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Aug 2 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
NEW: In court filings related to our FOIA litigation, DOD & the Army admitted they failed to preserve text messages from Jan. 6, 2021. Officials’ phones were “wiped” & “text messages not preserved.” We’re asking AG Merrick Garland to open an investigation.
americanoversight.org/defense-depart…
On Jan. 12, 2021, just six days after the insurrection, we submitted four #FOIA requests to DOD and the Army seeking senior officials’ communications with President Trump, Vice President Pence, and top staff from Jan. 6. After receiving no records, we went to court in March 2021.
DOD & the Army have confirmed in court filings that they wiped the phones of former senior Trump admin. officials, including Acting Sec. of Defense Chris Miller and Army Sec. Ryan McCarthy, while our requests were pending. Any text messages from Jan. 6 were not preserved.
Last week, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee Sen. Richard Durbin wrote to Garland and asked him to assume control of the reported criminal investigation into DHS and United States Secret Service related to the destruction of text messages from Jan. 6, 2021.
Today, we wrote to Garland to ask him to investigate the apparent destruction of federal records by DOD and the Army — records that could have shed light on critical open questions about the Jan. 6 attack.
americanoversight.org/document/lette…
We’ve been investigating the Jan. 6 attack for more than a year and a half, and we’ve uncovered dozens of records filling in key details from the day. See some of what we’ve found in our ​​minute-by-minute timeline here:
americanoversight.org/timeline-jan6

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