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"WASHINGTON, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Three senior U.S. Justice Department officials committed misconduct in the final months of Donald Trump’s first presidency by leaking details about a non-public investigation, a move that may have been intended to sway the 2020 election, the department's internal watchdog concluded in a new report.
Reuters obtained the December report by Inspector General Michael Horowitz through a public records request. The report found the officials improperly shared details with two media outlets about the department's plans to collect data on COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes located in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan, four states with Democratic governors who had come under fire for their handling of the pandemic.
The leak “will be our last play on them before the election but it’s a big one,” one of the officials wrote in a text obtained by investigators.
The report did not identify the employees, though one of them worked in the Justice Department's public affairs office. They no longer work at the department, according to the inspector general's office.
...Bill Barr, who was attorney general at the time and was not accused of any wrongdoing in the report, could not be reached for comment.
President-elect Trump, who will return to the White House on Jan. 20, is a frequent critic of what he has described as the politicization of U.S. law enforcement."
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I'm betting they get their old jobs back with a promotion waiting for them.
Reuters obtained the December report by Inspector General Michael Horowitz through a public records request. The report found the officials improperly shared details with two media outlets about the department's plans to collect data on COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes located in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan, four states with Democratic governors who had come under fire for their handling of the pandemic.
The leak “will be our last play on them before the election but it’s a big one,” one of the officials wrote in a text obtained by investigators.
The report did not identify the employees, though one of them worked in the Justice Department's public affairs office. They no longer work at the department, according to the inspector general's office.
...Bill Barr, who was attorney general at the time and was not accused of any wrongdoing in the report, could not be reached for comment.
President-elect Trump, who will return to the White House on Jan. 20, is a frequent critic of what he has described as the politicization of U.S. law enforcement."
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I'm betting they get their old jobs back with a promotion waiting for them.
