“ore than 2 months after OIG renewed its requests for select Secret Service employees’ text messages,” the draft language reads, “Secret Service claimed inability to extract text message content due to an April 2021 mobile phone system migration, which wiped all data.” The draft language also would have told Congress about the missing texts. The inspector general’s office eventually got those documents without redactions, after surmounting hurdles that “regularly resulted in avoidable delay.” Secret Service also gave redacted documents to the DHS watchdog, without saying who made the redactions or why, according to the draft text. The draft language then said that Secret Service interviewees refused to provide documents directly to the inspector general’s office, which amounted to “resistance to OIG’s oversight activities, for which justification has not been provided.” Over that time period, “Secret Service has resisted OIG’s oversight activities and continued to significantly delay OIG’s access to records, impeding the progress of OIG’s Janureview,” the draft text opens. The language that didn’t make it into the final report to Congress included specific detail about resistance the watchdog office faced in obtaining Secret Service texts during “this reporting period,” meaning Oct. The draft language was also shared with the inspector general’s Office of External Affairs, which is helmed in an acting capacity by the chief of staff to IG Joseph Cuffari. The draft language critical of the Secret Service was greenlit by lawyers at the inspector general’s office, as outlined in another document that the nonprofit also obtained and shared with reporters.
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