TL;DR by CuriousCats.ai
- Interior officials allegedly concealed information about the Lincoln Memorial’s reflecting pool.
- Sens. Whitehouse and Heinrich called for an immediate investigation into whether Interior officials misled the president and others about the source of the damage.
- Whitehouse and Heinrich wrote to the inspector general’s office with questions about how the vandalism lie was cooked up and how it reached President Trump’s desk.
- A spokesman for the inspector general declined to comment; the IG is not bound to open an investigation.
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“Sens. Whitehouse and Heinrich, top Democrats on the Environment and Public Works and Energy and Natural Resources committees, called Tuesday for an immediate investigation into whether Interior officials misled the president. They questioned how the vandalism lie was cooked up and whether it originated from the White House.”
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“The top Senate Democrats on two committees that oversee the Interior Department have asked the agency’s inspector general to investigate whether Interior officials wrongly concealed information about of the Lincoln Memorial’s reflecting pool.”
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