The conduct of these senior officials raised serious questions about the partisan political motivation for their actions in proximity to the 2020 election.
The report found the officials improperly shared details with two media outlets about the department's plans to collect data on COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes.
One of the officials wrote in a text obtained by investigators, 'The leak will be our last play on them before the election but it's a big one.'
There is a kind of poison running through every part of our political institutions. Even in the deepest corners of the vast bureaucracy, it's there, waiting for a chance to sicken.
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