Three former senior DOJ officials violated the department's Confidentiality and Media Contacts Policy by leaking nonpublic department investigative information to select reporters days before an election, the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General said Monday.
The report did not name the three officials, nor did it provide additional information on what information was leaked. It was also unclear when the information was leaked.
It did state that two news articles were published with the nonpublic DOJ investigative information.
"The OIG investigation also found that one of these three then Senior DOJ Officials violated the Confidentiality and Media Contacts Policy and DOJ's Social Media Policy by reposting through a DOJ social media account links to the news articles," the report said.
The OIG provided its report to the Office of the Deputy Attorney General and, because the report contained misconduct findings against attorneys, provided its report to the Professional Misconduct Review Unit for appropriate action.
The OIG also gave the report to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, "which has exclusive jurisdiction to investigate alleged Hatch Act violations, for its consideration of whether the conduct of these officials violated the Hatch Act," it stated.
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