NEW: Two emails, at least one prior to Jan. 6, 2021, told Secret Service employees to preserve records on their cellphones before their devices were restored to factory settings and texts were lost, a senior official says.
The first email about preserving records came in December 2020 from the Secret Service’s Office of Strategic Planning and the second was in January 2021 from the agency’s chief information officer, though the source didn't provide exact dates. Both emails included reminders that federal employees have the responsibility to preserve their records and included instructions on how to do so, the senior Secret Service official said.
The Secret Service official said that by the time the Inspector General asked for the records more than a month after the attack on the Capitol, that information was already lost.
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