Staffers told the inspector general the report was delayed as it 'hurt President Trump's campaign.'
Then-acting Homeland Security Security Secretary Chad Wolf with then-President Trump at an August 2020 briefing in Washington, D.C. Photo: Brendan Smialowski /AFP via Getty Imagesin the 2020 U.S. presidential election when he was acting Department of Homeland Security secretary, according to a government watchdog.the decision appears to be "based in part on political considerations" and because it "made President Trump look bad and hurt President Trump's campaign.
The finding that staffers in the department's Intelligence and Analysis office "changed the product's scope by making changes" partially for political reasons raises objectivity concerns and potentially impacts the I&A's compliance with Intelligence Community policy, per the OIG report. The intelligence product referred to, "Russia Likely to Denigrate Health of US Candidates to Influence 2020 Electoral Dynamics," was first being drafted in April 2020 after then-presidential candidate Joe Biden had emerged as aThe report, which doesn't name Wolf by name, notes that the "Acting Secretary participated in the review process multiple times despite lacking any formal role in reviewing the product, resulting in the delay of its dissemination on at least one...
Meeting notes taken by a staffer read "'AS1 [acting secretary] – will hurt POTUS – kill it per his authorities,'" and the employee told the OIG "the Acting Secretary told him to hold the product because it would hurt President Trump; he also believed the Acting Secretary was referring to authorities possessed by the DHS Secretary.
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