A whistleblower complaint filed late last month accuses Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott of abusing his authority to order investigations of direct subordinates and to target a senior Border Patrol official with whom he had clashed internally.
A career CBP employee in the commissioner’s office with firsthand knowledge of internal tensions filed the five-page complaint to the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general on Feb. 25. The complaint outlined what three sources within the Department of Homeland Security described to the Washington Examiner as Scott lashing out over “personal or political vendettas” against his subordinates.
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