“It has been an honor and privilege to serve the American citizens for over 40 years,” he wrote. Under pressure from House Republicans, the inspector general’s office retracted 13 faulty reports and purged them from its website in 2017 and 2018. The inspector general’s office then spent 14 months examining what occurred. A graduate of the University of Scranton, he quickly rose through the ranks in the DHS inspector general’s office, which provides independent, fact-driven audits and investigations of the performance of the sprawling agency. The internal review did not find that Kelly was influenced by a personal relationship with anyone at the emergency response agency.

Source: Washington Post June 10, 2019 18:22 UTC