A text from former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson to Assistant Director of the United States Secret Service Anthony Ornato appears above members of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S.
Capitol during the seventh WASHINGTON - Secret Service agents deleted text messages sent and received around the Jan.
6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol even after an inspector general requested them as part of an investigation into the insurrection, the government watchdog has found.The Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General, in a letter obtained by The Associated Press, said the messages between Jan.
5 and Jan. 6, 2021, were erased "as part of a device-replacement program." The erasure came after the watchdog office requested records of electronic communications between the agents as part of its probe into events surrounding the Jan.