House GOP: Commerce 'ambushed' whistleblower interview

Department of Commerce officials tried to block congressional investigators from speaking with whistleblowers claiming U.S. Census Bureau records were being fabricated, according to a report by House Republicans to be released Thursday.

“Commerce Department officials showed up uninvited to a transcribed interview with a Census Bureau employee and put her in a position where she was forced to risk retaliation if she excluded them from the interview,” according to a joint report by the House Committee on Government Oversight and the Joint Economic Committee of Congress.