The Trump-appoined IG made the surprising admission during testimony before the Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability subcommittee on Tuesday.
scathing letter
“We write to you today calling on you to immediately resign from your position as Inspector General. Because of your admission to your ‘normal practice’ of deleting ‘business’ text messages from your government-issued phone — willful and intentional acts that may constitute criminal violations of the Federal Records Act,” the lawmakers wrote.
Ivey and Thompson argue in the letter that it is not Cuffari’s “call to make” in determining whether his text messages are federal records that must legally be retained.
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