[rawhide]

DHHS says the person monitoring the lunches was not employed by the agency. In a statement (PDF), the agency said it is not department “policy to inspect, go through or question any child about food items brought from home. The facts we have gathered confirm that no DHHS employee or contractor did this.”

Just reading they deny all involvement.

[csense]

Just reading they deny all involvement.

Yeah, I know. I read the article too, but they seem to suggest, in that email, that they know something. At least that's how I read it. Either this consultant was the person, or he knows who the person is seems to be suggested. They're going to initially deny an embarrassing situation like this anyway. Try to take the sting out of the moment, if you will. Then, when they have their story choreographed for public consumption, they'll walk out a report like it's no big deal.

[RegulatorCountry]

"The facts we have gathered confirm that no DHHS employee or contractor did this.”

There's a difference between a consultant and a contractor. DHHS did not say that no consultant did this. So, it sounds to me as if the problem individual would be associated with FPG Child Development Institute.

[sport]

Which means that they are in it up to their eyeballs, if not deeper.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

The facts we have gathered confirm that no DHHS employee or contractor did this...

I can parse that statement on so many levels. acts? What facts? Confirm? IOW, We said we did not do it and now confirm we did not do it. What did they confirm? A negative.

That sentence tells us all we need to know. If it was a DHHS employee or contractor, we will never know.