would also be surprising if it wasn t now such a pattern. first, it was the secret service, second, top officials at homeland security. today, the washington post reports that the pentagon deleted messages from the senior trump defense department and army officials according to new court records. those officials were in charge of mobilizing the national guard to respond to the capitol attack including then-acting defense secretary chris miller and then army secretary ryan mccarthy. in a court filing from march posted on the website of the watchdog group american oversight, defense department lawyers said government phones are turned in and wiped when an employee leaves the department and the text messages were not preserved, therefore, could not be searched. we are back with luke and joyce. so, joyce, the washington post reports that the deletions were standard process and nobody was
deletions. we feel we need a someone we can trust that will report directly to the american people and to congress as they should. we have asked sigi, the evere oversight board to appoint an acting ig for just the january 6th proceedings and what happened to these deletions and help us to retrieve them. we feel that since he couldn t report them, he s not going to be able to retrieve them. just minutes from now you ll hold a hearing to examine the responsibility that firearm manufacturers have with gun violence in this country, specifically the manufacturers are ar-15 weapons, which have featured so prominently in mass shootings we have seen in this country. what is the goal of today s hearing? well, the report was to look at the role of gun manufacturers in the soaring amount of deaths in our country. the last statistics were for
it could be something very, very benign, not at all intriguing let alone sinister. we were that they were not that they were actually sent, but they re not being received by the committee. what do you make of the fact that it was up to individual agents to save these records, upload them in some fashion? why was the onus on them to do that as opposed to an agency wide mandate that somebody else controlled? laura, first of all, good evening. glad to be here with you. you know, the secret service has found itself in the middle of a quagmire here over these lost text messages. you know, and this terms of how many there are in the first place, we still don t know. some were deleted. the deletions we don t know whether they were intentional or by accident. a year after they were requested by the inspector general and congress, we think many of them
substantive they are. it could be something very, very benign, not at all intriguing let alone sinister. we were that they were not that they were actually sent, but they re not being received by the committee. what do you make of the fact that it was up to individual agents to save these records, upload them in some fashion? why was the onus on them to do that as opposed to an agency wide mandate that somebody else controlled? laura, first of all, good evening. glad to be here with you. you know, the secret service has found itself in the middle of a quagmire here over these lost text messages. you know, and this terms of how many there are in the first place, we still don t know. some were deleted. the deletions we don t know whether they were intentional or by accident. a year after they were requested by the inspector general and
but the migration, where these texts may have been deleted didn t happen until the 27th. and keep in mind, when we first part of the reason why this is continuing to be a story is the secret service has not been clear and up-front in their explanations. and the first time they responded to all of this, they said that the messages were deleted, but only this was before they even got a request, right? and this is a request from the inspector general. so now we find out that really the deletions would have occurred after they were told to preserve all of these records. and that s a major issue. especially with the investigations, deposition, anything like that, that is not supposed to happen. it is not like january 6th happened and everyone thought nothing is going to come of this. we re living in 2022, it seems like in this day and age nothing is ever really deleted,