Posted on 07/13/2019 7:30:11 AM PDT by bitt
Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan is at the center of a federal investigation into the leak of confidential government information in late June that forced Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to call off a nationwide operation, three senior administration officials told the Washington Examiner.
Following the publishing of sensitive leaked law enforcement information on June 21, then-acting ICE Director Mark Morgans team followed department protocol and reported the incident to the ICE Joint Intake Center so they could investigate. JIC is an agency office that handles internal investigations of personnel misconduct, sexual abuse, staff neglect, or violations of responsibilities that may have contributed to such incidents.
Kevin McAleenan Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) There is an ongoing investigation. An internal investigation has been launched, one official said in a phone call Friday.
The investigation, which is not a criminal probe, is centered around the leader of the departments 240,000 employees, as well as at least one aide, for possible involvement in the leak. ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comment. It's not clear if JIC has referred the matter to the DHS Office of the Inspector General.
Any investigation into the malicious, unauthorized disclosure of the operations is completely justified. Any causal observer would logically deduce that McAleenans dodgy response and coy behavior warrant additional scrutiny, a second senior official said late Thursday.
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I prefer public hangings on Tuesday.
Trials following on Wednesday.
Eliminates the trouble of finding people guilty to begin with.
And it eliminates the appeals process too.
Not to mention it's much speedier. You could run 35-50 traitors through a day.
I hear ya. Imagine how President Trump feels.
I hear ya. Imagine how President Trump feels.
Just pray for the President and our country.......God will do the rest.....
Amen. I pray for President Trump and America every day.
So are you gonna primary him?
Amen. I pray for President Trump and America every day.
Me too
I agree that Trump’s hires have repeatedly caused problems. I wonder if he’s thinking like a businessman, where I may think my boss’s direction is stupid but I try to move in that direction anyway. Politics doesn’t work like that.
[I wonder if hes thinking like a businessman, where I may think my bosss direction is stupid but I try to move in that direction anyway. Politics doesnt work like that.]
Maybe the spoils system wasn’t so bad after all. Every government employee could have been fired by the new President and we wouldn’t have career bureaucrats gumming up the works.
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