Secret Service provided a single text exchange to IG after request for many records

By Jamie Gangel, CNN

The Secret Service was only able to provide a single text exchange to the DHS inspector general who had requested a month’s worth of records for 24 Secret Service personnel, according to a letter to the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, and obtained by CNN.

The revelation provides insight into the concern raised in a recent letter to Congress by the inspector general, who accused the agency of not retaining records needed for the January 6 investigation.

The inspector general, Joseph Cuffari, having already received an initial batch of documents including “hundreds of thousands of disclosures of agency documents, policies, radio communications, emails, briefings and interviews,” requested text messages sent and received by 24 Secret Service personnel between December 7, 2020 and January 8, 2021, according to the letter. The letter does not identify the 24 personnel.

“The Secret Service submitted the responsive records it identified, namely, a text message conversation from former US Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund to former Secret Service Uniformed Division Chief Thomas Sullivan requesting assistance on January 6, 2021, and advised the agency did not have any further records responsive to the DHS OIG’s request for text messages,” according to the letter from Assistant Director Ronald Rowe to the January 6 committee.

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