(Bloomberg) -- Leaders of two House panels want the Homeland Security Department’s Inspector General office to answer questions about what they say are possible attempts to cover up the loss of Secret Service texts tied to the attack on the US Capitol.

In a letter Monday, Committee on Oversight Reform Chair Carolyn Maloney and Homeland Security Chair Bennie Thompson also renew their request to DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari to recuse himself from investigating those missing texts and phone records.

“The Committees have obtained new evidence that your office may have secretly abandoned efforts to collect text messages from the Secret Service more than a year ago,” the two chairmen write to Cuffari.

They goes as far as to tell Cuffari their committees also have documents indicating his office “may have taken steps to cover up the extent of missing records, raising further concerns about your ability to independently and effectively perform your duties as Inspector General.”

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Author: Billy House