“Mr. Murphy is, to put it simply, a dedicated civil servant, who had a worthy career before the recent events that led to the submission of this complaint to the Office of the Inspector General” of the DSI, it was stated in the text.
“Before the current circumstances, he never even had a negative report on his fitness in his professional career in the US government,” he said.
In the complaint, it was alleged that the former DSI secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, the current acting secretary, Chad Wolf, and his deputy, Ken Cuccinelli, repeatedly pressured him to alter the assessments of the information worked in order to corroborate the Trump administration policies or to avoid offending him.
One example given was that Nielsen and his deputies pressured him to exaggerate the number of immigrants with links to terrorism who had been detained on the southern border. Murphy accused her of mentioning high false numbers during a testimony in Congress.
The complainant also alleged that Wolf, who was appointed as secretary of the ISD by Trump, instructed Murphy to stop making information assessments about the threat of Russian interference in the US, because that “gave the president a bad look.”
Murphy said he rejected the statement, because accepting it would be a violation of his duties.
He added that Cuccinelli ordered him to modify a report on white supremacy, so that this threat would be more diluted, and to include information on leftist groups, reproducing the topics of the White House speech on the clashes following the death of George Floyd .
A copy of the complaint was released today by Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff of the House of Representatives Information Committee.
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