oops, we did it again

First it was the Secret Service.

Then the Department of Homeland Security.

And now even high-level Pentagon officials within the Trump administration.

• All of these entities — which, let’s remember, are funded by our tax dollars — had a significant role in the events on and leading up to the January 6 insurrection.

• And each of them has been exposed for deleting text messages that could advance our understanding of the breadth and depth of Trump’s attempt to remain in power illegally.

• In some cases, phones may even have been wiped *after* texts were requested by people investigating the attempted coup.

Each of these agencies says the destruction of text messages related to January 6 was just part of normal IT procedures.

Really?

All this potential evidence about one of the most severe threats our democracy has ever faced just happened to vanish forever as part of some routine process?

Count me skeptical.

Tell the Department of Justice to keep up its efforts and get to the bottom of all these missing texts from military and law enforcement related to January 6.

Add your name now.

Thanks for taking action.

For democracy,

- Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen
 
 

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