“The United States Capitol Police is sworn to protect Members of Congress. If a Member’s office is left open and unsecured, without anyone inside the office, USCP officers are directed to document that and secure the office to ensure nobody can wander in and steal or do anything else nefarious. The weekend before Thanksgiving, one of our vigilant officers spotted the Congressman’s door was wide open. That Monday, USCP personnel personally followed up with the Congressman’s staff and determined no investigation or further action of any kind was needed. No case investigation was ever initiated or conducted into the Representative or his staff,” says U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger in a statement on Tuesday after the Federalist reported an Inspector General probe had been opened into the Capitol police department intel procedures, an article which framed far right Rep Troy Nehls’s freakout over a cop taking pics of his office as connected to the probe.

We actually can’t find any reliable, non-right wing propaganda source reporting on the existence of an investigation by the US Capitol Police Inspector General. National Zero apologizes for reporting the Federalist’s earlier assertion uncritically on Tuesday. Even if we framed it as “so fucking what?” there is still a difference between the a probe that takes 18 to 24 months to come up with nothing actually substantive by which time it will be long forgotten and no probe at all. Jerkoffs like Troy Nehls feed off of suspicion and the mere existence of an investigation and its on us to help make sure he starves. A correction has been added to the Tuesday morning National Zero article.