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Top House Democrats want an investigation into Homeland Security’s inspector general after he said he regularly deletes texts from his government-issued phone.

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Joseph V. Cuffarti has filed a lawsuit against the leaders of an ongoing probe into the agency's top watchdog's alleged role in "missing Secret Service text messages from the January 6" insurrection, The Washington Post reports.The two-year investiga...

This was in response to the inspector general’s annual report on management and performance challenges at the department.

Top congressional Democrats on Tuesday accused the Department of Homeland Security’s Trump-appointed inspector general of stonewalling their efforts at accountability, and revealed a letter, sent last week, in which he refused to cooperate with their demands.

The Homeland Security watchdog has been under fire for its handling of the matter.

The service acknowledges that some texts of 24 of its employees from Jan. 5 and 6, 2021 were erased despite federal laws requiring they be kept, but says it…

The deletion of text messages by the leadership of the Department of Homeland Security underscores the complicity of all the major police and intelligence agencies in Trump’s efforts to overthrow the government.

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.

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.

Key Democratic leaders don't trust DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari to investigate the Secret Service, and their concerns are hardly baseless.