Leaders of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs asked DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen for a full account of DHS’s policies toward employees arrested, charged or convicted of felony violations. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)A Senate committee tasked with overseeing the Department of Homeland Security is probing its policy toward employees with criminal backgrounds, including how those employees gain or maintain access to classified material. ), the chairman and ranking minority-party member of the committee, respectively, also asked for the number of DHS employees involved in felony cases since 2016 and what actions the department took in response. Before The Post’s publication of the article on March 8, DHS officials said Curran was employed as an intelligence operations specialist at the department. Curran and a spokesman for DHS did not immediately respond to requests for comment Wednesday.

Source: Washington Post March 28, 2018 16:18 UTC