• Watchdog criticizes NYPD methods at Floyd protests for stoking conflict

    Watchdog criticizes NYPD methods at Floyd protests for stoking conflict

    Dec 18, 2020 09:57 PM EDT

    NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department was caught off guard by the size of the spring protests after the killing of George Floyd and resorted to aggressive disorder control methods that stoked tensions and stifled free speech, the city's inspector general said in a report released Friday ...

  • Watchdog clears Pompeo's wife of travel ethics charges

    Watchdog clears Pompeo's wife of travel ethics charges

    Dec 10, 2020 10:58 PM EDT

    ... with the recommendation, but Under Secretary of State for Management Brian Bulatao and State Department Counselor Ulrich Brechbuhl, both longtime friends of Pompeo, slammed the inspector general for conducting the investigation in the first place.Bulatao said he had verbally approved the trips for which the inspector general could not ...

  • WATCH: Biden formally introduces national security team

    WATCH: Biden formally introduces national security team

    Nov 24, 2020 04:38 PM EDT

    ... Senate was controlled by Democrats then, and all Senate Republicans voted against Mayorkas’ confirmation mainly because he was then under investigation by the Obama-appointed inspector general in that department. At the time, the Senate historian’s office said it was unprecedented for the Senate to vote on a nominee ...

  • U.S. troop withdrawal rattles Afghan allies and adversaries alike

    U.S. troop withdrawal rattles Afghan allies and adversaries alike

    Nov 18, 2020 08:54 PM EDT

    ... forces to hold territory against Taliban onslaughts. Afghanistan's security forces also have been degraded by corruption. According to an August report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, about half of all police in the Taliban strongholds of the southern provinces use drugs and up to 70 percent ...

  • Military voters fear they're part of Trump campaign's unsupported fraud claim

    Military voters fear they're part of Trump campaign's unsupported fraud claim

    Nov 13, 2020 06:30 PM EDT

    ... Another active probe in Pennsylvania, meanwhile, appears to have fallen apart after the employee recanted the allegations in an interview with the postal service’s inspector general’s office, people familiar with the matter said. It is a federal crime to make a materially false statement to a federal agent ...

  • WATCH: Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe testifies on oversight of Russia investigation

    WATCH: Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe testifies on oversight of Russia investigation

    Nov 10, 2020 04:11 PM EDT

    ... the Russia investigation has centered on flaws in applications to surveil former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. Those mistakes were significant, but a Justice Department inspector general report from last year nonetheless concluded that the investigation was opened for a valid purpose and did not find evidence of partisan bias ...

  • Census takers say they were told to enter false information

    Census takers say they were told to enter false information

    Nov 07, 2020 08:07 PM EDT

    For this year's census, the Office of Inspector General, says it’s evaluating the quality of the data collected. So far, statisticians have not uncovered anything that raises red flags, Ron Jarmin, the Census Bureau’s deputy director, said Thursday in a blog post. There are early signs that ...

  • Nigerian forces killed 12 peaceful protesters, Amnesty says

    Nigerian forces killed 12 peaceful protesters, Amnesty says

    Oct 21, 2020 02:45 PM EDT

    ... U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden and Beyoncé. Anti-riot police are being deployed across Nigeria and security has been strengthened around correctional facilities, the inspector-general of police announced. On Tuesday, authorities said nearly 2,000 inmates had broken out of jail after crowds attacked two correctional facilities a ...

  • How federal rules for reporting COVID-19 data could threaten hospital funding

    How federal rules for reporting COVID-19 data could threaten hospital funding

    Oct 12, 2020 10:32 PM EDT

    ... hospital,” Antos said. He said there are better ways to get a hospital’s attention without their potentially losing federal funding. A letter from an inspector general is usually more than enough to do the job, he said. Hospitals that lose that money because they consistently failed to comply with ...

  • New report suggests DOJ was 'driving force' behind Trump's family separations

    New report suggests DOJ was 'driving force' behind Trump's family separations

    Oct 07, 2020 10:35 PM EDT

    Katie Benner: There are people who expected the report to be out already. But there's been a lot of pushback from the Department of Justice on this report. And so it has been delayed while the inspector general deals with some of the criticisms coming from the department and ...