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?

 

Transcript English (Automatic Captions) 0:00 well now recognize gentleman from south carolina mister gallery for five minutes 0:04 thank miss chairman a administrator leonore if 0:07 in agent stateside were soliciting a prostitute that was provided by 0:12 a drug conspiracy he was investigating what would 0:16 punishment would you recommend i cant recommend punishment I would just stop 0:22 that would be thoroughly investigated in 0:25 so good you're telling me nobody cares 0:29 what the administrator of the DEA think should happen to an agent 0:34 your powerless to express your opinion 0:39 you have no first amendment right when it comes to who works 0:43 for your agents I have expressed my opinion 0:47 what was your ways what did you express what did you think laptop urgent action 0:51 was 0:52 last year I sent up 0:55 email in a cent in memo to every employee 0:59 in DEA and put them on notice that this kind of conduct 1:03 but but now a question my question must have been ambiguous because I wasn't 1:08 talking about future conduct I was talking about the past 1:12 conduct what punishment did you record did you 1:15 recommend for conduct that happened in the past 1:20 under the civil service law I cannot recommend the penalty i cant intervene 1:25 in the 1:26 display reprocess I can you make a recommendation 1:29 what what does it take to get what what what it hypothetically what would it 1:33 take to get fired 1:34 as a DEA agent because the ages I used to work with worried about using their 1:38 cortical pick up dry cleaning 1:40 they were actually worried about using their own GL OG the 1:44 to pick up dry cleaning that they were worried about being discipline 1:49 apparently that world is changed to you know whether any other prostitutes were 1:53 underage 1:54 I don't know that what would that 1:57 impact up whatever recommendation you might have in terms of the sanction 2:01 I don't recommend the sanction I can't fire 2:04 I can't recommend a penalty there's a big guy 2:08 that the deciding officials abide by 2:11 and the 2:12 have a they have a penalty guy 2:17 that they look at and the penalty guide for this kind of activity 2:21 is anything from reprimand to removal 2:24 about security clearance do you have any impact over that 2:28 whether or not an agent has a security clearance know there's 2:32 adjudicative guidelines and that has 12 I'm not need 2:36 I'm sleepy what power do you at 2:39 you have to work with agents overhauled you can't disappoint and have no control 2:43 and you have no control over the security clearance 2:46 what the hell do you get to do what I can do 2:49 is build on an improved 2:52 mechanisms to make sure that the outcome is what we believe the outcome should be 2:57 and that is what happened in car to Hannah 3:00 that is what's gonna happen moving forward 3:04 I you inspector-general horowitz II 3:08 find that stunning arm let me ask you this 3:12 did the did the agents know that the cartels 3:16 we're providing the prostitute am what we found congressman from looking in the 3:21 file was that they should have 3:22 known given their train law enforcement agents 3:26 and they were dealing with corrupt law enforcement local law enforcement that 3:29 was providing them 3:30 with the prostitutes as well as the very skips where they 3:34 arm supposed to be investigating these Cardinals they were 3:38 so they are receiving prostitutes 3:41 from cartels that they were supposed to be investigating 3:46 and she can't fire 3:49 those aged you agree with her she can farm 3:55 I i think is a matter I love 3:58 title5 she can't directly intervene and fire 4:02 fire them I do think one of the concerns we outlined in the report 4:07 as to DEA and the other three agencies is how they 4:11 adjudicate these cases they under charge them 4:14 in some instances and so at the EA for example 4:19 sexual harassment if you're charged with that 4:22 there's only one punishment removal but if you're charged with conduct 4:27 unbecoming 4:28 or poor judgment which isn't even actually a category on 4:32 then you've got a ranger penalties and so 4:36 one of the issues you know the former prosecutors a charge the case 4:39 I'm and that has a consequence what mister chairman 4:44 I don't know what would need to be done but I 4:48 like my friend from south carolina find it stunning 4:51 that you can solicit prostitutes 4:55 up administrator Lee nor do we know whether in the process wanna rage 4:59 do we know it whether any of them were are too many human trafficking rings 5:04 because the Bogota keys 5:07 happened a decade ago there were no interviews with prostitutes 5:11 on the cut more recent one the car to Hannah one 5:14 it it did not a identify 5:18 and age for the prostitute involved 5:21 mister man I would just find it impossible to explain any reasonable 5:26 minded person 5:27 allen et je cannot be disciplined for soliciting prostitutes from drug cartels 5:31 that they were ostensibly 5:33 investigating I if the doc defined at stunning if the gentleman will yield 5:38 if somebody murdered somebody the fire 5:42 if someone murdered someone 5:45 there would be criminal charges and that's how they'd be fired 5:49 but 5:51 if they work could you take away their security clearance the of the security 5:56 programs 5:57 can review security clearances and take their clearances 6:01 just as they did with the cart three agents I 6:05 in the Carnahan incident gentleman from south carolina de manual for just a 6:09 second 6:09 I'm so I heard you say there's one thing you could actually fire somebody for 6:13 which is sexual harassment so if I get this crack mister always miss lang R 6:17 if I flirt with a coworker in the office 6:22 and that constitutes 6:25 sexual harassment I can be fired but 6:29 I can taken underage hooker 6:32 from a cartel I'm investigating and you can't fire me is that 6:37 it's that we're talking about here hatch congressman if you charge 6:41 the offense removal is a possibility if you charge 6:46 something less conduct unbecoming were 6:49 poor judgment you don't charge what actually occurred 6:52 that's when the the ability discipline is limited and that's the concern 6:57 we found as you know in our report thank you 7:00 thank the gentleman both from south