The House Jan. 6 Committee has subpoenaed the Secret Service following the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General’s office reporting that the agency deleted texts from Jan. 5 and 6, 2021.
Committee Chairman Bennie G. Thompson, Mississippi Democrat, is demanding that the Secret Service hand over “relevant text messages, as well as any after action reports that have been issued in any and all divisions of the USSS pertaining or relating in any way to the events of January 6, 2021.”
The escalation follows the revelation that the Secret Service erased texts critical to understanding the agency’s response to the Capitol riot after the DHS Inspector General requested the agency hand them over.