President of the United States
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President:
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is writing to urge you to take immediate steps to remove Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Joseph V. Cuffari and Social Security Administration Inspector General Gail Ennis.
Allowing either inspector general (IG) to remain in their current position risks undermining the integrity and effectiveness of both their own offices and the federal agencies they oversee. Based on our extensive reporting, POGO first called on you to remove Department of Homeland Security (DHS) IG Cuffari in April 2022 after he actively and consistently endangered the human and civil rights of federal employees, demonstrating a chilling lack of independence from DHS law enforcement agencies. Since then, he has also failed to provide Congress with a timely notification, as required by statute, of access to records problems at the Secret Service in connection with a review of DHS’s preparation and response to January 6, 2021.1 He has also stonewalled congressional oversight — including bipartisan queries — into his decisions and actions by his leadership team that have kept troubling findings regarding DHS misconduct secret from department leaders, the public, and Congress. Social Security Administration (SSA) IG Ennis has similarly engaged in misconduct unbefitting of her office, and stands accused of whistleblower retaliation,...
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