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Salon
Salon
Politics
Bob Hennelly

The enemy within

More than two years after Jan. 6, the American people still don't know what the U.S. Secret Service knew and when it knew it about the violent insurrection that almost upended the peaceful transition of power following the 2020 election.

It's very much an open question if it obstructed Congress's inquiry into the Trump junta's machinations to stay in power after the disappearance of a trove of agency text messages from those hours when they were simultaneously protecting Pence and Trump — whose tweets incited the mob to attack the Capitol Police and to erect gallows at the Capitol.

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