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Its official, Congressional leaders are calling the very Secret Service deletion of communications relating to the Insurrection a "Cover-up". In a letter to Homeland Security's IG, Joseph V, Cuffari, the chair of the House oversight committee said she had grave concerns about the lack of transparency concerning the deletion of communications in a "routine migration" of data to new devices. She was joined by the chair of the Select Committee investigating the January 6th attempted coup.
Cuffari is a Trump appointee.
The letter also said the IG,“secretly abandoned efforts to collect text messages from the Secret Service more than a year ago.” Cuffari knew in May 2021 that the Service had deleted messages, seven months earlier than previously known, and more than a year before he told the January 6th Committee Amid the storm of congressional interest in the matter and a criminal investigation launched by Cuffari's office, the agency has stopped trying to recover the messages that were deleted. The legislators have asked the independent Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency to remove Cuffari from his probe into the Secret Service's handling of records required to be preserved under the Federal Records Act, and deleted despite legitimate requests for the records from Congress and others.