On October 12, 1978, Congress passed the Inspector General Act, which established twelve Federal Offices of Inspector General tasked with rooting out fraud and waste and providing non-partisan ...

On Monday, USAID Inspector General Paul Martin did precisely what inspectors general are charged with doing. His office made public the results of an independent analysis designed to promote ...

A pair of Senate Democrats slammed President Trump’s firing of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) inspector general, calling on the administration to bring him back along with ...

Washington — President Trump fired the inspector general for the United States Agency for International Development on Tuesday, one day after he released a report detailing the impact of the ...

The White House fired the independent inspector general for the U.S. Agency for International Development on Tuesday evening, a day after his office issued a blistering report assessing the impact ...

On Tuesday, the advocacy group New Orleans United Front demanded transparency and accountability after accusing New Orleans Inspector General Ed Michel of racist and political bias. They brought ...

The role of the modern-day inspector general dates to post-Watergate Washington, when Congress installed offices inside agencies as an independent check against mismanagement and abuse of power.

To fire IGs, in other words, is to open the door to abuses. (The inspector general at the U.S. Department of Agriculture was, among other things, investigating an Elon Musk startup. When she ...

The Trump administration fired the inspector general of the U.S. Agency for International Development on Tuesday — a day after he put out a report criticizing the foreign aid freeze, a USAID ...

In the press gaggle aboard Air Force One on Jan. 25, Trump continued that he was not firing "all of them," specifically mentioning that Michael Horowitz, the inspector general of the Department of ...

(The Hill) — President Trump’s White House fired the inspector general for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on Tuesday, a day after the watchdog office issued a report ...

WASHINGTON — Robert Storch, the inspector general at the Defense Department, was among more than a dozen IGs at federal agencies fired by President Donald Trump “It’s a very common thing to ...