WASHINGTON — Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is demanding an investigation of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials who allegedly retaliated against whistleblowers who flagged failures to fingerprint potentially dangerous criminal migrants, The Post can exclusively reveal.
The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman fired off a letter Monday to CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott naming and shaming those “bureaucrats” who were promoted even after they sidelined whistleblowers Fred Wynn, Mike Taylor and Mark Jones.
“To ensure that retaliation does not happen again at [Department of Homeland Security], CBP, or any of the Department’s other component agencies, the bureaucrats that retaliated against Mr. Wynn, Mr. Taylor, and Mr. Jones must be held accountable,” Grassley told Scott.
“Although it’s unclear to me whether all retaliators have faced consequences, I’ve been made aware that some have been promoted,” he added.
The Iowa Republican singled out Ronald Ocker, assistant commissioner of CBP’s Office of Intelligence, and Juan Fernandez, the executive director of that office, for having “improperly removed” the whistleblowers nearly a decade ago from a pilot program to implement the DNA Fingerprint Act of 2005.
Jones, Taylor and Wynn worked in the agency’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Division between 2016 and 2018 — and found out that federal law enforcement officers weren’t enforcing the statute.
As a result, DNA from criminal arrestees hadn’t been collected since 2009,...
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