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Amid "hang Mike Pence" chants, Secret Service feared vice president would lose ability to leave the Capitol

An anonymous security official said Pence's security detail "started to fear for their own lives."

Axios

DHS watchdog launches criminal investigation into deleted Secret Service texts

The messages may have contained evidence about key events related to the Capitol insurrection.

Axios

Trump opted against calling off his loyalists during Jan. 6 Capitol riot, former aides tell select panel - Roll Call

Members of Vice President Mike Pence's Secret Service detail feared for their lives during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, the select committe was told.

Roll Call

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Secret Service’s deletion of Jan 6 texts is under ‘criminal investigation’, DHS reveals

Agency was only able to hand over one text message from 24 personnel

The Independent UK

DHS watchdog takes over inquiry into lost secret service texts from Capitol riot

The Homeland Security Department’s watchdog has opened an investigation into the loss of Secret Service text messages from the days surrounding the attack on the U.S. Capitol last year.

Tribune News Service

Trump watchdog knew agents deleted texts

DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari, a former Republican advisor, previously quashed Secret Service probes

Salon

January 6 hearings return to recount 187 minutes of chaos at the Capitol

Capitol attack committee provides detailed account of insurrection and confirms this will not be final hearing

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Secret Service tells House it’s still seeking lost Jan. 6 texts

Tribune News Service

Jan. 6 committee to tell story of ‘187 minutes’ between former President Trump’s remarks

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump’s actions — and inaction — during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol will take center stage at Thursday’s prime-time hearing, as the committee investigating the assault wraps up more than a month of public airing of its findings.

Tribune News Service

Secret Service tells House it’s still seeking lost Jan. 6 texts

WASHINGTON — The Secret Service has failed so far to provide Congress with any substantial new agency text messages from Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, 2021, but assures the House committee investigating last year’s Capitol attack it will continue searching for the lost material.

Tribune News Service

Stephen Colbert on extreme heatwaves: ‘Unfortunately, hell came to us’

Late-night hosts discuss record-setting temperatures in the UK, the Secret Service’s deleted January 6 texts and Bannon’s contempt of Congress trial

The Guardian - US

Jan. 6 committee to tell story of '187 minutes' between former President Trump's remarks - Roll Call

Former President Donald Trump’s actions — and inaction — during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol will take center stage Thursday night.

Roll Call

Secret Service handed over a single text exchange amid uproar over deleted Jan 6 evidence

‘The Secret Service adamantly denied that they were either stonewalling ... or that the text messages were lost’, Florida Democrat says

The Independent UK

First Thing: Biden under pressure to declare US climate emergency

President could bypass political gridlock after Manchin torpedos bill. Plus, the summer of lost luggage

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Salon

Lost Jan. 6 texts: We need answers

Secret Service denies it "maliciously" deleted Jan. 6 texts. But they're gone, and our republic needs them

The Guardian - US

Secret Service turned over just one text message to January 6 panel, sources say

House committee wants all communications from day before and day of Capitol attack but agency indicates such messages are lost

Tribune News Service

National Archives demands report on lost Secret Service texts

The keeper of federal records asked the Secret Service to determine whether any text messages by agents around the time of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol were improperly deleted.

The Guardian - US

Primetime January 6 hearing to go ahead despite chairman’s positive Covid test

Bennie Thompson to miss hearing as ex-Trump aides Matthew Pottinger and Sarah Matthews expected to give evidence

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The Independent UK

National Archives asks Secret Service to probe deleted texts

The National Archives has requested a probe of “the potential unauthorized deletion” of text messages the Secret Service sent and received around the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021

The Guardian - US

Secret Service told to begin an inquiry into erased January 6 text messages

The National Archives asked the agency to report in a month on whether messages were ‘improperly deleted’

WEKU

The National Archives is looking into reports that the Secret Service deleted texts

Reports that the Secret Service deleted text messages related to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection have caught the attention of the chief records officer at the National Archives.

The Independent UK

National Archives instructs US Secret Service to investigate ‘unauthorized deletion’ of Jan 6 texts

Lawmakers have blamed agency for releasing conflicting statements about texts from Jan 6

WEKU

14 key moments from the Jan. 6 committee hearings — so far

Here are some of the standout moments made so far in the Jan. 6 committee hearings, as the committee laid out its case that former President Trump is responsible for the insurrection.

Reason

Brickbat: The Ugly American

A U.S. Secret Service agent was sent home early from Israel after being detained by police in Jerusalem after a woman claimed he assaulted her. The agent and a colleague were reportedly drinking at a bar and became loud and rowdy. The woman claimed she told them they were behaving…

The Guardian - US

January 6 committee to receive deleted Secret Service texts, Democrat says

Agency’s account about how text messages from day before and day of the Capitol attack were erased has shifted several times

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