Interior Department watchdog drops probe of threat to Alaska senator on healthcare

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The Interior Department's inspector general said it dropped a probe into a reported threat by the agency's head, Ryan Zinke, to Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska to harm her state over her opposition to her party's efforts to repeal Obamacare.In a letter on Tuesday to two congressmen who called for the probe, Interior Deputy Inspector General Mary Kendall said "further investigation would prove unproductive" after Murkowski and Alaska's other senator, Republican Dan Sullivan, both declined to be interviewed or provide statements on the matter.

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