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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
Officials from the Office of the Inspector General and the U.S. Government Accountability Office testified Oct. 1 about efforts to prevent fraud within federal programs set up to support small businesses affected by the novel coronavirus pandemic. Watch the hearing live in the video player above. Hannibal “Mike” Ware ...
... you. Every American should be worried about this. This is not just an abuse of power against Mr. Page and the Trump campaign. This is a system failure, and you could be next. Judy Woodruff: A Justice Department inspector general has found no evidence of partisan bias in the investigation.
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