A mid-level Department of Homeland Security official is currently on unpaid leave, faces revocation of her security clearance, and is almost certainly going to be looking for a new job after an incident in late January when she accidentally added a reporter from a DC-based right wing news outlet to an email thread about and prior to a series of ICE raids in the Denver area, NBC News reports.

It gets better: The official – unidentified by NBC's sources "out of fear she would face retaliation from members of the public who are pro-immigration enforcement" – realized her mistake and then spoke to the reporter who agreed not to publish any of the unclassified details of the planning for the raids, apparently not even after they were executed without incident. The official owned her mistake to colleagues, who let it go save for one who passed it along to dog-murderer Kristi Noem and bald asshole Tom Homan – during a time when both were having public tantrums over leaks supposedly having compromised other operations. Homan himself fucking told people in December that Chicago would be the main target for ICE raids and that made its way to a Wall Street Journal article. Then in February he told Axios others in the administration needed to stop publicly hyping raids in advance, almost certainly after getting screamed at by convicted felon President Trump.

Anyway, the DHS official has 30 days to appeal her security clearance revocation. To whom the NBC article doesn't say but it doesn't sound like it's going to end well for her or that she'll still be working there in a few months. They do however amply contrast her predicament with a certain other situation currently unfolding in the Trump regime but it's so fucking obvious that there's no point in putting it here. It's not like them letting some heads roll while guiltier ones stay on is anything new.