Jan. 6 Missing-Text Case Widens to Trump-Era Pentagon Officials
- Defense Department responds to lawsuit by watchdog group
- Records from Trump appointees deleted when they left office
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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.