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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...
Jul 23, 2021 · During that questioning, Buckley denied he had retaliated against Bakaj for his “claimed whistleblowing,” despite the fact that an independent government agency substantiated those...
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...
- 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...
Jul 26, 2021 · But in their report, DHS investigators concluded that Buckley’s decision to launch an investigation into Bakaj’s record in the first place, regardless of what it found, was “tainted” and motivated by retaliation.
Aug 3, 2021 · Both have cited an inspector general report issued in 2019 that found that Mr. Buckley retaliated against Andrew Bakaj, the former lead counsel for the C.I.A. whistle-blower, when the two men...
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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.
