Homeland Security watchdog halted plan to recover Secret Service texts, records show

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Trump's Homeland Security Watchdog Scuttled Efforts To Recover Secret Service Texts: Report

A plan was in the works to collect phones and retrieve missing data, then suddenly dropped, sources told The Washington Post.

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Homeland Security watchdog halted plan to recover Secret Service texts, records show

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Records: Homeland Security watchdog halted plan to recover Secret Service texts

The latest revelation comes as Democratic lawmakers have accused the Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General office of failing to aggressively investigate the agency’s actions in response to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

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Homeland Security watchdog halted plan to recover Secret Service texts, records show

The Homeland Security watchdog came up with a plan to recover text messages exchanged around the time of the Jan. 6, 2021, siege on the Capitol, and then abandoned it.

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Watchdog Halted Plan to Recover Secret Service Texts

“The Department of Homeland Security’s chief watchdog scrapped its investigative team’s effort to collect agency phones to try to recover deleted Secret Service texts this year,” the Washington Post reports.“In early February, after learning that the Secret Service’s text messages had been erased as part of a migration to new devices, staff at Inspector General Joseph V. Cuffari’s office planned to contact all DHS agencies offering to have data …