The Secret Service deleted text messages after they were requested as part of an inquiry into the attack on the U.S. Capitol last year. That’s according to a letter that was originally sent by a government watchdog to homeland security committees in the House and Senate.
The Secret Service insists it did not delete the messages between Jan. 5 and Jan. 6 in a malicious way but that there were lost in what it described as a “device-replacement program.”
Here & Now‘s Scott Tong talks with The Washington Post’s political investigative reporter, Carol Leonnig about the significance of the letter which was first reported by The Intercept.
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