The good news for investigators is that the Secret Service responded on time. The bad news is that the agency's reply was far from illuminating. (via MaddowBlog)
Congress ... told the Homeland Security Department to ensure that records related to actions taken by any of its agencies during the riots were preserved, on Jan. 16, according to a person familiar with the House committee’s investigation. The Secret Service has informed the committee that on Jan. 25, the agency instructed its employees on “how to save information that they were obligated or desired to preserve so that no pertinent data or federal records” were lost.
Making matters slightly worse, the same article added that the Secret Service “did not do its own review of its performance during the period around Jan. 6,” despite the fact that “after-action reviews have been routinely completed for large security events in the past.” I find myself dwelling on something Rep. Elaine Luria, a Jan. 6 committee member, told CNN over the weekend. “There’s a requirement for federal agencies to maintain records,” the Virginia Democrat. “An agency that was such a key part of a critical event in our history, one would assume they have done everything possible to preserve those records, to analyze them, to determine what kind of things went right or went wrong that day.
The Secret Service not only failed to conduct an after-action examination of what transpired, it also failed to preserve highly relevant communications — despite the Secret Service giving its employees instructions on how to preserve pertinent information.
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