Chair Bennie Thompson said the committee obtained texts from agents.
has been a major focus for the panel since testimony during its public hearings in June and July revealed the agency's role in key events on Jan. 6.Chair Bennie Thompson told reporters that the materials obtained are "a combination of a number of text messages, radio traffic ... thousands of exhibits."
Thompson said the the materials consist "primarily" of texts from agents on Jan. 5 and 6, but declined to go into further detail because the committee is still reviewing them.Rep. Zoe Lofgren , another committee member, said on MSNBC on Wednesday "it's been a large volume of information that we really pressed hard for the agency to release."this summer over the deletion of agents' texts from Jan.
That culminated in a subpoena requesting "the relevant text messages, as well as any after action reports that have been issued in any and all divisions of the USSS pertaining or relating in any way to the events of January 6, 2021."The Secret Service came into focus for the committee during its hearings over the summer, in which former Trump administration aides testified that agents were central players in key events on Jan. 6.
Former aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified that she was told former President Trump lunged at an agent in an effort to have his motorcade drive to the Capitol, something
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