• Pilot messages reveal 2016 concerns over safety of Boeing 737 Max

    Pilot messages reveal 2016 concerns over safety of Boeing 737 Max

    Oct 18, 2019 10:42 PM EST

    ... if it went all the way up to Boeing executives? David Shepardson: We don't know that. There are -- the Justice Department, the FBI, the inspector general from the DOT, there are a lot of reviews going on looking at this very question. We do know there are a lot ...

  • 38 people cited for violations in Clinton email probe

    38 people cited for violations in Clinton email probe

    Oct 18, 2019 09:13 PM EST

    ... careless" in her use of the private email server as secretary of state but said the FBI would not recommend charges. The Justice Department's inspector general said FBI specialists did not find evidence that the server had been hacked, with one forensics agent saying he felt "fairly confident that ...

  • Pete Sessions appears to be 'Congressman 1' ensnared in Guiliani associates' indictment

    Pete Sessions appears to be 'Congressman 1' ensnared in Guiliani associates' indictment

    Oct 11, 2019 01:18 PM EST

    ... a manila envelope. Giuliani told The New York Times last week that the documents, which were recently provided to Congress by the State Department's inspector general, were produced by a "professional investigator who works for my company." Yovanovitch was recalled to Washington in May, months before she had been ...

  • How 'Deep State' book disputes accusations of Trump bias at FBI, DOJ

    How 'Deep State' book disputes accusations of Trump bias at FBI, DOJ

    Oct 10, 2019 10:35 PM EST

    ... they have views? Of course they do. Do their views affect their professional work? And in both my investigation and a thorough investigation by the inspector general, the conclusion was, no, it never did. And I demonstrate in the book, on the contrary, there were times when both Page and ...

  • Chicago releases watchdog probe of Laquan McDonald shooting

    Chicago releases watchdog probe of Laquan McDonald shooting

    Oct 09, 2019 10:22 PM EST

    ... transparent government and to regain public trust. Mayor Lori Lightfoot has promised to "shine a light" on police misconduct and voiced concerns that withholding the Inspector General's office reports "only generates mistrust." There is no incident in recent Chicago history that has created such distrust of City Hall and ...

  • Turkey had ‘legitimate security concern’ in attacking Syrian Kurds, Pompeo says

    Turkey had ‘legitimate security concern’ in attacking Syrian Kurds, Pompeo says

    Oct 09, 2019 10:16 PM EST

    ... identified as al-Baghdadi, said. “Your brothers and sisters, do your utmost to free them and tear down the walls restricting them.”The Defense Department Inspector General also warned recently that ISIS had established “resurgent cells” in Syria. When asked whether, by leaving northeastern Syria, the United States was giving ...

  • Trump administration proposes overhauling Medicare fraud rules

    Trump administration proposes overhauling Medicare fraud rules

    Oct 09, 2019 12:28 PM EST

    The Health and Human Services inspector general's office is involved in rewriting one of the rules, which enforces an anti-kickback statute that it oversees. The other major revision involves a rule that forbids clinicians from referring patients to facilities in which they have a financial interest. That rule ...

  • Trump wants out of 'endless war,' but pulling troops from northeast Syria could bring bloodshed

    Trump wants out of 'endless war,' but pulling troops from northeast Syria could bring bloodshed

    Oct 08, 2019 10:15 PM EST

    ... has “stepped up their regrouping efforts” through the women with ISIS connections who are also being held in the SDF-guarded camps. A U.S. Inspector General report from June 2019 said that ISIS “likely retains between 14,000 and 18,000 ‘members’ in Iraq and Syria, including 3,000 ...

  • Impeachment subpoenas hit Pentagon, White House as second whistleblower steps forward

    Impeachment subpoenas hit Pentagon, White House as second whistleblower steps forward

    Oct 07, 2019 10:45 PM EST

    Yamiche Alcindor: In the meantime, a second whistle-blower has entered to back up the complaint. Attorney Mark Zaid now represents both individuals. Zaid said his new client, described as another intelligence official, has been interviewed by Michael Atkinson, the intelligence community's inspector general. On Sunday, Zaid tweeted that ...

  • AP Fact Check: Trump points fingers as he faces impeachment inquiry

    AP Fact Check: Trump points fingers as he faces impeachment inquiry

    Oct 07, 2019 01:18 PM EST

    In any event, the inspector general's office said it had provided the whistleblower separate background material on submitting a complaint that included that language. Rep. Adam Schiff TRUMP: "Congressman Adam Schiff should resign for the Crime of, after reading a transcript of my conversation with the President of Ukraine ...