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A top Homeland Security official under the Trump administration has already spoken to the Jan. 6 committee in Congress, long before his name surfaced in connection with the missing Secret Service messages that investigators are looking for.
Former Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf worked with the commission several months ago, CNN reports.
Mr. Wolf was in the Trump administration during and after Jan. 6, and investigators may be interested in whether Mr. Wolf discussed the 25th Amendment with other cabinet-level leaders to remove Mr. Trump from office.
That was probably all before the January 6 commission learned that numerous messages were missing from the government apparatus of Mr. Wolf, his deputy Ken Cuccinelli, as well as top Secret Service agents, relating to a pivotal period surrounding the January 6 riots in the United States Capitol.
“It is extremely disturbing that the issue of deleted text messages related to the January 6 attack on the Capitol is not limited to the Secret Service, but also involving Chad Wolf and Ken Cuccinelli, who ran DHS at the time,” Jan. 6 committee chairperson Bennie Thompson said in a statement.
Mr Wolf has said that he has done nothing wrong with regard to the handling of his correspondence records.
“I complied with all data retention laws and returned all my equipment to the department fully charged,” he said wrote on Twitter on Thursday. “Dot. DHS has all my texts, emails, phone logs, schedules, etc. Any issues with missing data should be addressed to DHS.
DHS informed its internal watchdog in February that the messages were lost in a “reset” of government devices after the men left office.
The communication could contain evidence that further illustrates how Donald Trump pressured DHS to try to substantiate its false election claims, and could shed light on the more explosive claims from the January 6 hearings so far, such as a story about Donald Trump attacking a Secret Service agent who wouldn’t take him to supporters marching on the Capitol.
The questions surrounding the communications mirror those of the Secret Service, which informed Congress in July that numerous agents’ texts had been removed, despite multiple requests from commission investigators for access.
The Secret Service has also denied doing anything, saying it began migrating the data in January 2021, a month before the DHS Office of the Inspector General requested the communications.
“The insinuation that the Secret Service maliciously deleted text messages after a request is false,” said a spokesperson The independent earlier this month. “In fact, the Secret Service has been fully cooperating with the OIG in every way – be it interviews, documents, emails or texts.”