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CLEAR security incidents raise concerns from Congress: Two new security incidents involving CLEAR ratchet up concern from lawmakers about the company's ...
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CLEAR security incidents raise concerns from Congress
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Democrats call for DHS inspector general to resign over deleted text messages: Two Democratic lawmakers are calling on the inspector general of the Department of ...
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Biden officials must probe DeSantis' migrant abuse: House Democrat: Rep. Bennie Thompson urges Justice Department and Homeland Security officials to stop Gov ...
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Quick Glance: Florida migrant flight funds went to a company affiliated with a DeSantis adviser
  • So far, Keefe's connections to Vertol Systems provide the strongest explanation for why the state selected the firm.

  • Matt Gaetz, who Keefe hired, previously represented Vertol Systems in two complaints filed in 2010.

  • The contractor was ordered to pay $2,500 and to refrain from competing with Vertol Systems Company.)Keefe and Vertol Systems Company sued Dogwood Services, a Niceville lawn care company, in 2012.

  • The judge ruled in favor of Vertol Systems.
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Democrats Seek Testimony on Secret Service Texts, Alleging Cover-Up: The leaders of two House committees told the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector ...
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Democrats Seek Testimony on Secret Service Texts, Alleging Cover-Up
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Committee chairs threaten DHS inspector general with subpoena over missing Secret Service texts
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Top House Democrats accuse DHS inspector general of obstructing their investigations into missing Secret Service text messages
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Jan. 6 committee subpoenas Secret Service for erased text messages: The committee chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said the committee understands the ...
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Jan. 6 committee subpoenas Secret Service for erased text messages
Quick Glance: A panel on January 6 subpoenas the Secret Service for deleted text communications.
  • On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security's watchdog accused the Secret Service of destroying text conversations after it requested them.

  • According to the letter, the Secret Service informed the House Select Committee that text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021 had been wiped as part of a "device-replacement program."

  • "The agency said the "pre-planned, three-month system move" resulted in some data loss," according to the letter.

  • In response to the letter, Secret Service spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi said his agency took "strong issue with these categorically false claims."
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Jan. 6 Committee Subpoenas Secret Service in Hunt for Deleted Texts: "The committee is absolutely determined to get to the bottom of this and to find all of the ...
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Jan. 6 Committee Subpoenas Secret Service in Hunt for Deleted Texts
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Jan. 6 Panel Issues Subpoena to Secret Service in Hunt for Text Messages: The House committee is seeking messages that an inspector general for the Department of ...
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Jan. 6 Panel Issues Subpoena to Secret Service in Hunt for Text Messages
Quick Glance: 'Looks... Pretty Bad': Secret Service Erased January 6 Texts After Being Requested
  • According to the Secret Service, the messages were deleted as "part of a device-replacement program."

  • "What is going on with the Secret Service?"

  • "What secrets might they be keeping in order to serve the former president?" he wondered.

  • "I'm not getting in the car," Pence is said to have told Secret Service personnel on January 6.

  • "People need to understand that if Pence had listened to the Secret Service and fled the Capitol, this could have turned out a whole lot worse," a legislative official who was not authorized to comment publicly told the site.
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Jan. 6 panel agrees to turn over 20 depositions to DOJ: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol expects to turn over 20 ...
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Jan. 6 panel agrees to turn over 20 depositions to DOJ
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The Jan. 6 Hearings Make Trump Look Guilty. But, Does It Matter?: Despite damning evidence against the former president of the United States ...
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The Jan. 6 Hearings Make Trump Look Guilty. But, Does It Matter?
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Jan. 6 Panel Issues Subpoena to Secret Service in Hunt for Text Messages: The House committee is seeking messages that an inspector general for the Department of ...
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Jan. 6 Panel Issues Subpoena to Secret Service in Hunt for Text Messages
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House Democrats demand Twitter respond to whistleblower allegations: House Homeland Security Committee Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Rep ...
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House Democrats demand Twitter respond to whistleblower allegations
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Jan. 6 committee wants to reconstruct deleted Secret Service texts: The chairman of the Jan. 6 committee said the panel would try to get to the bottom of how ...
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Jan. 6 committee wants to reconstruct deleted Secret Service texts
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First on CNN: DHS inspector general told Jan. 6 panel he went to Mayorkas about Secret Service cooperation
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House Democrats say Trump-appointed watchdog is stonewalling inquiry into Secret Service texts
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Democrats say they have 'grave new concerns' over Secret Service texts: Top Democrats on the January 6 committee are expressing new concerns on a potential ...
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Democrats say they have 'grave new concerns' over Secret Service texts
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Donald Trump was at the center of this conspiracy,” said Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the chairman of the Jan. 6 committee ... Show more

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Read: Top Democrats accuse DHS inspector general's office of Secret Service texts cover-up
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January 6 Capitol Riot Committee Subpoenas Secret Service Over Missing Texts : The agency has to hand over the missing texts by Tuesday
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DHS to regulate controversial Border Patrol teams | TheHill: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is developing plans to increase oversight of...
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Maloney, Thompson Demand DHS IG Comply With Probe Into Deleted Jan. 6 Texts: The House Democrats accused Joseph Cuffari of obstructing their committees' ...
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Maloney, Thompson Demand DHS IG Comply With Probe Into Deleted Jan ...
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As Jan. 6 probe begins, Dem vows: 'We have to get it right': The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Bennie Thompson, didn't realize the severity ...
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As Jan. 6 probe begins, Dem vows: 'We have to get it right'
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House Democrats request documents from DHS intelligence office about Jan. 6 attack | TheHill
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Bennie Thompson accuses administration of backing out of deal on threats briefing
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