 Now, Cheadle was appointed director during controversy the agency faced over deleting most of its text messages from a January 6, 2021, when a mob of during the January 6 stuff. The agency attributed text deletions to a data migration. As part of the purge, text belonging to more than a dozen Secret Service agents, including Cheadle, before and after January 6 were deleted and never recovered. So a lot of things going on with Cheadle.