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Department of Homeland Security DHS employees are calling on their leadership to rescind a recent directive instructing them to report colleagues they suspect of leaking sensitive government information, referring to it as an illegal gag order. In a letter Thu stanley cups rsday, the national council representing thousands of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services USCIS employees and the Government Accountability Project, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit, urged DHS leadership to withdraw the directive, saying it violates legal protections for government whistleblowers and creates a chilling stanley termoska effect for the workfor stanley cup ce. When an agency unlawfully gags its employees, it threatens Congress s ability to engage in oversight; hampers citizens right to know about serious misconduct and threats to public safety; and undermines policy-making that depends on the information of whistleblowers, the letter obtained by CBS News said. The letter, which was addressed to Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and Deputy Undersecretary for Management Randolph Alles, responded to a message Alles emailed to department employees on October 13.In his email, which was obtained by CBS News separately through a DHS source, Alles urged department employees to be careful when handling all classified, controlled unclassified and draft information, citing unidentified incidents of sensitive documents being leaked to unauthorized external entities. Unaut Wuhi Who is Elizabeth Warren s refugee guest for Trump s joint address
AP Photo/Matthew Cavanaugh LANCASTER, N.H. - Mitt Romney said Thursday that he has no current plans to release his income tax returns, prompting President Obama s re-election campaign to blast the former Massachusetts governor for not hewing to tradition for presidential candidates.Interest in Romney s tax situation has been piqued by a New York Times story this week that Romney continued to receive profits from his private equity firm Bain Capital through February 2009, a decade after leaving the firm. Because much of that money could be considered carried interest, it would be eligible for 15 percent tax rate on capital gains rathe stanley vattenflaska r than the 35 percent that the wealthy typically pay on income. I can tell you we follow the tax laws, and if there s an opportunity to save taxes, we like anybody else in this country will stanley mugg follow that opportunity, Romney told reporters. But we don t have any current plans to release tax returns, but never say never. We ll see what the future holds. That pro stanley water jug mpted a response from Obama for America spokesman Ben LaBolt accusing Romney of favoring secrecy over openness. Although federal law does not obligate Romney to disclose details of his investments, candidates in the past often have done so either voluntarily or after being requested to do so. By declaring that, if nominated, he would not release his income tax returns, Mitt Romney is defying a practice to whic
Department of Homeland Security DHS employees are calling on their leadership to rescind a recent directive instructing them to report colleagues they suspect of leaking sensitive government information, referring to it as an illegal gag order. In a letter Thu stanley cups rsday, the national council representing thousands of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services USCIS employees and the Government Accountability Project, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit, urged DHS leadership to withdraw the directive, saying it violates legal protections for government whistleblowers and creates a chilling stanley termoska effect for the workfor stanley cup ce. When an agency unlawfully gags its employees, it threatens Congress s ability to engage in oversight; hampers citizens right to know about serious misconduct and threats to public safety; and undermines policy-making that depends on the information of whistleblowers, the letter obtained by CBS News said. The letter, which was addressed to Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and Deputy Undersecretary for Management Randolph Alles, responded to a message Alles emailed to department employees on October 13.In his email, which was obtained by CBS News separately through a DHS source, Alles urged department employees to be careful when handling all classified, controlled unclassified and draft information, citing unidentified incidents of sensitive documents being leaked to unauthorized external entities. Unaut Wuhi Who is Elizabeth Warren s refugee guest for Trump s joint address
AP Photo/Matthew Cavanaugh LANCASTER, N.H. - Mitt Romney said Thursday that he has no current plans to release his income tax returns, prompting President Obama s re-election campaign to blast the former Massachusetts governor for not hewing to tradition for presidential candidates.Interest in Romney s tax situation has been piqued by a New York Times story this week that Romney continued to receive profits from his private equity firm Bain Capital through February 2009, a decade after leaving the firm. Because much of that money could be considered carried interest, it would be eligible for 15 percent tax rate on capital gains rathe stanley vattenflaska r than the 35 percent that the wealthy typically pay on income. I can tell you we follow the tax laws, and if there s an opportunity to save taxes, we like anybody else in this country will stanley mugg follow that opportunity, Romney told reporters. But we don t have any current plans to release tax returns, but never say never. We ll see what the future holds. That pro stanley water jug mpted a response from Obama for America spokesman Ben LaBolt accusing Romney of favoring secrecy over openness. Although federal law does not obligate Romney to disclose details of his investments, candidates in the past often have done so either voluntarily or after being requested to do so. By declaring that, if nominated, he would not release his income tax returns, Mitt Romney is defying a practice to whic