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House Select Committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and House Oversight Chair Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., wrote to the DHS Inspector General accusing his office of obstructing congressional investigations into missing and deleted texts from the U.S. Secret Service in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Two House committee chairs are accusing Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Joe Cuffari of stonewalling Congress and potentially violating the law by not turning over documents and communications around the deletion of Secret Service texts in the days following the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.<\/p>\n

In an Aug. 16 letter<\/a> addressed to Cuffari, House Oversight and Governmental Reform Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., and House Homeland Security Committee Chair Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said they\u2019ve reached out three times in an effort to obtain further documentation and interviews with staff relating to DHS IG\u2019s investigation of missing or deleted Secret Service texts and another detailing allegations of domestic abuse and sexual harassment by employees of USSS, Customs and Border Protection and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n

In both cases, the committee leaders said they are investigating allegations that Cuffari sought to censor those reports while blocking relevant staffers from speaking with Congress. They characterized Cuffari\u2019s refusals as a violation of the Inspector General Act which requires IGs to immediately notify the head of an agency when they become \u201caware of particularly serious or flagrant problems, abuses, or deficiencies,\u201d who in turn must notify Congress within seven days. They threatened unspecified consequences if their demands aren’t met.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour obstruction of the Committees\u2019 investigations is unacceptable, and your justifications for this noncompliance appear to reflect a fundamental misunderstanding of Congress\u2019s authority and your duties as an Inspector General,\u201d Maloney and Thompson wrote. \u201cIf you continue to refuse to comply with our requests, we will have no choice but to consider alternate measures to ensure your compliance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Days after thousands of supporters of then-President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol, brawled with police and attempted to disrupt the certification of incoming President Joe Biden, at least four congressional committees wrote<\/a> to the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies to instruct them to preserve records related to the riot. Less than two weeks later on Jan. 27, the Secret Service executed<\/a> a phone and data migration plan that would wipe all data on existing phones and put the onus for backing up and preserving those records on individual employees.<\/p>\n

In July 2022, Cuffari notified Congress that certain text messages from Secret Service personnel over that period of time had been erased. Subsequent reporting<\/a> by the Washington Post and the Project on Government Oversight revealed that Cuffari\u2019s office knew about the deleted texts for more than a year but had failed to notify Congress. The committees also obtained a July 2021 email<\/a> from DHS Deputy Inspector General Thomas Kait indicating that they were no longer interested in pursuing the records, telling a DHS representative that they are \u201cno longer request[ing] phone records and text messages from USSS relating to the events on January 6.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thompson and Maloney said these and other public reports strongly indicate a potential cover up on the part of DHS and the IG, and are seeking additional records that include \u201cdrafts, working papers, or communications\u201d regarding the reports and any attempts by DHS IG to censor or remove relevant portions.<\/p>\n

In an Aug. 8 letter from DHS IG released by the committee, Cuffari claims to have to reported \u201cvarious access issues\u201d with DHS component agencies through a 2021 semiannual report<\/a> to Congress. That report claims unnamed DHS agencies \u201csignificantly delayed OIG\u2019s access to Department records, thereby impeding the progress of OIG\u2019s review of the January 6 events at the Capitol\u201d but does not mention the Secret Service or the erasure of text messages.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the Project on Government Oversight released a draft<\/a> of an April 1 alert developed by DHS IG to inform Congress about the missing texts. It specifically names requirements in the Inspector General Act to report obstruction and reveals that Secret Service agents were unresponsive to some records requests related to the deleted texts, cited protocols not backed up in U.S. law for the delays and declined to identify reviewers processing the records requests. The alert, drafted on April 1, 2022, was never sent.<\/p>\n

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An April 1, 2022, DHS IG alert to Congress drafted \u2014 but never sent \u2014 that would have notified Congress about efforts by U.S. Secret Service to obstruct investigation into missing and deleted texts related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. (Source<\/a>: the Project on Government Oversight)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

In his Aug. 8 letter, Cuffari declined to comply with the additional document and interview requests, citing an unspecified, ongoing criminal investigation.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo protect the integrity of our work and preserve our independence, we do not share information about ongoing matters, like the information you requested in your letters,\u201d Cuffari wrote. \u201cSimilarly, we do not authorize our staff to sit for transcribed interviews with your committee about these ongoing matters.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Thompson and Maloney say U.S. law clearly gives Congress the right to conduct its own independent investigation and seek records, and testimony from witnesses. An earlier notification to Congress would have \u201cprovided Congress with a detailed explanation of Secret Service\u2019s resistance to OIG\u2019s oversight activities\u201d and revealed the existence of the missing texts months earlier.<\/p>\n

They flatly rejected Cuffari\u2019s explanation that his office could not comply with congressional records requests during an ongoing criminal investigation, citing Supreme Court precedent and prior parallel congressional investigations in 2015 around the alleged targeting of conservative groups by the IRS and in 2017 examining alleged collusion and coordination between the Trump campaign and a Russian election influence operation during the 2016 presidential elections.<\/p>\n

Additionally, they noted that the records and interviews are relevant and necessary because Congress is directly investigating potential misconduct by Cuffari and his office in conducting his duties.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Committees are seeking to determine whether you censored findings of domestic abuse and sexual harassment by DHS employees, covered up the extent of missing records in your investigation of the January 6, 2021, insurrection, and failed to fulfill the requirements for Inspectors General to perform their work with independence and objectivity,\u201d Thompson and Maloney wrote. \u201cFull compliance with our requests is necessary, in part to determine whether legislative reforms are needed to ensure the duties of Inspectors General are carried out in an \u2018independent and objective\u2019 manner and that Congress is kept \u2018fully and currently informed about problems and deficiencies\u2019 as required by law.\u201d<\/p>\n

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