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Grassley Wants Answers On Sexual Misconduct Report

Senator Chuck Grassley is asking a lot of questions and looking for answers on why an investigative report from 2008 on allegations of serious sexual misconduct involving a top Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General official never became public. He said he is concerned that agencies are fighting over the release of reports like this and they are cherry-picking legal advice to avoid releasing the investigative reports. The agencies need to remember their legal obligations under the Freedom of Information Act, Grassley said, and that accountability comes from coming clean about misconduct. The employee who was investigated had been disciplined for having unauthorized sexually explicit material on his work computer in 2003, but was still promoted to be the department’s acting inspector general. The 2008 report has not been produced, despite a pending 2013 request to the Department of the Interior Office of Inspector General, which conducted the investigation and requests directly to the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General in 2012. The basis for shielding of this document is dubious, Grassley wrote to the director of the Office of Information Policy at the Department of Justice.

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