To hide the truth about what really happened at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, then-Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle, who has since resigned from her post, destroyed evidence from agents' phones, an agency whistleblower has revealed.
The Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) launched a criminal investigation into the matter back in July 2022 that resulted in the later release of a highly redacted report. Coupled with what the whistleblower has come forward to say, we know from the investigation that Cheatle played a direct role in the "deletion" of all January 6 text messages from the phones of Secret Service agents.
A watchdog that oversees Secret Service, the Inspector General uncovered evidence to suggest that Cheatle deleted the texts immediately after the oversight panel requested all electronic communications from January 6. Secret Service denies this, claiming all text messages were preserved and handed over to investigators.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) believes that the number of text messages deleted by Cheatle is so high that her actions constitute criminal obstruction of Congress, especially since lawmakers previously sent DHS preservation notices to all involved agencies prior to the "device migration," as Cheatle called it.