• Jan. 6 committee subpoenas Secret Service for erased text messages

    Jan. 6 committee subpoenas Secret Service for erased text messages

    Jul 16, 2022 04:02 PM EST

    ... Secret Service said it has provided a substantial number of emails and chat messages that included conversations and details related to Jan. 6 to the inspector general. It also said text messages from the Capitol Police requesting assistance on Jan. 6 were preserved and provided to the inspector general’s ...

  • Government watchdog says Secret Service agents deleted Jan. 6 text messages

    Government watchdog says Secret Service agents deleted Jan. 6 text messages

    Jul 15, 2022 03:41 PM EST

    ... inspector general's office were not given timely access to the material because of a review by Homeland Security attorneys had been raised by the inspector general before and is also not true, he said. "DHS has repeatedly and publicly debunked this allegation, including in response to OIG's last ...

  • News Wrap: White suspect in Buffalo supermarket massacre charged with federal hate crimes

    News Wrap: White suspect in Buffalo supermarket massacre charged with federal hate crimes

    Jul 14, 2022 10:55 PM EST

    ... It turns out that the us Secret Service erased text messages from January 5 and 6 shortly after an oversight official asked for them. The inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security tells Congress that it happened during equipment replacement. It's not clear what the messages said. A ...

  • News Wrap: American WNBA star Brittney Griner pleads guilty to drug possession in Russia

    News Wrap: American WNBA star Brittney Griner pleads guilty to drug possession in Russia

    Jul 07, 2022 10:50 PM EST

    ... already serving 22.5 years on state charges of murder and manslaughter. The commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service has asked the Treasury Department's inspector general to launch a probe into the intensive tax audits of two former top FBI officials. Yesterday, The New York Times reported that the ...

  • Lawyer who advised Trump on the 2020 election results says federal agents seized phone

    Lawyer who advised Trump on the 2020 election results says federal agents seized phone

    Jun 27, 2022 11:25 PM EST

    ... to overturn the election results. Eastman said the agents who approached him appeared to be serving a warrant from the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General. The action was disclosed in a filing in federal court in New Mexico in which Eastman challenges the legitimacy of the warrant, calling ...

  • News Wrap: FDA advisory panel recommends Moderna's vaccine for children ages 6 to 17

    News Wrap: FDA advisory panel recommends Moderna's vaccine for children ages 6 to 17

    Jun 14, 2022 10:55 PM EST

    ... funeral coverage. Today, investigators told Congress that officials put speed ahead of fraud prevention in the Trump and the Biden administration. Michael Horowitz, Justice Department Inspector General: No one is suggesting in the I.G. community, the oversight community you wait weeks or months. I just think there were several ...

  • WATCH: U.S. government failed to take prevent fraud in COVID-19 relief programs, Clyburn says

    WATCH: U.S. government failed to take prevent fraud in COVID-19 relief programs, Clyburn says

    Jun 14, 2022 01:35 PM EST

    ... suggested standardizing the data collected by states to make it easier for federal authorities to spot possibly fraudulent patterns. The SBA’s Office of the Inspector General has estimated that at least $80 billion distributed from the $400 billion EIDL program could have been fraudulent, much of it in scams ...

  • Olympic gymnasts sexually assaulted by Larry Nassar sue FBI for $1 billion

    Olympic gymnasts sexually assaulted by Larry Nassar sue FBI for $1 billion

    Jun 08, 2022 01:37 PM EST

    ... team doctor. But the FBI did not open a formal investigation or inform federal or state authorities in Michigan, according to the Justice Department's inspector general, an internal watchdog. Los Angeles agents in 2016 began a sexual tourism investigation against Nassar and interviewed several victims but also didn’t ...

  • Government watchdog report details Taliban’s rapid takeover in Afghanistan

    Government watchdog report details Taliban’s rapid takeover in Afghanistan

    May 18, 2022 10:35 PM EST

    ... of the Joint Chiefs of Staff called a strategic defeat. Why? The first U.S. government report to answer that question is from the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, John Sopko, who joins me now. Welcome back to... John Sopko, Special Spector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction: Pleasure to be ...

  • WATCH: GOP splinters over $40 billion supplemental funding for Ukraine

    WATCH: GOP splinters over $40 billion supplemental funding for Ukraine

    May 16, 2022 06:25 PM EST

    ... U.S. strategy ahead. Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky single-handedly blocked a vote on the latest package last week as he demanded an inspector general's report on how the money is being spent.The libertarian-leaning Paul routinely blocks spending bills with a filibuster, but he is ...