An internal investigation has confirmed Capitol Police entered Texas Republican Rep. Troy Nehls' office and photographed a whiteboard containing his sensitive legislative plans, concluding the officer who took the picture exercised "Questionable judgment" and the department lacked policies and training to avoid an unnecessary intrusion on lawmakers' constitutionally protected work.
Nehls told Just the News on Thursday night he was "a little disappointed" the internal probe did not resolve a key factual question about the officer's claim of why he entered the congressman's office over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
The officer reported that during a routine patrol he found the door to Nehls' office was wide open and "Nothing was being used to prop the door open." The officer said he entered to ensure there was no danger, then discovered the writings on the white board and photographed them because he considered them suspicious.
The inspector general reviewed the doors to Nehls' office and could not replicate keeping any of the congressman's office doors open without having them propped by an item.
"All three doors only opened inward into the office suite and would close automatically when released," the IG noted.
" The internal probe determined it was the only time the officer had ever used his department-issued smart phone to take a picture for investigative purposes, and it interviewed a supervisory sergeant who explained the department "does not investigate Members of Congress so he does not understand what" the officer "was thinking when he took the photograph of the whiteboard.
" The officer "exercised questionable judgment in concluding it was his duty or mission to read and photograph the written product of a congressman or the congressman's staff contained on a whiteboard in a private congressional office," the inspector general concluded.
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