Jan. 6: Key Services deleted texts asked for by investigators, watchdog report says

The Key Company deleted textual content messages from Jan. 5 and Jan 6, 2021, that had been asked for by officials investigating the breach of the U.S. Capitol, the Section of Homeland Security inspector general's office environment reported in a report this week.  

Inspector Typical Joseph Cuffari said in a letter to the Congressional committees investigating the Jan. 6 riot that "many" messages ended up "erased as portion of a gadget-alternative plan" after his workplace had asked for electronic communications from the Key Assistance through their "analysis of events at the Capitol on Jan. 6."

"It is relating to, obviously," Rep. Bennie Thompson, House Jan. 6 committee chairman and House Homeland Safety Committee chairman, instructed Axios Thursday. "If there is certainly a way we can reconstruct the texts or what have you, we will."

Cuffari also wrote that the requested doc selection was delayed for weeks mainly because the Department of Homeland Protection insisted that all records needed a lawful critique, building "confusion in excess of whether or not all records had been produced."

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FILE - A U.S. Mystery Assistance officer usually takes a place in the avenue as President Donald Trump's motorcade arrives at the White House immediately after golfing at his Trump Countrywide Golf Club in Sterling, Va., in Washington, Nov. 8, 2020, a day immediately after was defeated by President-elect Joe Biden. A federal government watchdog has uncovered that Key Services brokers deleted textual content messages sent and been given close to the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol just after an inspector common requested them as aspect of the investigation into the insurrection. (G3 Box News Image/J. Scott Applewhite)

The Mystery Provider denied the inspector general’s declare, indicating some records had been missing during a system migration that occurred in advance of the ask for but all the asked for data had been sent. 

A U.S. Top secret Service Uniformed Division law enforcement vehicle is parked in front of the White House in Washington, April 21, 2022.  (Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency by way of Getty Illustrations or photos)

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"The insinuation that the Solution Assistance maliciously deleted text messages pursuing a ask for is untrue," Key Company spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi said.

Committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) leaves for a crack in the course of the seventh listening to held by the Choose Committee to Examine the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol on July 12, 2022 in the Cannon House Business Making in Washington, D.C.  (Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty Pictures)

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He claimed the machine migration begun in January properly just before the OIG requested the information in late February and none of the texts getting sought "experienced been lost in the migration."

Reuters contributed to this report.