According to an Office of Inspector General report: The worst Education Secretary ever, Betsy DeVos, is obsessed with leakers.
Instead of working to improve our education system, DeVos is destroying it and spending her time trying to root out leaks. Just like her boss, DeVos is obsessed with leaks.
DeVos, just like Trump, is terrified that her incompetence and wrongdoings could and will be exposed. This is the most crooked administration ever.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos asked her department’s Office of Inspector General whether grounds existed to prosecute employees who leaked budget data to The Washington Post and unclassified information to Politico, according to an internal department report.
The response: It would be challenging, because the department has “little” written policy or guidance on how employees are supposed to handle information.
“While evaluating the . . . incidents of alleged unauthorized releases of non-public information, we identified challenges to criminal prosecution or taking significant administrative actions against individuals responsible for the release of this type of information,” the report said.
The author of the report, Assistant Inspector General for Investigations Aaron R. Jordan, recommended the department establish policies to address unauthorized release of information and that it train employees on the protection and marking of “controlled unclassified information.”
Jordan wrote that implementing the proposed recommendations could make it easier for department officials to punish future leakers and “may increase the potential” for the inspector general “to obtain a criminal prosecution in certain cases.”
In a footnote, however, he added that any new policies should “take into consideration whistleblower rights and protections,” because “there may be times when what may be viewed as a ‘leak’ or unauthorized release of non-public information could involve a protected disclosure.”