The Agriculture Department abruptly ordered congressional auditors to leave its headquarters and told its employees not to cooperate with them......The auditors were seeking information for an ongoing audit on Agriculture's office of civil rights and its handling of discrimination complaints. Specifically, they were investigating allegations that the department had previously provided false information for the audit...
...The auditors refused to allow USDA lawyers to be present for the interviews, and after allowing one employee to talk, department officials stopped the interviews and told the investigators to leave the building, Kelly said.
"We are not interested in having our employees potentially put themselves at risk when they have not yet been advised of their rights and when we were not allowed to provide counsel," Kelly said. "We also pointed out to them that while they hold themselves out to be criminal investigators, GAO is an arm of Congress and has no authority to investigate violations of criminal law."
Criminal? Cheney-Bush appointees? How...how could that be possible?
"We don't have anything to hide," Kelly said.
Of course you don't.
Heh.
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