• How Senate bill would ease pandemic's economic burden

    How Senate bill would ease pandemic's economic burden

    Mar 24, 2020 10:45 PM EDT

    To put up some of the compromises that they made, it's dealing with large corporations. There's going to be $500 billion going for these large business loans. There's going to be now an inspector general and an oversight board to look at how Secretary Mnuchin, Treasury Secretary ...

  • Sanders says coronavirus testing still ‘woefully inadequate’

    Sanders says coronavirus testing still ‘woefully inadequate’

    Mar 24, 2020 10:33 PM EDT

    ... improvement in that situation in the last few hours. Judy Woodruff: Yes. And we were told that there has been serious conversation, negotiations over an inspector general and over an oversight board, so -- but we're waiting, as you say, to see the details. Senator, another piece of this is ...

  • Feds see uptick in virus frauds preying on Medicare recipients

    Feds see uptick in virus frauds preying on Medicare recipients

    Mar 24, 2020 12:50 AM EDT

    ... group to share information on the quickly evolving scams and route leads to the agencies best equipped to investigate. The phone number for the HHS inspector general's hotline is 800-HHS-TIPS, and the National Center for Disaster Fraud hotline is at 866-720-5721. Anti-fraud experts say ...

  • House set to vote on bill extending surveillance authorities

    House set to vote on bill extending surveillance authorities

    Mar 11, 2020 04:40 AM EDT

    ... and Russia, when the FBI omitted key information from its applications to eavesdrop on a former campaign adviser, according to a harshly critical Justice Department inspector general report. Trump has long been skeptical of the nation’s intelligence community, particularly over its assessment that Russia interfered in the last presidential ...

  • Why it was so difficult for HHS to reunite separated migrant families

    Why it was so difficult for HHS to reunite separated migrant families

    Mar 05, 2020 11:40 PM EDT

    ... so we can be sure that we can identify separated children to make sure they get appropriate care and then reunite with their parent, if appropriate. Lisa Desjardins: So important to keep following this. Ann Maxwell of the Inspector General's Office of HHS, thank you. Ann Maxwell: Thank you.

  • Barr to meet with Senate Republicans on surveillance laws

    Barr to meet with Senate Republicans on surveillance laws

    Feb 25, 2020 05:27 PM EDT

    ... for reforms to the government’s secret surveillance program for those posing a national security risk. Their efforts have intensified after the Justice Department’s inspector general in December issued a scathing report that detailed significant errors and omissions in four applications to the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to ...

  • Federal agents' shootings escape scrutiny, use-of-force reforms

    Federal agents' shootings escape scrutiny, use-of-force reforms

    Feb 25, 2020 02:06 AM EDT

    ... financial crimes. Yet its operations are largely overshadowed by the department's border detention units and illegal immigration roundups. The Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General has released a half-dozen reports since 2016 highlighting deficiencies in management, training, oversight and use of force within the department and its ...

  • 2 former Justice Department officials on Trump, Barr and the rule of law

    2 former Justice Department officials on Trump, Barr and the rule of law

    Feb 14, 2020 11:55 PM EDT

    Judy Woodruff: And, as we reported, coming on the very same day, Tom Dupree, that the Justice Department announced that it will not go ahead and charge Andrew McCabe, the former acting FBI director. This is after more than a year of indicating -- of the inspector general's report -- and ...

  • U.S. closes case against ex-FBI deputy director McCabe with no charges

    U.S. closes case against ex-FBI deputy director McCabe with no charges

    Feb 14, 2020 05:51 PM EDT

    ... team said Friday. The decision resolves a criminal investigation that spanned more than a year and began with a referral from the Justice Department’s inspector general, which said McCabe repeatedly lied about having authorized a subordinate to share information with a newspaper reporter for a 2016 article about an ...

  • Barr says Trump's tweets make it 'impossible' to do his job

    Barr says Trump's tweets make it 'impossible' to do his job

    Feb 13, 2020 09:21 PM EDT

    ... to Trump? Democrats decried the Justice Department’s reversal and called for immediate investigations. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called for the Justice Department’s inspector general to step in and open an investigation. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that Barr had “stooped to such levels” and that “the ...