• 4 veterans issues House leaders want to tackle in the new Congress

    4 veterans issues House leaders want to tackle in the new Congress

    Mar 01, 2021 05:07 PM EST

    ... 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 ...

  • Biden directive expands jobless aid to more unemployed

    Biden directive expands jobless aid to more unemployed

    Feb 26, 2021 12:32 AM EST

    ... 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 ...

  • WATCH: AG nominee Merrick Garland testifies during Senate confirmation hearing

    WATCH: AG nominee Merrick Garland testifies during Senate confirmation hearing

    Feb 22, 2021 01:59 PM EST

    ... 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 ...

  • Air Force orders new review into racial, ethnic disparities

    Air Force orders new review into racial, ethnic disparities

    Feb 19, 2021 11:09 PM EST

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force inspector general will do a second investigation into racial and ethnic disparities across the force, service leaders said Friday, expanding the review to include gender and additional racial categories such as Asian and American Indian. The latest review comes just two months after the IG ...

  • Report slams Chicago response to unrest after Floyd's death

    Report slams Chicago response to unrest after Floyd's death

    Feb 18, 2021 08:15 PM EST

    ... officers took steps to cover up their actions during the unrest, a watchdog agency said in a blistering report released Thursday. Chicago's Office of Inspector General pinned much of the blame on the police department's "senior leadership," saying it failed front-line officers and the public for the ...

  • Audit raises concerns about wildfire risks at U.S. nuclear lab

    Audit raises concerns about wildfire risks at U.S. nuclear lab

    Feb 10, 2021 08:55 PM EST

    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — One of the nation's premier nuclear laboratories isn't taking the necessary precautions to guard against wildfires, according to an audit by the U.S. Energy Department's inspector general. The report comes as wildfire risks intensify across the drought-stricken U.S. West. Climatologists ...

  • Why reforming the U.S. approach to deportations could be Biden's biggest immigration challenge

    Why reforming the U.S. approach to deportations could be Biden's biggest immigration challenge

    Feb 03, 2021 10:51 PM EST

    ... and the union representing ICE, as reported by Buzzfeed News, could hamper his efforts. In a letter sent to Congressional committees and the department’s inspector general, a whistleblower alleged that these agreements “confer on the union the ability to indefinitely delay changes to immigration enforcement policies and practices as ...

  • WATCH: Senate votes to confirm Alejandro Mayorkas, Biden's homeland security nominee

    WATCH: Senate votes to confirm Alejandro Mayorkas, Biden's homeland security nominee

    Feb 02, 2021 09:14 PM EST

    ... if he can do that, then we can still maintain border security.” At Mayorkas' confirmation hearing, senators raised the 2015 report by the Office of Inspector General that criticized him for his management of a program that granted U.S. residency to foreign investors. The investigation found he created an ...

  • Ex-FBI lawyer given probation for Russia probe actions

    Ex-FBI lawyer given probation for Russia probe actions

    Jan 29, 2021 11:11 PM EST

    ... to have been charged with any wrongdoing. The surveillance application process Clinesmith was part of was nonetheless tainted by major problems, with a Justice Department inspector general report identifying dozens of errors and omissions in the four warrant applications filed with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Even so, that aspect ...

  • AP report: DOJ rescinds 'zero tolerance' immigration rule

    AP report: DOJ rescinds 'zero tolerance' immigration rule

    Jan 26, 2021 11:13 PM EST

    ... regulation changes. The policy was a disaster; there was no system created to reunite children with their families. A report from the Justice Department's inspector general, released earlier this month, found that the policy led to a $227 million funding shortfall. Children suffered lasting emotional damage from the separations ...