The sent/received metadata but with the actual messages missing on the USSS agents' phones could have two possible explanations:
1. They were using a messaging app with the disappearing / exploding messages feature turned on. Most of the popular encrypted messaging apps have this option.
2. If not option 1 - whether they used an encrypted messenger or regular SMS, the messages were specifically and intentionally deleted.
What it also means is that the earlier explanation from USSS about the messages being lost due a routine phone storage wipe was totally inaccurate.
@voltronic Didn't one of the SS... Hang on. Sry bbias
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/the-head-secret-service-is-leaving-to-join-snapchat-2022-7%3famp
Isn't Snapchat one of these disappearing message apps?
@Klaatu_Veratta_Nectarine
Sort of, but I was thinking of Signal, Keybase, Wire, etc.