Federal Reports

The Reports Consolidation Act of 2000 (RCA)1 authorizes the CFTC to consolidate financial and performance management reports and to provide information in a meaningful and useful format for Congress, the President, and the public. The RCA requires the Inspector General to summarize the “most serious management and performance challenges facing the agency” and briefly assess the Agency’s progress in addressing those challenges.2 This memorandum fulfills our duties under the RCA.

Due to its classified nature, this report cannot be released publicly. The OIG has therefore released a 3-page public summary describing the information it contains.

Complainant is a Senior Special Agent with the United States Secret Service. For 20 years, he worked in a variety of investigative and protective duties until his security clearance was suspended in 2013. Complainant reported to us that the Secret Service suspended and revoked his security clearance as retaliation for disclosing alleged violations of federal antidiscrimination laws and for separately reporting abuse of authority on the part of his former Special Agent in Charge and other officials. As a result of these security clearance actions, the Secret Service placed Complainant on administrative leave and then indefinite suspension without pay, his current status with the agency.Underpinning this matter are allegations of whistleblower retaliation by adverse security clearance action. For the first time within the Department of Homeland Security, under Presidential Policy Directive 19 (PPD-19), we have substantiated an instance of retaliation related to security clearance actions.

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