The House committee investigating the assault on the U.S. Capitol has subpoenaed records from the Secret Service after being told by a government inspector general that the agency wasn’t cooperating with the inquiry.
Bennie Thompson, the committee’s chairman, said in a statement on Friday night that the subpoena was issued after the panel heard that Secret Service text messages from Jan. 6, 2021, when the attack occurred, and the next before had been erased.
In the statement and in a separate letter to Secret Service Director James Murray, Thompson wrote that the committee had been told that data on some phones had been lost because of an agency "device replacement program.” He added, however, that "according to the USSS statement, ‘none of the texts it (the DHS Office of Inspector General) was seeking had been lost in the migration.’”