The House Oversight Committee just announced that within hours after a Border Chief Patrol Agent sat down with them for a transcribed interview, Customs and Border Protection punished him by reassigning him to another area which Oversight Republicans describe as “vague, indefinite, and temporary headquarters assignment.”

Here’s the announcement:

What they wrote in full:

We have learned that hours after Gregory K. Bovino, Chief Patrol Agent of the El Centro Border Patrol Sector, sat with our committee for a voluntary transcribed interview, Chief Bovino was relieved of his command over the El Centro Sector and was reassigned to a vague, indefinite, and temporary headquarters assignment.

Given the suspicious timing of the reassignment coinciding with Chief Bovino’s cooperation with a Congressional inquiry, our committee, along with @HomelandGOP, is demanding @CBP account for the current status of Chief Bovino’s employment and assignment within the U.S. Border Patrol, provide documents and communications relevant to any reassignment and the reasons for any related employment action, and brief the committee on this matter.

Any retaliation against witnesses who cooperate with Congressional inquiries will not be tolerated, especially when that retaliation may have been committed by government officials.

Of course CBP is going to claim they had legitimate justification to do reassign Bovino because they don’t want it to look like retaliation. But House Republicans are making such a splash with all the revelations they’ve been releasing to the public that this has undoubtedly gotten under the skin of the Biden administration, and they are trying to prevent more revelations that could hurt the administration or Biden in his reelection campaign.

We’ve seen how Biden’s henchmen control the DOJ with a heavily partisan grip. What’s happening with Mayorkas and DHS is undoubtedly the exact the same thing.