says some information you might find embarrassing needs to get out and he s talk about the jason chaffetz. now the director of the secret service as you mentioned is putting o autostatement apologizing. i don t know if we have that to put up but i can read part to you. the secret service takes employee misconduct very seriously and as i ve stated before, any employee, regardless of rank or seniority who has committed misconduct will be held accountable. i will ensure the appropriate disciplinary actions are taken. i again apologize to representative chaffetz for this wholly avoidable and embarrassing misconduct. and, you know, this is essentially the director of the secret service admitting that one of his top officials was engaged in an embarrassing misconduct. and as, you know, poppy, this bombs on the heels of a slew of embarrassing episodes for the secret service. including that fence-jumping
reporter: the 29-page report makes clear federal privacy law was violated numerous times as congressman chaffetz s sensitive personal information was repeatedly accessed. he said what the report exposes is behavior that crossed the line adding, quote, it was a tactic designed to intimidate and embarrass me and, frankly, it s scary to think about all the possible dangers in having your personal information exposed. the work of the committee, however, will continue. i remain undeterred in conducting proper and rigorous oversight. chaffetz has been a vocal critic of the secret service digging into allegations of misconduct in his role as chairman of the house oversight committee. during a contentious time, the inspector general report points to an e-mail which in the agency s assistant director wrote this, quote: some information that he might find embarrassing needs to get out just to be fair. responding to the report, secret service director joseph clancy says the secret service takes
with respect to the allegations of employee misconduct on march 4th 2015 i personally became aware of the allegations on march 9th when i received a phone call informing me of an anonymous e-mail that was circulating. on that same date, i determined that the allegations should be referred to the department of homeland security s office of the inspector general. i made this decision because allegations of misconduct involving employees at the gs-15 level and higher must be referred to the oig in accordance with departmental policy. i trust the oig s investigation will be thorough. i have committed the secret service s full cooperation to the oig, and i eagerly await the findings of their investigation. the fact that i did not learn of this allegation until five days after it is said to have occurred is unacceptable. i m very unhappy about it. i called my senior staff together last week and made clear my expectations for prompt notification of allegations of misconduct that could impact
conduit in the irs. the attorney general said they are not going to investigate it for criminal activity. you think of a reason? why not? not to my knowledge. eric holder, the attorney general said i am not going to investigate anything that may make the obama administration look bad. anything. right. if this has happened to the bush administration the media would be outraged. the irs had to pay the national organization of marriage a 50,000 dollar settlement. the irs is not the only government agency with missing data. the eps saying they can t locate e-mails alleged employee misconduct. a hard drive crash destroyed its e-mails. committee chairman darrel issa is now threatening to hold the epa in contempt. first the irs law and now the epa. log on to our fox and friends
six-miles of baghdad. back home agencies in washington seem to be having all kinds of problems with our hard drives crashing. the environmental protection agency says it can t locate e-mails and other crucial document oos involving ladies and gentlemened employee misconduct. the eps telling the house oversight committee a hard drive crash destroyed the e-mails. to the other missing e-mails at the irs scandal. daryl issa darrel issa calling for investigation. lois lerner targeted chuck grassley. the scandal just keeps on growing. good morning. here we go again with lois lerner. this could be the tipping point to actually pull in a special prosecutor. we know learner was involved in the irs effort to target political groups that were entangled in that at least. now she is accused of targeting