• Trump fires more than a dozen independent inspectors general at government agencies

    Trump fires more than a dozen independent inspectors general at government agencies

    Jan 25, 2025 11:02 PM EST

    ... audits,” Connolly said. Still, Trump has aggressively challenged the authority of independent agency watchdog groups in the past. In 2020, he replaced multiple key inspectors general, including those leading the Defense Department and intelligence community, as well as the inspector general tapped to chair a special oversight board for the ...

  • Immigrant detention beds may be maxed out as Trump promises mass deportations

    Immigrant detention beds may be maxed out as Trump promises mass deportations

    Jan 23, 2025 07:26 PM EST

    ... facilities overseen by ICE have struggled broadly to comply with some federal standards for care, hindering safety for staff and detainees, a Homeland Security Department inspector general found during 17 unannounced inspections from 2020-2023. During Trump’s first administration, he authorized the use of military bases to detain immigrant ...

  • Pentagon to send 1,500 active duty troops to U.S.-Mexico border, officials say

    Pentagon to send 1,500 active duty troops to U.S.-Mexico border, officials say

    Jan 22, 2025 07:45 PM EST

    ... for up to 10,000 unaccompanied migrant children as border crossings increased from Mexico. The facility, operated by DHS, was quickly overrun, with far too few case managers for the thousands of children that arrived, exposure to extreme weather and dust and unsanitary conditions, a 2022 inspector general report found.

  • 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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    ... 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 ...