Her email was forwarded to the proper person, and she was informed the username she provided was wrong.
Wilde was given the correct username, which hadn’t been used to login for more than a month, but still reported experiencing issues.
Wilde never called and never followed up on the email, opting instead to just not conduct the background checks.
Upon learning of Wilde’s negligence, the department “immediately completed full background checks” on the applications in question and ended up revoking 291 of them.
Putnam, the head of the Agriculture Department, is currently making a run for governor of the state of Florida.
In 2017, he tweeted that he’s a “proud NRA sellout” and has made guns a central issue of his campaign.
That’s probably pretty easy to accomplish when you’re just skipping an entire step of scrutiny for thousands of applications. »