TREY GOWDY EXCORIATES DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATOR ABOUT MISCONDUCT - WHAT THE HELL DO YOU GET TO DO

TREY GOWDY EXCORIATES DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATOR ABOUT MISCONDUCT

WHAT THE HELL DO YOU GET TO DO?

 

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well now recognize gentleman from south carolina mister gallery for five minutes

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thank miss chairman a administrator leonore if

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in agent stateside were soliciting a prostitute that was provided by

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a drug conspiracy he was investigating what would

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punishment would you recommend i cant recommend punishment I would just stop

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that would be thoroughly investigated in

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so good you're telling me nobody cares

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what the administrator of the DEA think should happen to an agent

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your powerless to express your opinion

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you have no first amendment right when it comes to who works

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for your agents I have expressed my opinion

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what was your ways what did you express what did you think laptop urgent action

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was

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last year I sent up

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email in a cent in memo to every employee

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in DEA and put them on notice that this kind of conduct

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but but now a question my question must have been ambiguous because I wasn't

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talking about future conduct I was talking about the past

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conduct what punishment did you record did you

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recommend for conduct that happened in the past

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under the civil service law I cannot recommend the penalty i cant intervene

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in the

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display reprocess I can you make a recommendation

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what what does it take to get what what what it hypothetically what would it

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take to get fired

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as a DEA agent because the ages I used to work with worried about using their

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cortical pick up dry cleaning

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they were actually worried about using their own GL OG the

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to pick up dry cleaning that they were worried about being discipline

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apparently that world is changed to you know whether any other prostitutes were

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underage

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I don't know that what would that

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impact up whatever recommendation you might have in terms of the sanction

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I don't recommend the sanction I can't fire

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I can't recommend a penalty there's a big guy

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that the deciding officials abide by

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and the

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have a they have a penalty guy

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that they look at and the penalty guide for this kind of activity

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is anything from reprimand to removal

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about security clearance do you have any impact over that

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whether or not an agent has a security clearance know there's

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adjudicative guidelines and that has 12 I'm not need

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I'm sleepy what power do you at

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you have to work with agents overhauled you can't disappoint and have no control

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and you have no control over the security clearance

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what the hell do you get to do what I can do

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is build on an improved

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mechanisms to make sure that the outcome is what we believe the outcome should be

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and that is what happened in car to Hannah

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that is what's gonna happen moving forward

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I you inspector-general horowitz II

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find that stunning arm let me ask you this

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did the did the agents know that the cartels

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we're providing the prostitute am what we found congressman from looking in the

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file was that they should have

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known given their train law enforcement agents

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and they were dealing with corrupt law enforcement local law enforcement that

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was providing them

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with the prostitutes as well as the very skips where they

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arm supposed to be investigating these Cardinals they were

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so they are receiving prostitutes

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from cartels that they were supposed to be investigating

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and she can't fire

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those aged you agree with her she can farm

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I i think is a matter I love

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title5 she can't directly intervene and fire

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fire them I do think one of the concerns we outlined in the report

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as to DEA and the other three agencies is how they

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adjudicate these cases they under charge them

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in some instances and so at the EA for example

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sexual harassment if you're charged with that

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there's only one punishment removal but if you're charged with conduct

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unbecoming

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or poor judgment which isn't even actually a category on

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then you've got a ranger penalties and so

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one of the issues you know the former prosecutors a charge the case

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I'm and that has a consequence what mister chairman

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I don't know what would need to be done but I

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like my friend from south carolina find it stunning

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that you can solicit prostitutes

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up administrator Lee nor do we know whether in the process wanna rage

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do we know it whether any of them were are too many human trafficking rings

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because the Bogota keys

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happened a decade ago there were no interviews with prostitutes

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on the cut more recent one the car to Hannah one

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it it did not a identify

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and age for the prostitute involved

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mister man I would just find it impossible to explain any reasonable

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minded person

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allen et je cannot be disciplined for soliciting prostitutes from drug cartels

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that they were ostensibly

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investigating I if the doc defined at stunning if the gentleman will yield

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if somebody murdered somebody the fire

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if someone murdered someone

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there would be criminal charges and that's how they'd be fired

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but

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if they work could you take away their security clearance the of the security

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programs

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can review security clearances and take their clearances

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just as they did with the cart three agents I

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in the Carnahan incident gentleman from south carolina de manual for just a

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second

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I'm so I heard you say there's one thing you could actually fire somebody for

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which is sexual harassment so if I get this crack mister always miss lang R

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if I flirt with a coworker in the office

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and that constitutes

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sexual harassment I can be fired but

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I can taken underage hooker

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from a cartel I'm investigating and you can't fire me is that

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it's that we're talking about here hatch congressman if you charge

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the offense removal is a possibility if you charge

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something less conduct unbecoming were

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poor judgment you don't charge what actually occurred

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that's when the the ability discipline is limited and that's the concern

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we found as you know in our report thank you

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thank the gentleman both from south

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