Senate Chair demands records from former DHS adviser
Senator Maggie Hassan, the incoming chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, has written to former Department of Homeland Security adviser Corey Lewandowski demanding that he preserve all records from his time at the agency. The letter, obtained by ABC News, signals a forthcoming probe into Lewandowski’s activities while he served as the de‑facto chief of staff for former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.
In the letter, Hassan states that the committee will use its full authority—including compulsory process—to expose corruption and waste. She renews her request that Lewandowski preserve all relevant records and warns that if any records are unavailable when the committee requests them, the committee will want to understand how and when that occurred.
Lewandowski has been a target for oversight since leaving the DHS earlier this year. The Justice Department is investigating the agency’s contracting activities in the first year of the second Trump administration and has referred Lewandowski’s conduct to the inspector general. The investigation is in its early stages, and Lewandowski has not been contacted by the DOJ.
“Mr. Lewandowski has not been contacted by the Justice Department regarding any investigation, and he denies any wrongdoing when he was proudly serving his country in a voluntary capacity,” a lawyer for Lewandowski said in a post on X.
Lewandowski’s lawyer also told the committee that there was “no legal obligation” to comply with a similar letter Hassan sent in June when Democrats were in the minority. In the new letter, Hassan notes that she was pleased to hear Lewandowski say on talk radio that he was “happy to have any conversations with anybody” because he “has nothing to hide,” and that she looks forward to having those conversations on the record
<small>Source: Yahoo News — read the original story there.</small>
