DEFENSE/TRUMP ADMIN: “The Defense Department electronically wiped the phones of some former top officials who served under then-President Donald Trump, including deleting text messages related to last year’s attack on the US Capitol.
Government lawyers made that admission in a court filing tied to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by American Oversight, a government watchdog group…
Details of the missing DOD texts come on the heels of revelations that some US Secret Service text messages and those of former Department of Homeland Security officials surrounding Jan. 6, 2021 events also are missing…
But, the government’s filing states, ‘when an employee separates from DOD or Army he or she turns in the government-issued phone, and the phone is wiped.’”
-Billy House, “Jan. 6 Missing-Text Case Widens to Trump-Era Pentagon Officials,” bloomberg.com, August 2, 2022