{"id":1557401,"date":"2022-07-16T07:20:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T11:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1557401"},"modified":"2022-07-16T07:20:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T11:20:18","slug":"jan-6-committee-subpoenas-secret-service-over-text-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jan-6-committee-subpoenas-secret-service-over-text-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan. 6 Committee Subpoenas Secret Service Over Text Messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjan-6-committee-subpoenas-secret-service-over-text-messages%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1557401&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The House Jan. 6 Committee on July 15 issued a subpoena to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-secret-service\">Secret Service<\/a> after it was informed about some text messages that were erased under the agency.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-bennie-thompson\">Bennie Thompson<\/a> (D-Miss.), chair of the committee, said in a letter (<a href=\"https:\/\/january6th.house.gov\/sites\/democrats.january6th.house.gov\/files\/20220715%20J6%20Cmte%20Letter%20to%20USSS.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) that it is seeking \u201crelevant text messages, as well as any after\u00a0action reports that have been issued in any and all divisions of the [U.S. Secret Service] pertaining or relating in any way to the events of January 6, 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thompson\u2019s subpoena letter is\u00a0addressed to the director of the Secret Service, James Murray.<\/p>\n<p>The Jan. 6 subpoena comes after\u00a0the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS),\u00a0Joseph Cuffari,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/secret-service-deleted-jan-6-text-messages-inspector-general_4600592.html\">told\u00a0lawmakers<\/a> in\u00a0a letter on July 13\u00a0that \u201cmany\u201d text messages by the Secret Service sent on Jan. 5\u20136, 2021\u00a0\u201cwere erased as part of a device-replacement program.\u201d The DHS oversees the Secret Service.<\/p>\n<p>The messages were deleted after Cuffari\u2019s office, the DHS Office of the Inspector General (DHS OIG), requested records from the Secret Service as part of its probe into events surrounding the Jan. 6 breach of the Capitol, the July 13 letter said.<\/p>\n<p>It was unclear what messages the DHS OIG believed had been deleted or what evidence they might contain.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on July 14,\u00a0Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said that\u00a0the agency has been fully cooperative with the inspector general\u2019s probe. He said that the Secret Service \u201cbegan to reset its mobile phones to factory settings as part of a pre-planned, three-month system migration\u201d but in the process, \u201cdata resident on some phones was lost.\u201d\u00a0Guglielmi noted that the DHS OIG was notified about the data loss and \u201cthat\u00a0none of the texts it was seeking had been lost in the migration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thompson said in this subpoena letter on July 15 that the Jan. 6 Committee is aware of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Jan. 6 Committee on July 15 issued a subpoena to the Secret Service after it was informed about some text messages that were erased under the agency. Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), chair of the committee, said in a letter (pdf) that it is seeking \u201crelevant text messages, as well as any after\u00a0action reports [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1557401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1557401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1557401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1557401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1557401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}