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Justice department urged to investigate deletion of January 6 texts by Pentagon

Merrick Garland, the US attorney general, on Tuesday. The DoJ is investigating Trump’s attempt to overturn his election defeat.
Merrick Garland, the US attorney general, on Tuesday. The DoJ is investigating Trump’s attempt to overturn his election defeat. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

The US attorney general, Merrick Garland, has been asked to investigate yet another deletion of text messages and other communications by senior officials on 6 January 2021, this time by the Pentagon.

American Oversight, a non-partisan watchdog group, revealed the shock deletion on Tuesday, having discovered it through freedom of information requests to the Department of Defense.

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