Senior leadership at the Secret Service confiscated the cellphones of 24 agents involved in the agency’s response to Jan. 6 and handed them over to the Dept. of Homeland Security’s Inspector General, according to two sources with knowledge of the action.
John Minchillo / AP fileSenior leadership at the Secret Service confiscated the cellphones of 24 agents involved in the agency’s response to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol and handed them over to the Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General, according to two sources with knowledge of the action.
It is unclear what, if any, information the Office of Inspector General has been able to obtain from the cellphones.The revelation that Cuffari’s office has had access to the phones since late July or August raises new questions about the progress of his criminal investigation into the missing text messages and what, if anything, the public may be able to learn about communications between agents on Jan. 6, 2021.
But given that the phones belong to the agency, the source explained, the agents had little say in the matter.from agents’ cellphones that it sought as part of its investigation into the Secret Service response to the insurrection. The Secret Service has said the texts were lost as part of a previously planned systems upgrade that essentially restored the phones to factory settings.
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