The agency gives US intelligence until Tuesday to deliver the January 5 and 6, 2021 text messages, the keys to determining Trump’s involvement in the attack
The head of the Jan. 6 committee, Bennie Thompson, who is investigating the attack on the United States Capitol in the House of Representatives, has sent a letter to Secret Service director James Murray informing him of a subpoena forcing this agency to deliver missing text messages from the days surrounding the riots on Tuesday. The communications could be key to determining Donald Trump’s involvement in what happened, as intelligence officials were with the former president and Vice President Mike Pence on the day of the attack. Congress hid after the mob asked for him to be hanged
“The Select Committee is seeking the relevant text messages and all post-action reports issued in all branches of the USSS (United States Secret Service) pertaining to or in any way related to the events of January 6. 2021″, the letter, which was published on the commission’s website late Friday (early Saturday morning in Spain).
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General Joseph Cuffari told Congress earlier this week that his office was having trouble getting text messages from the Secret Service as of Jan. 5-6, 2021. had already been criticized for failing to adequately anticipate the threat of violent action from armed Trump supporters.
In addition, on June 29, a former White House aide told the January 6, 2021 House investigation that Trump had tried to force the Secret Service to take him to Capitol Hill to join his supporters.
According to intelligence spokesman Anthony Guglielmi, the agents’ phones were wiped as part of a planned replacement program that began before the DHS office of inspector general requested the information six weeks after the uprising.
Source: La Verdad
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