... report found broad problems within Capitol Police. Michael A. Bolton: Those areas are intelligence, training, operational planning, and a culture change. Lisa Desjardins: Michael Bolton, inspector general for the Capitol Police, has spent the past three months looking at the failures of January 6, when pro-Trump and anti-government ...
... pointing to inadequate training and outdated weaponry as among several urgent problems facing the force. Watch the hearing in the video player above. Capitol Police Inspector General Michael A. Bolton has issued confidential monthly reports on the force's missteps since the siege, when hundreds of President Donald Trump's ...
... A scathing new report blames the leadership of Capitol Police for a raft of failures before January 6. In widely reported findings, the force's inspector general cites equipment shortages and expired weapons, riot shields that shattered upon impact as police battled hundreds of rioters, and a lack of intelligence ...
... and delaying the peaceful transfer of power, the hallmark of American democracy. Lawmakers, protected to this day by National Guard troops, will hear from the inspector general of the Capitol Police this coming week. “Any minute that we lost, I need to know why,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., chair ...
... 2018 also found staff at another camp at Homestead, Florida, were not given routine screenings to rule out allegations of child abuse or neglect. HHS’ inspector general warned then that FBI fingerprint checks “provide a unique safeguard” over most commercial background checks that search a person’s name. “While the ...
Kirsten Gillibrand: I fully support that. First of all, we have heard from victim advocates that they have been bullied, that they have been pressured, that they have not been given the authority they need to actually support their client by taking a case, for example, to the inspector general ...
... consider what they are doing to prevent, detect, and stamp out toxic sexual harassment anywhere it occurs in their agencies." In a letter to acting Inspector General Sean O'Donnell last November, Speier and Gillibrand questioned why the investigation was taking so long. The Defense Department's inspector general first ...
... by Andrea Goldstein, a Navy veteran and Takano staffer. Goldstein said a male veteran harassed and assaulted her at a VA facility. A December 2020 Inspector General report found that Wilkie, as secretary, had set a tone that was “at minimum unprofessional and at worst provided the basis for VA ...
... suffering through the double impact of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and associated job losses," she added. On Wednesday, the Labor Department's Office of the Inspector General released a report that said it had found $5.4 billion in fraudulent payments between March and October of 2020. While that is ...
... an email. Garland said “there were certainly serious problems” with applications for surveillance during the FBI’s Russia investigation, and that he intended as attorney general to speak more deeply about the issue with the Justice Department’s inspector general and with the FBI director. “I am always concerned and ...
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