The parliamentary commission investigating the storming of the Capitol in January 2021 announced on Friday night that it had ordered the Secret Service, responsible in particular for the protection of the president of the United States, to turn over to him on Tuesday the deleted text messages of their agents. . .
“The commission is looking for relevant text messages (…) related in some way to the events of January 6, 2021,” specifies a letter from Bennie Thompson, president of the Commission.
He informed Secret Service Director James Murray in a letter Friday that he had until Tuesday to turn in the missing text messages.
“Wiped as part of a device replacement program”
Joseph Cuffari, Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security, had indicated in a letter published Thursday to congressional leaders that he was having difficulty obtaining Secret Service records dating from Jan. 5 and 6, 2021. The Secret Service says so far that their agents rebooted the phones as part of a planned replacement program.
“The department has notified us that numerous United States Secret Service (USSS) messages, dated January 5 and 6, 2021, have been deleted as part of a device replacement program,” Joseph Cuffari wrote.
These messages could be crucial to investigations by the House of Representatives and the Department of Justice to determine whether the former Republican president and his close advisers encouraged the deadly assault on Capitol Hill, in an attempt to avoid certification of the victory of his Democratic opponent Joe Biden. on the November 2020 ballot. Secret Service agents were with Donald Trump that day and with Vice President Mike Pence, who had been hiding on Capitol Hill after the call by pro-Trump activists to hang him.
Commission members are ‘politicians’ and ‘thugs’ for Trump
A former White House employee testified June 29 before the House Investigation Committee that Donald Trump tried to force the Secret Service to bring him to Congress to join his supporters there.
The Republican billionaire, who is openly flirting with the idea of running for president in 2024, vehemently denounces the commission’s work, calling its members Tuesday “political” and “thugs.” They are part of it, qu’il contrôle encore d’une main de fer, a d’ores et déjà promis d’bury the conclusions of this commission if the conservateurs venaient à prendre le control de la Chambre des représentants lors des législatives de mi -mandated in November.
Source: BFM TV
