WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the assault on the US Capitol has subpoenaed records from the Secret Service after being told by a government inspector general that the agency wasn’t cooperating with the inquiry.
Bennie Thompson, the committee’s chairman, said in a statement on Friday night that the subpoena was issued after the panel heard that Secret Service text messages from Jan. 6, 2021, when the attack occurred, and the day before had been erased.
The Secret Service will cooperate “by responding swiftly to the committee’s subpoena,” agency spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said Saturday in a statement.
