China News Service, August 3. According to CNN and the "Capitol Hill" report on the 2nd, when former US President Trump left office, the US Department of Defense (DOD) removed some senior officials in 2021. Text messages recorded during the riots at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2009.
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 because former President Trump supporters broke into the Capitol and caused large-scale riots. The scene was extremely chaotic.
The picture shows Trump supporters protesting in the Capitol.
Days after the riots at the Capitol, a U.S. watchdog filed a petition to release communications records between former acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller and former Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, according to reports.
But the agency was later told the records were not kept.
"The Department of Defense and the Army indicated to plaintiffs that employees handed over government-distributed cellphones when they left, and the contents of the cellphones were subsequently wiped," the court filing said. , the text message is not saved, so it cannot be searched."
Miller and McCarthy, both considered key witnesses in the Capitol riots, have not commented on the matter so far.
CNN said there was no evidence they deleted the communication records themselves.
The watchdog is now calling on the Justice Department to conduct an "interagency investigation" into the "loss" of those communications records.
Separately, a letter from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Inspector General to the House Select Committee investigating the Capitol riots showed that shortly after oversight officials asked to investigate the Secret Service’s electronic communications records during the Capitol riots, the U.S. Secret Service The bureau also deleted text messages from January 5-6, 2021.