• WATCH: Defense Department hosts farewell event for Austin as he leaves leadership position

    WATCH: Defense Department hosts farewell event for Austin as he leaves leadership position

    Jan 17, 2025 03:06 PM EDT

    ... across the region and worked tirelessly to save Palestinian civilians in Gaza.” On one of Austin's final days in office, the Defense Department's inspector general released a report on his mishandling of his prostate cancer diagnosis in late 2023, when he failed to inform the White House of ...

  • How Carter's life of public service and humanitarianism will be recognized

    How Carter's life of public service and humanitarianism will be recognized

    Jan 09, 2025 11:40 PM EDT

    ... things he's done are really lasting. And let me give you two that would be unexpected. One is, he created the whole Office of Inspector Generals to root out fraud, waste and abuse. Just this last week, Michael Horowitz, the inspector general for Justice, issued a very important report ...

  • Where does U.S. foreign aid go and does it make an impact?

    Where does U.S. foreign aid go and does it make an impact?

    Jan 07, 2025 11:25 PM EDT

    Fred De Sam Lazaro:  And the results are not flattering, according to the agency's own inspector general's office, which studied USAID awards for three years, 2017 to 2019. Walter Kerr:  Forty-three percent of them failed to achieve about half of the intended results. But in spite of ...

  • No undercover FBI agents at Jan. 6 riot, watchdog finds in rebuke to conspiracy theories

    No undercover FBI agents at Jan. 6 riot, watchdog finds in rebuke to conspiracy theories

    Dec 13, 2024 03:56 PM EDT

    ... inspector general found. But there was no indication the FBI told northern Virginia police about the information, the report said. An FBI official told the inspector general there was "nothing actionable or immediately concerning about it." A cache of weapons at a Virginia hotel as part of a "quick reaction ...

  • News Wrap: White House says mysterious drones over New Jersey not a safety threat

    News Wrap: White House says mysterious drones over New Jersey not a safety threat

    Dec 12, 2024 11:50 PM EDT

    ... Secretary: OK. Thank you so much. John Kirby: Thank you, Karine. Question: Thank you, John. Geoff Bennett: Also today, a report from the Justice Department inspector general's office found that there were no undercover FBI employees on the scene during the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol ...

  • Trump names loyalist Kash Patel as FBI director to help with effort to upend law enforcement

    Trump names loyalist Kash Patel as FBI director to help with effort to upend law enforcement

    Dec 01, 2024 12:42 AM EDT

    ... memo’s release faced vehement opposition from Wray and the Justice Department, who warned that it would be reckless to disclose sensitive information. A subsequent inspector general report identified significant problems with FBI surveillance during the Russia investigation, but also found no evidence that the FBI had acted with partisan ...

  • News Wrap: FEMA administrator pushes for investigation into political bias at agency

    News Wrap: FEMA administrator pushes for investigation into political bias at agency

    Nov 19, 2024 11:45 PM EDT

    ... actions of this one individual are not representative of the work that we do at FEMA. Amna Nawaz: Criswell has also said she ordered the inspector general to do a full review of the incident in question. The hearings come a day after President Biden requested $40 billion in additional ...

  • Federal investigators launch 'interagency operation' at New York jail housing Sean 'Diddy' Combs

    Federal investigators launch 'interagency operation' at New York jail housing Sean 'Diddy' Combs

    Oct 28, 2024 06:16 PM EDT

    NEW YORK (AP) — Investigators from multiple federal agencies launched an "interagency operation” on Monday at the troubled New York City jail where Sean “Diddy” Combs is being held. The investigators from the Bureau of Prisons, the Justice Department’s inspector general’s office and other law enforcement agencies descended on ...

  • Former DOJ official questions timing of Trump election interference evidence release

    Former DOJ official questions timing of Trump election interference evidence release

    Oct 16, 2024 10:35 PM EDT

    ... cleared up some of these perceived questions about this 60-day rule? Jack Goldsmith: It's a real mystery to me. This was -- again, the inspector general in a widely read report in 2018 explained that this rule was ambiguous and uncertain and needed to be clarified. He asked for ...

  • FBI to pay $22 million to women who alleged sexual discrimination at training academy

    FBI to pay $22 million to women who alleged sexual discrimination at training academy

    Sep 30, 2024 03:40 PM EDT

    ... allegations against them were substantiated. Those claims ranged from unwanted touching and advances to coercion. In one case, an FBI assistant director retired after the inspector general's office concluded he harassed a female subordinate and sought an improper relationship with her. In response to AP's reporting, the FBI ...