And just WHAT info was obtained?
Mancuso, 50, has been serving as the acting inspector general of the Department of Defense since Eleanor Hill left the department in April 1999.
Grassley has detailed several examples of what he characterized as Mancuso’s inadequacies as a leader in a report he sent to three Senate committees.
On June 29, despite Grassley’s report, President Clinton formally nominated Mancuso for the Pentagon’s inspector general position and did so with full support from top Pentagon officials, including Secretary of Defense William Cohen.
Grassley has accused Mancuso of questionable integrity and judgment, from verbally criticizing Mancuso’s leadership of the Tailhook investigation in 1991, to writing in the report how he gave preferential treatment and aid to a senior Pentagon agent who had been convicted of a felony.
Grassley’s report, which also was sent to the Senate’s Armed Services Committee and Government Affairs Committee, states that under Mancuso’s guidance as director of the DCIS, agents and employees "condoned and encouraged maltreatment of rank and file agents, including the use of falsified investigative reports, while protecting and rewarding a fellow manager who was a convicted felon."
The report also claims that Mancuso helped Larry Hollingsworth, the former director of internal affairs, retire with full benefits six months after Hollingsworth was convicted in April 1996 of filing a false U.S. passport application in the name of a deceased teen-ager.
In addition, Grassley’s report cited another criminal investigator who falsified reports, fabricated witness statements during at least two investigations and received a cash bonus after this agent’s misconduct was brought to the attention of senior DCIS management.