Thompson, Maloney call for Secret Service watchdog to be removed from probe of erased texts
Source: USA Today
WASHINGTON Two leaders of key House committees wrote Tuesday to urge an inspector general to step aside in the investigation of Secret Service texts that were erased during the investigation of the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021.
The erasure, which Secret Service officials have said was unintentional, is now part of a criminal investigation. But Joseph Cuffari, the inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security, failed to notify the committees about the lapse for months.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., head of the committee investigating the attack, and Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., head of the Oversight and Reform Committee, said the inspector general failed to promptly notify Congress as required by law after learning about the missing texts in December.
The omission left Congress in the dark about key developments in this investigation and may have cost investigators precious time to capture relevant evidence, the lawmakers said.
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Good idea.
llashram
(6,265 posts)treasonous trump-loving seditionists that are embedded at all levels of our local and national government. It is worrisome when I think about all the roach spray it's going to take to clean the house of this vermin.
Kid Berwyn
(15,032 posts)Supreme Court, the Pentagon, State, DoJ, The IC
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Joinfortmill
(14,492 posts)Skittles
(153,258 posts)how so many seemingly intelligent, accomplished people are willing to utterly HUMILIATE themselves over that vile BUFFOON....I mean, WTF!!!!!!!!!
mopinko
(70,294 posts)but i wish someone knew how to get them to quit.
gab13by13
(21,478 posts)Kid Berwyn
(15,032 posts)Use what they find to get their way when needed later.
mopinko
(70,294 posts)blackmail him.
Orrex
(63,259 posts)mopinko
(70,294 posts)have to walk a fine line.
i had a friend who worked at eeoc under w. they just didnt take cases, and let the lawyers play tetris all day. most eventually quit or retired like she did.
but there's always ways to fly speck work, or give shitty assignments, or none...
Orrex
(63,259 posts)I see your point about retaliation, but it seems that there should be some recourse re: disciplinary action for malfeasance or dereliction of duty or whatnot?
Just ranting here, but I know someone who was fired for wearing the wrong shoes to work, but these clowns can shit on a congressional investigation with comparative impunity!
mopinko
(70,294 posts)by whom? who has the huevos?
Orrex
(63,259 posts)"No political will," as the expression goes.
edhopper
(33,651 posts)How is it somenone an appointed position can't be removed by the President?
justhanginon
(3,290 posts)Cha
(297,926 posts)Focus!
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