• 'We mean it': FBI takes on sexual misconduct in its ranks

    'We mean it': FBI takes on sexual misconduct in its ranks

    Jun 11, 2021 10:06 PM EST

    ... of a class-action lawsuit alleging systemic sexual harassment at the FBI’s training academy in Quantico, Virginia. And just last month, the Office of Inspector General released a new report to AP alleging an assistant special agent in charge groped a female colleague at an after-work event — a ...

  • News Wrap: U.S. secures deal with Pfizer to send millions of vaccine doses overseas

    News Wrap: U.S. secures deal with Pfizer to send millions of vaccine doses overseas

    Jun 09, 2021 10:50 PM EST

    ... last June so that President Trump could stage a photo for the press at a nearby church. A new report from the Interior Department's inspector general maintained that the area was cleared due to prior plans to install new fencing. The demonstration was largely peaceful before police fired tear ...

  • Justice Department probing postmaster over fundraising

    Justice Department probing postmaster over fundraising

    Jun 03, 2021 06:17 PM EST

    ... the investigation. "Mr. DeJoy fully cooperated with and answered the questions posed by Congress regarding these matters. The same is true of the Postal Service Inspector General's inquiry which after a thorough investigation gave Mr. DeJoy a clean bill of health on his disclosure and divestment issues. He expects ...

  • AP report: Deep-rooted racism and discrimination permeate U.S. military

    AP report: Deep-rooted racism and discrimination permeate U.S. military

    May 27, 2021 09:05 PM EST

    ... is named after a segregationist?The bill also lays out tracking mechanisms and reporting requirements for supremacist, extremist and criminal gang activity, and creates an inspector general to oversee diversity and inclusion efforts. When Stephanie Davis was medically retired by the Air Force in 2019 after more than two decades ...

  • Watchdog says U.S. forced deported parents to leave kids behind

    Watchdog says U.S. forced deported parents to leave kids behind

    May 24, 2021 10:02 PM EST

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A government watchdog says the Trump administration, under its practice of separating families at the border, forced migrant parents to leave the U.S. without their children, contradicting claims by officials that parents were willingly leaving them behind. The Department of Homeland Security Inspector General said in a ...

  • Epstein guards to skirt jail time in deal with prosecutors

    Epstein guards to skirt jail time in deal with prosecutors

    May 22, 2021 01:04 AM EST

    ... be required to complete 100 hours of community service and would be required to fully cooperate with an ongoing probe by the Justice Department's inspector general, it says. The two have "admitted that they 'willfully and knowingly completed materially false count and round slips regarding required counts and rounds ...

  • WATCH: Watchdog says Capitol Police deficient at monitoring threats

    WATCH: Watchdog says Capitol Police deficient at monitoring threats

    May 10, 2021 07:07 PM EST

    ... terrorist attack on our nation’s Capitol,” Maloney said in a statement.The House Administration Committee will also hear this week from Christopher Failla, the inspector general for the architect of the Capitol, who is one of three officials sitting on a board that oversees the Capitol Police. Rep. Rosa ...

  • New White House panel aims to separate science and politics

    New White House panel aims to separate science and politics

    May 10, 2021 03:45 PM EST

    ... of Trump’s — to alter the official National Hurricane Center warning map to indicate Alabama could be in the path of the storm. A 2020 inspector general report found the administration had violated scientific integrity rules. The Sharpiegate case revealed flaws in the scientific integrity system set up in 2009 ...

  • U.S. sends more warplanes to protect pullout from Afghanistan

    U.S. sends more warplanes to protect pullout from Afghanistan

    May 06, 2021 09:20 PM EST

    "We haven't figured that out 100% yet," Milley said. Milley said Afghanistan's air force is central to the strategy for holding off the Taliban, but the durability of those planes is in some doubt. The U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction said in an April ...

  • Officials report a steep drop in national security surveillance during pandemic

    Officials report a steep drop in national security surveillance during pandemic

    Apr 30, 2021 08:28 PM EST

    ... s use of its authority to eavesdrop on subjects in terrorism and espionage investigations came under intense scrutiny in late 2019 after the Justice Department inspector general revealed significant errors and omissions in a series of applications targeting former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page during the investigation into Russian election ...