Tag: Service
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Top Democrats, Alleging Cover-Up, Seek Testimony on Secret Service Texts
WASHINGTON — Two influential House Democrats called on Monday for two officials at the Department of Homeland Security’s independent watchdog to testify to Congress about the agency’s handling of missing Secret Service text messages from the day of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, accusing their office of engaging in a cover-up. In a…
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Watchdog Informs Secret Service of Criminal Inquiry Into Missing Texts
WASHINGTON — The inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security directed the Secret Service to halt its internal search for purged texts sent by agents around the time of Jan. 6 so that it does not “interfere with an ongoing criminal investigation,” according to a letter reviewed by The New York Times. “To ensure…