Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington argues that the texts were illegally deleted and that the agencies didn’t do enough to attempt to retrieve them.
about the actions of officials in coordinating a response to the far-right attack.
These texts could be crucial to the government’s investigation into the attack, potentially containing details about whether or not key Trump administration officials prepared for the violence that day and decisions made in response to the Capitol breach. Communications with the far right Oath Keepers could also have been included in the texts, CREW writes in its lawsuit.
The news that there were missing records related to the attack within these agencies was uncovered by investigative journalists this summer. Texts had been deleted across several agencies, reporters have found, including the Secret Service, DHS, the Army and the. Further, they were deleted after federal investigators and Freedom of Information Act filers had requested to see the texts, raising questions not only about what was in the texts, but also why they were deleted.
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