Tag: Inspectors General

"Identifying and investigating potential visa overstays requires pulling data from dozens of systems and databases, some of which are not integrated and do not electronically share information," Department of Homeland Security Inspector General John Roth said. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

DHS can’t track visa overstays: Government watchdog

Pete Kasperowicz · May 23, 2017 8:26 pm

Group asks inspector general to examine the EPA's plan to reassign 10 investigators to serve as bodyguards for Administrator Scott Pruitt. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Energy and Environment

Environmental watchdog calls for probe into Pruitt’s bodyguard detail

John Siciliano · May 12, 2017 5:04 pm

Three current officers with the agency's Passenger Enforcement Roving Team said the attacks have been going on for years. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Newark customs officers accuse co-workers of sexually assaulting them on ‘rape table’

Anna Giaritelli · May 9, 2017 9:43 pm

While the IRS has acknowledged that the earned income tax credit is a high risk, it "still does not provide a valid assessment" of the rate of improper payments for other refundable credits, Inspector General J. Russell George said. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

25 percent of IRS payments for several major tax credits are wrong, IG says

Joseph Lawler · May 2, 2017 8:38 pm

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Trump administration leaving federal agencies unguarded by watchdogs

Sarah Bedford · April 30, 2017 12:00 pm

Chaffetz asked that the "appropriate entity" investigate the matter of whether Mike Flynn violated federal law by accepting payments from foreign government-controlled entities. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

Jason Chaffetz asks Army for ‘final determination’ on Mike Flynn

Daniel Chaitin · April 27, 2017 5:27 pm

"Physical violence, harassment, and intimidation of IRS employees continue to pose challenges to the implementation of a fair and effective system of tax administration," J. Russell George, inspector general for Tax Administration at the Treasury Department said.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Violence against IRS workers poses ‘challenges’ for tax collection

Pete Kasperowicz · April 26, 2017 3:59 pm

Sadly, it seems that some in the EPA would rather play politics than join with Pruitt to fight pollution. (Wikipedia Commons)

Energy and Environment

Watchdog clears Obama EPA over $15.7M lobbying campaign

John Siciliano · April 24, 2017 10:36 pm

The new report found the agency was understaffed and overwhelmed. (Bryan Cox/ICE via AP)

Inspector general: ICE ‘not deporting all the aliens who could be deported’

Anna Giaritelli · April 21, 2017 1:06 am

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich proposed on Wednesday that the Affordable Care Act was designed to crush the private sector healthcare industry and role out socialized medicine to Americans. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

HHS inspector general to review Trump administration decision to pull Obamacare ads

Daniel Chaitin · March 25, 2017 1:08 am

"We are less than a month into President Trump's administration, yet the American people are on the cusp of witnessing some of the greatest scams in presidential history," said Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Democrats demand creation of White House inspector general

Pete Kasperowicz · February 14, 2017 9:15 pm

The DHS's Office of the Inspector General will investigate the roll-out of President Trump's immigration order. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Watchdog to investigate how Homeland Security executed Trump immigration order

Kyle Feldscher · February 2, 2017 7:52 pm