The committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol assault has subpoenaed the U.S. Secret Service to obtain text messages from around the time of the attack.
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol assault has subpoenaed the U.S. Secret Service to obtain text messages from around the time of the attack, the committee said Friday night.told lawmakers
In a letter to the Secret Service, Jan. 6 select committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson said the committee has spent months trying to obtain documents from segments of the Department of Homeland Security pertaining to the events of January 5-7. "Accordingly, the Select Committee seeks the relevant text messages, as well as any after action reports that have been issued in any and all divisions of the USSS pertaining or relating in any way to the events of January 6, 2021," the letter said. Thompson's letter comes hours after Cuffarimembers of the Jan. 6 committee on the text message erasures. Thompson told reporters after the briefing that members"wanted to get the IGs perspective on what he thought was going on.
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