Respond to a subpoena? U.S. Secret Service provides investigative agencies with text messages during Congressional riots

　　China News Service, July 21. According to a Reuters report on the 20th, the US Secret Service said in a letter released on the 20th local time that the agency had transferred a text message conversation during the riots at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. handed over to the House select committee investigating the incident and is working to find out if other text messages were lost.

On January 6, 2021, local time, the joint meeting of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives to confirm the results of the Electoral College vote was interrupted when supporters of then-President Trump broke into the Capitol and caused large-scale riots. The scene was extremely chaotic.

The picture shows Trump supporters clashing with Capitol police.

　　The U.S. Secret Service reportedly said the confirmation of conversations between Capitol Police and the Secret Service was at the request of the Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General, who asked to investigate 24 Secret Service members for their actions between December 7, 2020 and January 8, 2021 Text messages sent or received between days.

　　The U.S. Secret Service also said in the letter, "The Secret Service is further investigating whether the text messages sent or received by the 24 members were lost, and how to retrieve them if they were lost."

　　House select committee leaders Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney said in a joint statement on the 20th that the U.S. Secret Service has begun providing some records in response to the subpoena.

　　The House select committee is also investigating additional records related to the riots, the statement said, adding that the U.S. Secret Service's apparent failure to comply with federal records retention rules may violate federal law.

　　In addition, the report quoted an anonymous source as saying that the House select committee received only one related text message.

　　Earlier, according to a CNN report on the 14th, according to a letter from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Inspector General to a House select committee, shortly after oversight officials asked to investigate the electronic records of the U.S. Secret Service during the Capitol riots, The U.S. Secret Service deleted text messages from January 5-6, 2021.

　　The next day, House Select Committee Chairman Thompson said in a press release that the House Select Committee had issued a subpoena to the U.S. Secret Service.