Subject: Somebody at the Secret Service has some explaining to do.

“This statement obviously raises two questions: (1) How did the USSS know whether texts were pertinent to the inquiry unless the agency reviewed them prior to erasing them? (2) If the agency had the capacity to review them, why not just save everything for purposes of the IG inquiry, and then erase once the IG said he no longer needed them (at least as long as erasing did not violate any record-keeping requirements under federal law)?”

Secret Service Erases Message Data Pertinent to January 6