Three senior DOJ officials leaked non-public investigative information ‘days before an election’: inspector general

https://nypost.com/ ^ | 12/30/2024 | VICTOR NAVA

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Three senior Justice Department officials violated internal policies and engaged in “misconduct” when they leaked details about a non-public investigation to the media “days before an election,” the agency’s inspector general revealed Monday.

The DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG), which has been run by Michael Horowitz since 2012, launched a probe after it received a complaint alleging that a “politically motivated” disclosure related to “information about ongoing matters” was made in the runup to an unspecified election.

“The OIG investigation found that three then Senior DOJ Officials violated DOJ’s Confidentiality and Media Contacts Policy by leaking to select reporters, days before an election, non-public DOJ investigative information regarding ongoing DOJ investigative matters, resulting in the publication of two news articles that included the non-public DOJ investigative information,” the DOJ OIG said in a brief investigative summary.

“The OIG investigation also found that one of these three then Senior DOJ Officials violated the Confidentiality and Media Contacts Policy and DOJ’s Social Media Policy by reposting through a DOJ social media account links to the news articles,” the summary continued.

The three officials were no longer DOJ employees when the investigation began and declined or did not respond to interview requests, according to the OIG, which does not have the authority to compel testimony from former employees.

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[Mariner]

Congress can compel them.

[tired&retired]

Is it criminal or just unethical?

[coloradan]

Sounds like felony election interference, if not outright insurrection.

[Ken522]

How convenient - the three leakers have no names ....

[1Old Pro]

then Senior DOJ Officials

Name names, it's the only way to attempt to hold these traitors accountable.

[ronnie raygun]

Congress can compel them.
I dont remember, I dont recall, ok thank you, next!

When do we learn our lesson?

[tennmountainman]

Did Horowitz recommend Promotions for the 3 DOJ Leakers?

[Red Badger]

[Robert A Cook PE]

Appointed in 2012 to an Inspector General Poat under the Soviet’s Obama-Biden regime?

More likely, the whistleblowers were talking about the FBI hiding Biden’s laptop!

[TStro]

Oh No!
This couldn’t happen in our country!
Take ‘em all to Gitmo and try them for treason. New leadership need to get real serious about this. Make examples, maybe their underlings will come forward and reveal all.

[catnipman]

let me summarize the information in this “investigative” report: three people did something bad ... doesn’t get anymore vague than that ...

would be nice to know what this is REALLY all about ...

[Ann Archy]

NAMES?

[libertylover]

Is it criminal or just unethical?

I don't know, but it should be criminal - like leaking classified information.

[adorno]

Congress can compel them.

If congress can compel them, that means congress knows their names, or the OIG gave congress their names. Congress would also know what the leaks were and what elections were involved, and who was impacted by the leaks.

Meanwhile, the elections are over, so, congress will just move on and forget the whole matter.

[TexasM1A]

Yeah?, so.
Nothing will happen to anyone.

[blueyon]

I want names!!!!!!! Demand they be named, the leakers and those that got the info!

[Chewbarkah]

Is this a trolling operation where DoJ will finally let it out that the planted stories hurt poor Hillary?

[John 3_19-21]

The current OIG model in all departments in D.C. serves only one purpose. It notifies key DeepState operatives of their exposure to pending potentially criminal conduct. Helping to facilitate their quick exit, or lateral relocation to avoid accountability.

An ancillary serviceof the OIG is to lock out all outside inquiry and reporting by the shield of “we cannot comment on an ongoing investigation”.