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A government watchdog that oversees the secret service. importantly, the letter says those text messages were erased after, after they were requested as part of an evaluation of what happened on january 6th being conducted by that government watchdog. the letter notes that the secret service is claiming that the messages were erased as part of a device replacement program. it is important to note that the messages were erased only after they had been requested by the inspector general. and the inspector general also points out in this letter that her office has been repeatedly rebuffed while t...

Watchdog report claims the secret service erased pivotal information from their agents' phones after january 6th. >> the secret service claims any lost data was due to a planned tech migration and those texts that investigators wanted were not among those that disappeared. let's bring in our law enforcement correspondent whitney wild with more. good morning, whitney. >> reporter: good morning to you. jim and poppy, the summary of this story is this. the department of homeland security inspector general wrote a letter to congressional oversight committees this week alleging that many secret ser...

Consequences? >> this is a new twist in what the house has or hasn't been able to obtain. and this story really is unfolding we were just learning about it the first time yesterday. cnn reporters learned yesterday that the watchdog agency for the department of homeland security, inspector general, was trying to get access to text messages from secret service phones. but those text messages were erased after that request came in and dhs, which is the department where the secret service sits, they said that erasing happened in a device replacement program as you mentioned and the secret service ...

>> ali, is there reaction from the january 6th committee on this? >> do you want to get to the bottom of these accounts? the january 6th committee. they are very interested in the text messages and are concerned about the fact they are lost for whatever reason. the secret service and as we mentioned, this is a result of changing over systems and of course the inspector general himself using the word deleted, which uses the intention of getting rid of those text messages. here is how some of the committee members are reacting. listen. >> it is obviously an alarming thing to learn that there wer...

Erased as part of a device replacement program. the secret service erased those messages after oig requested electronic communications from them as part of your evaluation of events at the capitol on january 6th. the secret service is responding and saying dhs/oig requested electronic communications for the first time on february 26th, 2021, after the migration was well under way. the secret service notified of the loss of certain phones' data but confirmed to oig that none of the texts it was seeking had been lost in the migration. really the secret service is adding that they've been coopera...