Federal Government Policy and Business

House Oversight chairman questions Secret Service’s hunt for whistleblowers

The Washington Post: Lawmakers on Tuesday raised concerns about why the Secret Service appears to be trying to identify whistleblowers inside the agency at the same time its director has vowed to fix serious problems that whistleblowers first brought to light.

The chairman and the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee asked Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy in a letter to explain why his investigators have in recent days been questioning staff about internal information that was shared with Congress and became the subject of a Washington Post story this spring. Internal records cited by The Post show that Clancy had not removed a controversial top director as part of a leadership shakeup he promised and that the official remained on the agency’s payroll, listed as Clancy’s chief of staff.

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