According to a CNN report, the Secret Service has found missing text messages on agents' phones.
Text messages were deleted after the Capitol attack.
The investigators are looking at phones that show messages from around the riots.
According to a CNN report, the Secret Service was able to identify missing text messages on the phones of 10 agents.
The agency was at the center of a political storm after it was revealed that text messages were deleted from their phones after the Capitol attack.
CNN cited two unnamed sources as saying that the Secret Service is looking at phones that show that messages were sent and received on the day of the Capitol riot.
The investigators are trying to determine if the text messages of the 10 agents should have been preserved.
The Department of Homeland Security inspector general requested the text records of 24 Secret Service personnel who were on duty on January 6, 2021.
The House January 6 committee was told by a government watchdog that a trove of agency texts had been erased.
In response to the subpoena, the agency only sent one text.
Sources told CNN that of the 24 Secret Service personnel being investigated, 10 had no texting and three had only personal records.
After the Department of Homeland Security inspector general launched a criminal investigation into the missing texts, the agency stopped its internal investigation, according to the outlet.
The agency should have done more to preserve the texts according to members of the House.
The texts were deleted by the Secret Service with no malice.
The Secret Service was instructed to preserve their records by a letter from congressional committees.
Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesman for the Secret Service, told CNN that there was no record of the letter reaching the Secret Service after eight hours of searching.
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