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GOP lawmakers are calling for transparency astir nan protection of whistleblowers successful nan ongoing investigation into nan 2 assassination attempts against erstwhile President Trump.
In a missive penned to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, senators Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Johnson, R-Wis., expressed interest aft whistleblowers revealed that Secret Service labor were required to motion nondisclosure agreements (NDAs).
The whistleblowers alleged they were required to motion NDAs to entree briefings connected "sensitive reporting" applicable to their activity to protect erstwhile President Trump.
Photos, shared successful nan missive to Mayorkas, showed screenshots sent to Secret Service agents requesting them to motion a NDA.
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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas listens arsenic President Biden speaks astir an executive bid successful nan East Room astatine nan White House successful Washington June 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Secret Service agents were required to motion NDAs to person further accusation connected erstwhile President Trump's detail. (Grassley, Johnson to DHS)
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The email records show that PID sent these labor nondisclosure agreements they were required to motion arsenic a information for nan OTRI briefing. (Grassley, Johnson to DHS)
Email instructions sent to Secret Service agents. (Grassley, Johnson to DHS)
The senators are now requesting that DHS uncover nan scope of nan NDAs and if labor were required to motion statutorily-required anti-gag language.
In their letter, nan senators referred to nan Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA).
The WPEA states that "no national agency nondisclosure policy, form, agreement, aliases related documents whitethorn beryllium implemented aliases enforced if it does not incorporate circumstantial connection notifying nan worker of their authorities to disclose waste, fraud, abuse, aliases misconduct to Congress, an Inspector General, aliases nan Office of Special Counsel (OSC)."
Former President Trump is assisted by U.S. Secret Service unit aft gunfire rang retired during a run rally astatine nan Butler Farm Show successful Butler, Pa., July 13, 2024. (Reuters/Brendan McDermid)
Senators Grassley and Johnson besides requested that nan DHS supply nan threat appraisal utilized to warrant sending nan NDAs.
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They besides requested that nan agency stock really nan request altered and affected Trump's and immoderate different authorities officials' protective details.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, participates successful a proceeding connected nan attempted assassination of erstwhile President Trump convened by nan Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security committees successful Washington, D.C., July 30, 2024. (Allison Bailey/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
The senators highlighted nan request for DHS to supply transparency astir whistleblowers' rights.
"The value of whistleblowers knowing their authorities nether nan rule cannot beryllium stated enough, and national agencies should promote their labor to disclose allegations of waste, fraud, and maltreatment done each due channels," they said. "Federal agencies cannot conceal their wrongdoing down forbidden non-disclosure policies and related actions."
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