NJ-GOV: N.J. congressional Dems demand investigation into release of Sherrill records [View all]

An improper release of Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-Montclair)’s military personnel records to her GOP opponent’s campaign has caught the attention of New Jersey’s House and Senate Democrats, who are demanding a congressional investigation into the snafu.

CBS News reported earlier today that when a surrogate for Jack Ciattarelli’s campaign for governor asked the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) for Sherrill’s records, he was given an almost entirely unredacted file. Among the details included in the records he received were Sherrill’s Social Security number and her and her parents’ home addresses.

Rep. Frank Pallone (D-Long Branch), leading a letter alongside New Jersey’s two Democratic senators and seven other Democratic representatives (excluding Sherrill herself), asked that the Armed Services, Oversight, and Veterans’ Affairs Committees in both chambers of Congress investigate what the members characterized as a “remarkable Trump administration failure.”

“This is a dangerous and corrupt attempt to weaponize the federal government for political purposes and meddle in New Jersey’s fall elections,” the letter states. “Determining all individuals involved in this illegal act and punishing them to the fullest extent of the law is essential to restoring public trust and reassuring current and former servicemembers that their privacy will not be violated by their own government, nor will their military service be misconstrued for partisan gain.”




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