Remember back when Doctor-Congresswoman Shelley Sekula-Gibbs headed off to Washington, managed to treat the existing Congressional staff so poorly they resigned, and then made all sorts of reckless accusations about that staff?
As the Chronicle‘s Alan Bernstein reports, none of those wild accusations actually proved to be true:
House officials now say their investigation of her charge found no wrongdoing by the six aides.
“Our computer security analysts did look into then-Rep. Sekula Gibbs’ concerns around the integrity of computers in the office she briefly occupied and found no traces of purposeful erasure of data,” Jeff Ventura, spokesman for the Office of the House Chief Administrative Officer, told the Houston Chronicle. “It was determined that any lost data may have been inadvertent or the result of standard methodology employed when any member of Congress transitions to another.”
In response to that written statement, Sekula Gibbs, who is running for the seat again in the Republican primary, said this week that with the help of House technology experts, she was able to recover most of the material she had accused the staff of deleting on purpose.
She had no further comment about the House findings.
An apology would have been in order, although silence from the Doctor-FormerCongresswoman is not a bad consolation prize.
