An office building of the Department of the Interior, where 12 percent of the agency’s workers in the Senior Executive Service were transferred. The Washington Post obtained a copy of the report from two separate sources before investigators published it later on Wednesday. “When we asked the ERB members who in the Department leadership ordered the reassignment of senior executives, no one could provide an answer,” the report read. In a statement, Interior spokeswoman Heather Swift said the inspector general report validated the department’s personnel decisions. But at least one of member of the SES who was reassigned in Zinke’s mass transfer held up internal investigators’ findings as an example of ineptitude at Trump’s Interior Department.

Source: Washington Post April 11, 2018 16:29 UTC