The DHS inspector general has cleared a senior DHS official of failing to cooperate with an investigation into alleged political retaliation against career government staffers
The Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general has cleared a senior DHS official of failing to cooperate with an investigation into alleged political retaliation against career government staffers.
Monday to acting DHS secretary Chad Wolf that was also shared with several key Capitol Hill committees, James Read, the DHS IG’s counsel, said that the watchdog’s office is retracting that memo. The original memo did not have “an adequate factual basis,” Read’s letter said. DHS has also agreed to reimburse Ciccone for her legal fees, which ran into five figures.
But a letter to DHS’ IG and a timeline put together by her lawyer and reviewed by POLITICO suggest that she did try to cooperate soon after she was asked for an interview. The State Department IG first emailed her on Sept. 6, 2018 requesting an interview. On Sept. 17, a lawyer she had retained called up the IG to tell them she planned to cooperate but needed documents related to the investigation to which she no longer had access.
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