The Defense Department reportedly erased data from the phones of top departing agency and Army officials at the end of the Trump administration, deleting texts from potential witnesses to events related to the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot.
The effort is being reported by CNN, based on court filings and following questions about the Secret Service having deleted texts and other digital messages from Jan. 5-6, 2021 in a pre-planned data-transfer project.
- The Defense Department reportedly erased data from the phones of
top departing agency and Army officials at the end of the Trump
administration, deleting texts from potential witnesses to events
related to the Jan.
- CNN reports the acknowledgment that the
phones from the Pentagon officials had been wiped clean of such data was
first revealed in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by watchdog
group American Oversight against the department and the Army.
- 6, 2021, riot from such then-high-ranking officials as former acting
Secretary of Defense Chris Miller, former chief of staff Kash Patel and
former Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy.
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/text-messages-pentagon-officials-jan-6-removed-phones-report
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