Energy Department Officials Prohibited From Talking To Investigators

The Washington Free Beacon reports that House Oversight Committee Chairman Darryl Issa has revealed that Energy Department officials have been prohibited from speaking to congressional investigators in a probe of the department?s illicit hiring practices. This certainly comes as no surprise from an administration that has a policy instructing federal employees to snitch on each other.

Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, revealed in a?letter?obtained by theWashington Free Beacon?that the deputy secretary of energy issued the gag order following a scathing inspector general report last week.

The report revealed that the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), a division of the Department of Energy (DOE), had violated DOE hiring guidelines in ways that disadvantaged military veterans.

BPA employees who cooperated with the IG?s investigation, the report found, were fired, suspended, or otherwise sanctioned.

Issa revealed in a Wednesday, July 17, letter that Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman ?verbally instructed Elliot Mainzer, the individual [Poneman] chose to serve as acting administrator of BPA, that no BPA employees were to talk with anyone regarding these allegations, including congressional investigators.?

Issa suggested that such a gag order could be illegal.

?Obstructing a congressional investigation is a crime,? he noted. ?Additionally, denying or interfering with employees? rights to furnish information to Congress is against the law.? (Read More)

As if anyone in this administration gives a hoot about following the law.

Speaking of the Energy Department, the woman Obama nominated to make their contracting more efficient ?struggled with financial management? while she was the CFO of NASA. To democrats fiscal mismanagement is a job requirement.

Source: http://lonelyconservative.com/2013/07/energy-department-officials-prohibited-from-talking-to-investigators/

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