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A member of the House selection committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress says the Secret Service has contradicted itself in statements it made publicly and to its colleagues about whether text messages from the day of the attack are still accessible.
The controversy arose in recent days after the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security (OIG) wrote to the panel stating that the agency had not only caused delays in handing over materials related to Jan. 6, but apparently some relevant text messages after being notified of the need to hand them over to the OIG office.
Mr Kinzinger said in an interview with CBS’s on Sunday: Face the nation that in one case, the agency stated that they had lost all or part of the texts requested by lawmakers on the panel, while at another, they stated that they had turned over all “relevant” messages to the OIG.
It is not yet clear how many messages have been transferred to the OIG. The select committee has set Tuesday as a deadline for the subpoena of text messages and other telephone data from the secret service.
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