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Investigation. we can't talk about it. however, according to an internal email by government oversight and shared with cnn, he is defending himself to employees calling this an on slot of meritless criticism. house democrats, though, want to know more. they're asking for communications and transcribed interviews with top officials at that office. house oversight chairwoman car caroline maloney and bennie thompson wrote to the inspector general monday and they are leveling very serious accusations saying frankly, they're concerned about a coverup by the i.g.'s office as they investigated the mi...

Doesn't take a cyberexpert to understand that having your employees themselves do the transition, that is upload all of the documents and things from your texts that reportedly was done, is not a safe and effective way of protecting these kinds of documents. as you indicated, this inspector general who was also appointed by donald trump sat on this and declined even after these investigations started to even inspect the phones. so there's a lot to unpack here and it's very, very -- potentially very, very serious. >> alex, i had senator dick durbin on earlier and i asked if the i.g. was acting ...

And yet they never alerted the committee, hey, look, we accidentally deleted them. probably best to get out in front of it. instead it appears that it was covered up until finally the i.g. tells us so, you know, i don't know if it's trying to cover up gross mismanagement or if there's something nor more t. there's somebody in the secret service that knows the answer to that. >> and "the washington post" reported that the text messages from former acting homeland security secretary chad wolf and acting deputy secretary ken cuccinelli are also missing for this key period. sources telling cnn bot...

Erased as part of a device replacement program. the u.s. secret service erased those text messages after oig requested records of electronic communications. but the secret service quickly shot back, saying the loss of text data was part of routine phone replacement. the insinuation that the secret service maliciously deleted text messages following a request is false. adding that the inspector general requested electronic communications for the first time on february 26th, 2021, after the migration was well under way. the secret service notified dhs oig of the loss of certain phones' data but ...

They do a data migration updating the devices without backing up the data, without saving the data. and let me say this, secret service knows it has to do this. they do this all the time they save the data because everyone knows secret service from their duty of protecting the president, but lesser known, the secret service also routinely does criminal investigations. when i was a federal prosecutor i did all sorts of fraud cases with really talented secret service agents, and in a criminal case, you absolutely have to save all those communications, often you have to turn them over to the defe...