• Trump Homeland Security pick faces hurdles to confirmation

    Trump Homeland Security pick faces hurdles to confirmation

    Sep 11, 2020 08:23 PM EDT

    DHS spokesman Alexei Woltornist has said the agency denies there is "any truth," to the complaint Murphy made to the agency's Office of Inspector General, which provided additional ammunition to Wolf critics who were already accusing him of politicizing the agency by deploying federal forces against protesters in Portland ...

  • States take lessons from chaotic primary season to prepare for an unprecedented election

    States take lessons from chaotic primary season to prepare for an unprecedented election

    Sep 10, 2020 09:33 PM EDT

    “It gives me great confidence in the system,” he said. But voters have expressed concerns about mail-in ballots for a range of reasons. An audit released last week by the U.S. Postal Service’s inspector general determined that seven processing and distribution facilities failed to deliver 1 ...

  • DHS whistleblower says agency leaders pressured him to suppress intel that Trump would find objectionable

    DHS whistleblower says agency leaders pressured him to suppress intel that Trump would find objectionable

    Sep 09, 2020 08:07 PM EDT

    ... deputy under secretary in the Office of Intelligence and Analysis. He is seeking to be reinstated in a complaint filed with the DHS Office of Inspector General. Rep. Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, released the complaint, which he said contained “grave and disturbing” allegations. He said Murphy ...

  • Peter Strzok on why he believes Trump is 'compromised' by Russia

    Peter Strzok on why he believes Trump is 'compromised' by Russia

    Sep 08, 2020 10:30 PM EDT

    So, the idea that somehow we wanted to do that flies in the face of common sense. And, furthermore, there have been exhaustive investigations. There have been two inspector general investigations. There have been multiple looks by various U.S. attorneys. There have been investigations by both the House and ...

  • Barr tightens rules on surveillance of political candidates

    Barr tightens rules on surveillance of political candidates

    Sep 01, 2020 06:05 PM EDT

    ... contemplated giving such "defensive briefings" to the Trump campaign but decided against it for fear of compromising an ongoing investigation, according to a Justice Department inspector general report. Under the new policy, no application on a candidate or staffer could be submitted unless the FBI director has decided that a ...

  • House readies contempt resolution as Pompeo defies subpoenas

    House readies contempt resolution as Pompeo defies subpoenas

    Aug 28, 2020 11:04 PM EDT

    ... out in lengthy court battles.The State Department has also defied subpoenas in the committee's investigation of Trump's firing of the department's inspector general, Steve Linick, which Democrats have alleged came in retaliation for probes of Pompeo that the watchdog was conducting. Pompeo has denied knowledge of ...

  • Health agencies' credibility at risk after week of blunders

    Health agencies' credibility at risk after week of blunders

    Aug 28, 2020 05:19 PM EDT

    ... time when the capacity of the federal government to advance public health should be a priority for all policymakers," said Daniel Levinson, the former longtime inspector general of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees both the FDA and the CDC. Trump administration officials said Wednesday ...

  • Watchdog groups say convention appearances broke Hatch Act

    Watchdog groups say convention appearances broke Hatch Act

    Aug 28, 2020 12:54 AM EDT

    ... law professor, and Painter — George W. Bush's former ethics lawyer, a onetime Democratic Senate candidate, and a University of Minnesota law professor — requests an inspector general investigation into Pompeo's State Department. They also called for a review of whether State Department employees who helped with logistics could have ...

  • Pentagon says use of surveillance planes in protests was legal

    Pentagon says use of surveillance planes in protests was legal

    Aug 21, 2020 06:51 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The use of National Guard reconnaissance planes in four U.S. cities to monitor the widespread protests earlier this year didn't violate rules against the military collecting intelligence on Americans, a Pentagon report has concluded. The investigation by the Air Force inspector general found that the planes ...

  • Watchdog says the U.S. Census lacks door knockers needed for 2020 count

    Watchdog says the U.S. Census lacks door knockers needed for 2020 count

    Aug 21, 2020 04:49 PM EDT

    ... they keep saying we have plenty of workers and not to worry because we can do this faster with plenty of enumerators," said Lowenthal, who is now a census consultant. "But that is not what we are hearing from the field and now the Inspector General report is confirming that."