• WATCH: Senate committee hearing on oversight of U.S. Capitol Police after Jan. 6 insurrection

    WATCH: Senate committee hearing on oversight of U.S. Capitol Police after Jan. 6 insurrection

    Dec 07, 2021 03:01 PM EDT

    The Senate Rules and Administration Committee held a hearing on U.S. Capitol Police oversight following the Jan. 6 Capital Insurrection. Watch the hearing in the player above. USCP Inspector General Michael Bolton testified at the hearing on the attack that followed then-President Donald Trump's remarks at a ...

  • ‘We just feel it’: Racism plagues U.S. military academies

    ‘We just feel it’: Racism plagues U.S. military academies

    Dec 03, 2021 04:07 PM EDT

    ... incidents while at the academy, fearing it would draw unwanted scrutiny to him not being a “perfect cadet,” however minor his shortcomings might be. An inspector general’s report last year found the Coast Guard Academy had mishandled nearly a dozen race-based harassment allegations between 2013 and 2018 and ...

  • White supremacist prison guards work with impunity in Florida

    White supremacist prison guards work with impunity in Florida

    Nov 19, 2021 05:10 PM EDT

    ... lip was split open and his face swollen. The inmate’s family requested anonymity for fear of retaliation.His mother reported the incident to the Inspector General's office on Oct. 1 and requested a wellness check on him. The office sent an investigator to the facility to interview her ...

  • Durbin calls for removal of federal prisons director amid 'mounting crises'

    Durbin calls for removal of federal prisons director amid 'mounting crises'

    Nov 16, 2021 05:03 PM EDT

    ... in our federal prisons, and we urgently need to fix it. That effort must start with new leadership.” Separately on Tuesday, the Justice Department’s inspector general found that the Bureau of Prisons had stalled the development of more than 30 agency policies because agency officials have been refusing to ...

  • What we know about a 2019 U.S. airstrike in Syria and its alleged cover-up

    What we know about a 2019 U.S. airstrike in Syria and its alleged cover-up

    Nov 15, 2021 11:40 PM EDT

    ... At nearly every step threat, military made moves that concealed the strike." Why do you write that? Dave Philipps: When the report went to the inspector general's office, the inspector general also thought, oh, my gosh, this is a really horrendous event, and it needs to be independently investigated ...

  • Santos confirmed as first person of color to lead Census Bureau

    Santos confirmed as first person of color to lead Census Bureau

    Nov 04, 2021 08:50 PM EDT

    ... also a Trump appointee, set a deadline for bureau statisticians to provide him with a technical report on the effort, according to the Office of Inspector General. The effort to gather citizenship information was abandoned a short time later. At the time, Dillingham described the events as a misunderstanding and ...

  • What we know about Taliban rule in Afghanistan, classified documents about the U.S. war

    What we know about Taliban rule in Afghanistan, classified documents about the U.S. war

    Oct 29, 2021 10:45 PM EDT

    John Sopko, Special Inspector General For Afghanistan Reconstruction: That information almost certainly would have benefited Congress and the public in assessing whether progress was being made in Afghanistan, and, more importantly, whether we should have ended our efforts there earlier. Yet SIGAR was forced to relegate all of this information ...

  • Senate report details Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election that he lost

    Senate report details Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election that he lost

    Oct 07, 2021 04:29 PM EDT

    ... how reliant the fragile U.S. election system is on the integrity of government officials. Trump's effort, now the subject of a Justice Department inspector general investigation, did not succeed and Biden took office on Jan. 20. Even so, the false claims over the election have fractured the nation ...

  • When the hospital emergency room is inundated with knee-deep water

    When the hospital emergency room is inundated with knee-deep water

    Sep 28, 2021 09:14 PM EDT

    ... and put greater responsibility on local communities to manage and reduce their flood risk. In 2017, the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General criticized the nation’s flood maps as too often being outdated and incorrect. “FEMA needs to improve its management and oversight of flood ...

  • Simone Biles, Aly Raisman and other gymnasts on how FBI 'betrayed' them, 'enabled' Nassar

    Simone Biles, Aly Raisman and other gymnasts on how FBI 'betrayed' them, 'enabled' Nassar

    Sep 15, 2021 10:45 PM EDT

    Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX): If FBI did so little in the investigation that involved world-class athletes, what hope can an average American have? Amna Nawaz: The FBI's failures were laid out in a July report from the Justice Department's inspector general. It found FBI field offices ...