Hold those texts! Defense Department orders all federal employees to save mobile phone records

Department of Defense deputy secretary Kathleen Hicks issued an order this week demanding that all federal employees save all data on their mobile devices, including text messages, effective immediately. 

The memo was issued in the wake of the Jan. 6 committee learning that text messages from key officials at the Secret Service, Department of Homeland Security, and Department of Defense were erased. 

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