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Jul 24, 2021 · David Buckley, the newly named staff director for the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol insurrection, was found to be retaliating against a whistleblower during his time...
Jul 24, 2021 · In 2019, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) inspector general revealed that Buckley and other officials in the CIA Office of the Inspector General (OIG) opened a so-called “retaliatory...
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Jul 23, 2021 · David Buckley, the newly named staff director for the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol insurrection, was found to be retaliating against a whistleblower during his time...
- Hooters and Hunting Trips
- A Criminal Case Botched
- Two More IGS Get Involved
- A Jan. 6 Investigation Disrupted?
The backstory of the Buckley-Bakaj conflict began in 2007, when sales teams at multiple government contracting firms were showering perks on CIA officials, according to a whistleblower complaint filed in 2011. Among the gifts CIA officials received were tickets to baseball games, VIP access to NASCAR races, hunting trips and dinners. One CIA offici...
The U.S. Attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Virginia had worked to bring criminal charges related to the scheme. Investigators in the CIA Inspector General’s office also gathered evidence about the wrongdoing and shared materials with prosecutors. But according to four people with knowledge of the situation, some of those materials were m...
The fiasco triggered tumult inside the CIA IG’s office, which couldn’t investigate itself to figure out what went wrong. So Buckley’s deputy asked former colleagues at the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s inspector general to review the whistleblower allegations. That review detailed multiple problems involving the management of evidence but did no...
The CIA kickback affair, byzantine as it is, might complicate the select committee’s probe of the Capitol riot. That’s because, since leaving the CIA, Bakaj has worked extensively with congressional whistleblowers — including perhaps the most important of the Trump era, the still-anonymous person whose account of a now-infamous phone call with Ukra...
Aug 4, 2021 · Buckley is accused of retaliating against Bakaj for cooperating in an investigation into potential evidence manipulation within the inspector general’s office.
Jul 23, 2021 · A new report from the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General substantiated complaints of whistleblower retaliation levied against David Buckley, the newly appointed staff...
Aug 3, 2021 · The Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general was assigned to investigate the matter and agreed, concluding in 2019 that the evidence Mr. Buckley used to open the investigation of...
