Top Democrats, Alleging Cover-Up, Seek Testimony on Secret Service Texts

Dear Inspector General Cuffari:
We are writing with grave new concerns over your lack of transparency and
independence, which appear to be jeopardizing the integrity of a crucial investigation run by
your office. According to recent reports, your office learned that the Secret Service was missing
critical text messages as part of your investigation of the January 6 attack against the U.S.
Capitol in May 2021—seven months earlier than previously revealed.1 The Committees have
obtained new evidence that your office may have secretly abandoned efforts to collect text
messages from the Secret Service more than a year ago. These documents also indicate that your
office may have taken steps to cover up the extent of missing records, raising further concerns
about your ability to independently and effectively perform your duties as Inspector General
(IG)

https://oversight.house.gov/sites/d...BM BGT to Cuffari-DHS re Document Request.pdf
 
BidenPresident said:
WASHINGTON — Two influential House Democrats called on Monday for two officials at the Department of Homeland Security’s independent watchdog to testify to Congress about the agency’s handling of missing Secret Service text messages from the day of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, accusing their office of engaging in a cover-up.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/01/us/politics/jan-6-secret-service-texts.html
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Which episode of the dog and pony show is this?
 
House panels: DHS officials interfered in effort to get lost Secret Service texts

Top officials at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) inspector general’s office interfered with efforts to recover erased Secret Service texts from the time of the US Capitol attack and attempted to cover up their actions, two House committees said in a letter on Monday.

Taken together, the new revelations appear to show that the chief watchdog for the Secret Service and the DHS took deliberate steps to stop the retrieval of texts it knew were missing, and then sought to hide the fact that it had decided not to pursue that evidence.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...e-texts-jan-6-dhs-interfered-house-committees
 
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