Ok guys, so there is a HOT MESS going down at the Interior Department right now. It's important but a little complicated. I'm gonna attempt a thread to explain.

The story starts, as all great political dramas do, with Ben Carson.



On Friday, Carson sent an email to HUD staff saying that one of his political appointees was leaving to become inspector general at Interior, overseeing investigations into Ryan Zinke.

The implication of this email is that Zinke fired his existing inspector general—an independent position—to hire this new political appointee to investigate him. Zinke, btw, is under MAD investigations.



On Tuesday, the email leaks. People freak TF out.