Homeland Security
Reps. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) demanded the Homeland Security inspector general resign over missing Jan. 6 records.
Olivia Troye, who quit the administration in 2020, appeared to call out the same Trump official now embroiled in the Secret Service text-deletion scandal.
A plan was in the works to collect phones and retrieve missing data, then suddenly dropped, sources told The Washington Post.
The phones of Homeland Security leaders Chad Wolf and Ken Cuccinelli reportedly were wiped, much like those of Trump's Secret Service agents.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The Homeland Security inspector general's delay, reported by The Washington Post, may make it harder to recover evidence in the Jan. 6 investigation.
Federal and state government officials and judges are “probably most at risk," along with those at protests and reproductive health care facilities, warns DHS.
Employees accused of misconduct at the Department of Homeland Security could face more stringent penalties under an overhaul that follows complaints about the handling of internal discipline in the third largest U.S. government agency.
The Department of Homeland Security said it’s seeing an increase in threats from domestic extremists directed at democratic institutions.
Threats are "likely to persist and may increase leading up to and following" the ruling, the Department of Homeland Security warned.
“It is just an episodic failure. And it has set the true disinformation professionals, wherever they live, back.”