know of agents faced immense pressure that day, protecting the president from himself and the vice president from the mob his boss sent to the capitol. secret service agents feeling fearing for their own lives and they rush to get america second in command away from those chanting to hang him. the secret service acknowledging records were purged as part of a systemwide update. but today, based on a letter review by the new york times, dhs inspector general has informed the secret service to, quote, halted internal search for purged texts sent by agents around the time of january 6th so that it does not interfere with an ongoing criminal investigation. that s right. an ongoing criminal investigation. all of these developments coming to light thanks to the house select committee s quest for accountability. a number of these bombshells dropping during the panels primetime hearing thursday night. the committee, taking nearly three hours to trace what the associated press calls, q
brought this up, because this is a key issue. the post-roe era is not going to look like the pre roe era. we have an entire surveillance architecture now that is very different than what we had in the 60s and 50s. this is about so much more than abortion. it s about privacy. how they are going to figure out if you have had an abortion is intrinsically linked to what information government is going to be able to access about you. i have introduced a bill called my body my data act. what it would do is create a new national standard for any reproductive or sexually of health data. companies can only correct collect and retain what is strictly necessary to provide the service. you can ask for that data to be deleted that anytime. they can t sell it and they can only share it with your express written consent. similar to the contraception bill, individuals have a right to sue if they believe their data is being misused. i think this is the level of protection that we need for reproductive