DHS OIG, Joseph Cuffari will NOT provide documents or cooperate with Jan 6 Committee

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Maria Sacchetti @mariasacchetti

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Asked to recuse himself from Secret Service text-message investigation, DHS OIG Cuffari says: No.

No documents either for oversight committees.

Homeland Security watchdog faces rebukes from lawmakers in missing texts case - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/16/missing-secret-service-texts-cuffari/
archive link: https://archive.ph/iHRoe

The Department of Homeland Security’s chief watchdog has rejected calls from leading Democratic legislators to recuse himself from the investigation into the erasure of text messages that Secret Service agents exchanged during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, drawing fresh rebukes from lawmakers on Tuesday.

Inspector General Joseph Cuffari said in a letter made public Tuesday that he would not share investigative documents or allow his top lieutenants to sit for transcribed interviews before House committees investigating the attack, nor would he provide documents that lawmakers requested.

Cuffari said forcing him to step aside “has no legal basis” and “would upend the very independence that Congress has established for Inspectors General,” according to the letter he sent to House oversight committees on Aug. 8.

The House committees on Homeland Security and Oversight and Reform published his letter Tuesday, along with their response accusing Cuffari of delaying their inquiry into one of the most grievous attacks in U.S. history. Cuffari surprised legislators last month with a letter accusing the Secret Service of erasing text messages from the time of the attack after he had asked for them...

[leftieNanner]

1. FIRE. HIS. ASS.

This is what Trump has wrought.

Just say no has a whole new connotation.

[crickets]

4. 👆👆

[exboyfil]

12. YES

[mercuryblues]

2. fire his ass and arrest him

[magicarpet]

3. Fuck him and the Fascist unicorn he is prancing around on.

Who da fuck does he think he is ?

[Samrob]

5. How does an Executive Office IG get away with this shit? FIRE HIM!

[W_HAMILTON]

6. This Trump-appointed lackey should be asked to resign immediately.

And if he doesn't resign, he should be fired.

He is willfully refusing to do his job and thumbing his nose at a co-equal branch of government. I hope the administration does not let this stand.

[Nevilledog]

7. It makes zero sense to me why this traitor hasn't been fired. Zero.

[Midnight Writer]

8. Refusing oversight? Hiding documents from Congress? In a case of insurrection against our Nation?

Game over, man.

Show him the door. If he won't do his job, replace him with someone who will.

[RAB910]

9. This guy was a corrupt right-winger before being appointed by Trump

There are few wrongdoings he isn't willing to undertake. Biden needs to fire his criminal ass.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Cuffari

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. This idiot needs to be fired

[sinkingfeeling]

11. Biden needs to fire him immediately.

[JCMach1]

14. This!

[Duppers]

13. K & R