
Mobile phones belonging to top Defence Department officials, including the then-acting aecretary of defence and senior US army officials, had text messages sent and recieved around the January 6 attack on the Capitol “wiped” from them, according to court documents.
According to a report filed with the US District Court for the District of Columbia as part of a Freedom of Information Act Lawsuit over January 6 records, the Pentagon wiped phones belonging to former Trump administration officials such as ex-acting defence secretary Chris Miller, ex-army secretary Ryan McCarthy, and Mr Miller’s former chief of staff, Kashyap Patel, after they turned them in upon their resignations on 20 January.