Senator seeks details on Halloween party at DHS agency

[lanlady]

Source: Government Executive

A key Senate Republican has launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding a controversial Halloween party at the Homeland Security Department, in which an agency director approved of a racially insensitive costume.

Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs ranking member Susan Collins, R-Maine, said Wednesday she asked her staff to question Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Julie Myers over the incident.

Myers, whose confirmation is pending in the Senate, had judged an employee's costume of dreadlocks, dark makeup and prison stripes as the most original at an ICE party last week and even posed for photographs with the worker.

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[ixion]

1. wear a sensitive costume, they launch an investigation... launch an illegal invasion that kills

thousands? Zip. Zilch. Nada.

I think the costume was lame. However I don't know that it merits congressional investigation.

[Wink]

2. I was Michael Vick

...make-up and all. Went to a mostly black party too. Everyone liked my costume. They thought it was in absolutely bad taste...just as I planned.

[xxqqqzme]

3. My grandmother would say 'gag on a gnat, swallow

a camel.'

[tanyev]

4. If that won "most original", it must have been a really lame party.

[lonestarnot]

5. Katrina wasn't enough for them I guess.