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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Johanna Chisholm

Jan 6 panel member Raskin skeptical of Secret Service’s text claims: ‘I don’t buy that for one minute’

The Late Show

January 6 committee member Jamie Raskin said he does not buy for “one minute” the counterargument being pushed by the US Secret Service about why all of the federal agency’s text messages from 5 and 6 January 2021 are missing.

While being interviewed by host Stephen Colbert on The Late Show on Monday night, the three-term congressman from Maryland, one of the Democratic panel members on the House select committee investigating the violent Capitol insurrection, was asked about whether he believed the Secret Service’s explanation for only being able to produce one text message in response to a subpoena from the committee that asked for all communications from the day before and the day of the riot.

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