US Commission on Civil Rights isn't meeting performance targets

Internal disputes in a government agency continue to threaten competence at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, with the agency failing to meet even half of its performance targets over a recent four-year period.

The agency failed to meet 61 of its 115 performance targets that measured its goals from 2009 to 2013, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Tuesday. Established by the 1957 eponymous law to investigate the quality of civil rights across the country, the agency is comprised of about 40 people, including eight commissioners and a staff director.