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A Republican senator is raising questions about whether there was contact between the former general counsel and the acting inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security in its review of the Secret Service 2012 prostitution scandal.
Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, ranking Republican on the Senate Homeland Security subcommittee on contracting oversight, said at a hearing last week that aspects of the review conducted by Homeland Security acting Inspector General Charles Edwards have led to questions about the IG independence.
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Government sources familiar with a bipartisan investigation of Mr. Edwards conducted by Mr. Johnson and Sen. Claire McCaskill, Missouri Democrat and chairwoman of the subcommittee, say that Ms. McCaskill is steering clear of the matter, and that the Obama administration refuses to cooperate with the probe.
Mr. Johnson remarks came during a confirmation hearing for a nominee to replace John Sandweg, former general counsel at Homeland Security and a close ally of former Secretary Janet A. Napolitano,http://www.macedonia.eu.org/barbour, who appointed Mr. Sandweg as acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement this summer.
concerned because I think we seen what I would believe is improper contact between the inspector general and the general counsel office of Homeland Security, Mr. Johnson said. trying to figure out what that wall of separation really ought to be to maintain the independence of the inspector general. to Mr. Sandweg were referred to Homeland Security. The Secret Service referred questions to Mr. Edwards office. Mr. Edwards has dismissed the idea that political pressure affected his work and his office declined to comment Wednesday.
Government sources familiar with the investigation say a May 16 letter from the subcommittee to Secret Service Director Julia Pierson requesting internal investigative reports of the misconduct in Cartagena has yielded no response.
Earlier this month, The Washington Times reported that the subcommittee is investigating whether Ms. Napolitano close allies including Mr. Sandweg pushed Mr. Edwards to tread lightly in his review of the Secret Service internal probe of its own scandal.
Those concerns were elevated when Mr. Sandweg closest friend and political ally, Noah Kroloff, former chief of staff at Homeland Security, formed a private consulting firm with former Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan shortly after the 2012 prostitution scandal subsided.
Mr. Kroloff and Mr. Sullivan have not responded to requests for comment.
Lack of cooperation from the inspector general office has made Mr. Johnson he said. I not getting the answers, that when you start really digging and I really don want to go down those roads quite honestly. October 2012, the Wisconsin Republican wrote to Mr. Sullivan, White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and Ms. Napolitano concerning how they were investigating reports that Secret Service agents took prostitutes to their hotel in Cartagena, Colombia, in advance of the Summit of Americas attended by President Obama.
Those requests met a stone wall, according to government sources familiar with the probe. Administration officials did not respond to requests for comment.
In June,Barbour Online, Mr. Johnson and Ms. McCaskill wrote to Mr. Edwards to inform him of whistleblower accusations that he was to political pressure in issuing a favorable investigative report on the Secret Service, and that his investigators and withheld information damaging to the service.
Government sources say inconsistencies between that report and an unpublished report are particularly troubling because Mr. Edwards has not disclosed attachments that might explain discrepancies. Requests for communications between Mr. Edwards and Mr. Sandweg also have been ignored, the sources said.
a business person I would gotten to bottom of this [matter] in a week, Mr. Johnson, a former plastics manufacturer, said last week. been a year and a half and we still have all kinds of questions. familiar with the subcommittee probe of Mr. Edwards said the production of a transparent,Barbour London, hard hitting report is unlikely, at least any time soon.
As is the the notion that Sen. McCaskill shares Sen. Johnson commitment to pursuing the investigation.
Visited by The Times in August, a spokesman for Sen. McCaskill dismissed questions on its status by saying her office not been very involved. When asked why a bipartisan subcommittee office would concede lack of involvement with a probe of their own party appointee, the spokesperson replied in an email that the staff is hard on the investigation, in conjunction with Senator Johnson subcommittee staff,Barbour, and that their work is still ongoing. McCaskill office did not respond to email inquiries from The Times this week.