3/28/2017 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Mail - Fwd: \?rgin Islands Fwd: Virgin Islands 1 message Cousins, Debbie Jorjani, Daniel Tue, Mar 28. 2017 at 9:48 AM To: "Cousins. Debbie" Cc: Edward Keable Debbie - Please add this email traffic to the file for this trip. Thank you. Dan Fon/varded message From: Roddy. Russell Date: Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 9:15 AM Subject: Re: Virgin Islands To: Daniel Jorjani CC: Scott Hommel Douglas Domenech Megan Bloomgren Thanks, Dan. I should have considered that I probably shouldn't have been included and not taken it personally. Yesterday was a long. frustrating day at times here. There is a lot of "probably" this and "maybe" that per events different contacts saying different things. They have put in a lot of hard work here and I understand the depth of their planning. It is just hard for me to be dealing with probably's and maybe's at this point and not be able to totally control the situation. i'm sure things will run smoothly in the long run. One other thought per travel. had I not arrived when I did, I would have missed a yesterday of 30 or more people which included representatives from security, the Governor's Office. and the Prime Minister's Office (who arrived earlier than I did), etc. Thanks for the reply back. Rusty On Tue, Mar 28. 2017 at 6:44 AM. Daniel Jorjani wrote: Rusty - Not your fault. Tim Nigborowicz should have prepared the paperwork in advance. $4,000 for a 6-day advance in the Virgin Islands is not a small sun and will draw the OlG's attention. (OlG's love travel investigations. They are easy to document and spin in a negative way.) Doug and I know this because we have both worked for and successfully protected DOI PASs who have undergone OIG travel investigations. Regarding the request itself, asking for "approval" after you departed reflects poorly on Tim. We not only have to do things correctly. we must also document that we are doing them correctly. Otherwise, it will be easy for the OIG or the Washington Post to spin things negatively. As I said to you last week. you have a difficult job and I appreciate your hard work. Nevertheless, at the end of the day ourjob is to protect the Secretary. Documenting that we are carefully stewarding public resources is a key part of that effort. Sorry that you weren't in my response to Tim or the follow-up email with Gen Law, but part of the process was determining whether Tim had actually produced a justification other than his brief after-the-fact email included in Debbie's request. Adding Scott, Doug, and Meg to keep in loop. (Will fonrvard email traffic to them.) Will also place this email in the file, so that we have a record in place documenting that we tried to do this in a 10,000% compliant manner. 1/2