[New investigation] More mistakes

 

I recently sent you an update on what we’ve reported so far about Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Joseph V. Cuffari. Late last week we published another investigation into the failures of the DHS IG. This time, we discovered he nixed an alert to Congress about the purged January 6 texts. We obtained documents showing attorneys working in the DHS IG’s office approved five detailed paragraphs that would have alerted Congress in June to the Secret Service’s deletion of texts sent around January 6. But Cuffari never sent that detailed alert. Even though his staff explicitly recommended that he do so. Not only did Cuffari wait far too long to finally write a letter to Congress telling them "The United States Secret Service erased those text messages," but the letter itself — sent months after Cuffari's office knew the texts were deleted — contained far less detail than the earlier, unsent alert approved by attorneys. Questions about the IG’s credibility as a watchdog are not new. We’ve focused on this issue for over a year now, and just last week a report from 2013 emerged showing that investigators found Cuffari violated ethical standards in his last federal job. For more details on Cuffari’s continued failures, read our recent investigation. Caitlin MacNeal Communications Director Project On Government Oversight Contribute

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