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The U.S. government is currently missing 21 percent of its inspectors general and auditors at agencies across Washington, according to an investigation by the Center for Public Integrity.
The group says 15 of the 73 inspectors general, chief auditors, or whistleblower protection jobs across government currently are vacant or are being covered by acting officials. They include posts at the State Department, Central Intelligence Agency, Environmental Protection Agency, Labor Department, and the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
And if some lawmakers have their way with financial reform legislation pending in the Senate, five more vacancies could soon exist.
The House-passed version of financial reform legislation included a plan to convert five independently hired inspector generals at financial oversight agencies to political appointees, requiring them to be confirmed by a Senate that has been slow to act on countless nominations, including some pending for inspectors general.
political appointees? Guess the IGs won't be independent anymore. Then again, as soon as one IG was going after an Obama friend, he was fired without first going to Congress. You're independent unless you go after the President's political friends cause then you're fired.
That's because the WH is busy finding new czar positions that offer more power and secrecy and are exempt from the watchful eyes of Congress.
After all the czars are in place..then maybe the real government positions will be filled.
Anyway..do the watchdogs really watch anything ? Seems to me there's just a lot of blind eyes these days...little to nothing gets caught BEFORE it hurts the citizens.
There is another report on this that is better, but...
Obama defends the hand that helped to feed him the Presidency, the Corporation for National and Community Service.
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President Barack Obama removed a government agency’s internal watchdog last week and plans to fire him in part because he was “confused” and “disoriented” at a meeting last month, the White House said in a letter to Congress Tuesday night.
Walpin told POLITICO “There’s nothing confusing about malfeasance and there’s nothing confusing about what appears to be the fact that they terminated me because I was doing my job because the White House wanted to protect people who proclaim they are friends of the White House.” W.H.: Fired IG 'confused, disoriented' - Josh Gerstein - POLITICO.com
If the IG does their job and exposes the discrepancies, they will be removed. They will also be discredited in a fashion to where people will doubt their judgment.
There is another report on this that is better, but...
Obama defends the hand that helped to feed him the Presidency, the Corporation for National and Community Service.
If the IG does their job and exposes the discrepancies, they will be removed. They will also be discredited in a fashion to where people will doubt their judgment.
Better to have any empty seat than have someone who may criticize what you do.
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