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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Jul 25, 2020, 09:26 PM Jul 2020

House lawmakers to launch probe into DHS excluding NY from Trusted Traveler Program

Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee announced Saturday that they are launching an investigation into the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after the agency dmitted to making inaccurate statements regarding its decision to bar New York residents from participating in the Trusted Traveler Program (TTP).

The TTP streamlines customer check-ins through security at airports and international borders.

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Mo.), chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, and Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-N.Y.), chairwoman of the border security subcommittee, sent a letter to acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf and Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) John Wagner requesting interviews and documents related to the statements they made in front of the committee and in court.

"The decision to exclude New York from Trusted Traveler programs always appeared to be political retribution and now we know it was," Thompson and Rice said in a statement.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-lawmakers-to-launch-probe-into-dhs-excluding-ny-from-trusted-traveler-program/ar-BB17bI08?li=BBnbfcQ&ocid=DELLDHP

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House lawmakers to launch probe into DHS excluding NY from Trusted Traveler Program (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2020 OP
They have a whole lot more to investigate if even half what is being reported is true. Thomas Hurt Jul 2020 #1

Thomas Hurt

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1. They have a whole lot more to investigate if even half what is being reported is true.
Sat Jul 25, 2020, 09:54 PM
Jul 2020

Do the acting agency heads even have authority to do anything, civil rights violations ordered by them, felonies committed by their thugs, black sites, hopefully that is all in the queue.

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