Former Democrat Senate Staffer Prepared ‘Baseless and Baffling’ GAO Memo on Homeland Security Leaders’ Legitimacy

Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf testifies at a Senate hearing in Washington on March 4, 2020. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

A report questioning the legitimacy of the top two Department of Homeland Security officials’ appointments was written by a former Democrat Senate staff member, according to the DHS general counsel.

“In an Aug. 14, 2020, call between the [Government Accountability Office] GAO and DHS staff, GAO held out a junior staffer as the ‘author’ of the report,” acting DHS general counsel Chad Mizelle wrote in an Aug. 17 letter (pdf).