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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
John Bowden

National Archives instructs US Secret Service to investigate ‘unauthorized deletion’ of Jan 6 texts

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The National Archives is getting involved in the growing scandal enveloping the US Secret Service over whether agents improperly deleted text messages sent during the January 6 attack after being ordered to preserve them.

The Archives issued a statement on Tuesday instructing the Secret Service to investigate and determine indeed whether text messages had been deleted by the agency as part of a supposed software overhaul after the agency had been explicitly instructed by the Department of Homeland Security’s watchdog office, the Office of the Inspector General, to preserve them.

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