• Pentagon eases approval process for urgent use of D.C. National Guard

    Pentagon eases approval process for urgent use of D.C. National Guard

    Dec 30, 2021 10:49 PM EST

    ... authorities. After January's riot, the Pentagon came under criticism by some for a slow response to requests for Guard assistance, although a Defense Department inspector general review concluded that senior defense officials had acted appropriately before and during the riot. The use of National Guard troops in the nation ...

  • Military still grappling with racism and extremism, investigation finds

    Military still grappling with racism and extremism, investigation finds

    Dec 29, 2021 10:06 PM EST

    ... Secretary of Defense, has taken immediate action to address extremism. In addition to the new guidelines on extremism, the Defense Department appointed an interim deputy inspector general for diversity and inclusion and military insider threats in April.WATCH: Exploring Hate: An inside look at anti-extremism training in the military ...

  • U.S. narcotics agent sentenced to 12 years in prison for conspiring with Colombian cartel

    U.S. narcotics agent sentenced to 12 years in prison for conspiring with Colombian cartel

    Dec 10, 2021 01:03 AM EST

    ... Irizarry's wife, Nathalia Gomez-Irizarry, and a Colombian customs worker, nobody else has been charged in the conspiracy. The U.S. Justice Department's Inspector General slammed the DEA in a report over the summer for failing to properly oversee what are supposed to be tightly monitored stings of ...

  • 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 EST

    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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    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 ...