Within key parts of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) watchdog office, there is widespread fear of retaliation and a belief that senior leaders do not maintain high levels of honesty and integrity, according to detailed 2022 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey results. These results include several topline positive survey scores which DHS Inspector General (IG) Joseph Cuffari has touted within the office and shared beyond it. But they also show how those scores obscure more troubling granular data that IG Cuffari has kept more closely held.
The new data comes in the wake of troubling disclosures by IG insiders that Cuffari has put the office’s independence and integrity at risk. It also comes after the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) broke the news last year that Cuffari has been under investigation into claims he retaliated against former IG staff.
Representative Bennie Thompson (D-MS), the ranking member on the House Homeland Security Committee, sought to obtain the detailed survey results from the DHS IG in December. But so far, that effort has been unsuccessful, a spokesman for committee Democrats told POGO. POGO obtained the results from the DHS Office of Inspector General (DHS IG) through the Freedom of Information Act.
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