” after the OIG had requested electronic communications records. 

The committee subpoenaed the Secret Service for texts, but the agency was not able to provide the committee with texts from those two days, Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.), a committee member, told MSNBC. It did provide other records.