"..it's so hard to find fall guys...or patsies"
Posted on 05/31/2013 5:49:18 AM PDT by george76
While the Obama Administration scrambles to respond to a host of multi-agency scandals, five cabinet level agencies are still without Inspector Generals. These agencies are the Departments of State, Interior, Labor, Defense, and Homeland Security. The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Agency for International Development (USAID) are also lacking IG’s.
“The reason that’s significant is because there are specific independent capacities that an appointed and confirmed IG has that somebody who has not been confirmed does not have,” Americans for Limited Government spokesman Richard Manning told Breitbart News. “They don’t have the same flexibility,” he explained.
An Inspector General functions as an agency's independent auditor or ombudsman. If waste, abuse, or corruption is occurring, federal employees should be able to report such instances to their department's IG without fear of retribution. Acting IG’s or Deputy IG’s do not have the same power and job security that an appointed and confirmed Inspector General has. Manning says that an acting IG cannot possibly do the job the way a regular IG would, specifically when he or she is thinking about the possibility of being appointed and confirmed as an IG later on.
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The long absence of IG’s in key agencies could be a reason why whistleblowers are hesitant to step forward and talk to Congress about what they may know about such events like the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi,
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"..it's so hard to find fall guys...or patsies"
NJCP
Obama also fired one of the IGs, IIRC, who found out a friend of his did something wrong.
,,,Walpin led a 2008 investigation into allegations of misused taxpayer funds distributed by AmeriCorps to the St. HOPE Academy of Sacramento, founded in 1989 by Obama supporter and former NBA player Kevin Johnson. Walpin said Johnson, now mayor of Sacramento, misused roughly $850,000 in AmeriCorps funds. His referral to the U.S. Attorney's Office did not result in the filing of criminal charges. But St. HOPE officials agreed, via a settlement, to repay half of its AmeriCorps grants...
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/16/obama-accuses-fired-inspector-general-americorps-confused-disoriented/#ixzz2UsKCfdNS
Could it be because the Obama White House staff knows their Secretaries will be indicted for the criminality past and present in those departments? So they leave IG offices vacant.
Yes, that may be it!
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate Copyright 2009
Watchdogs are an endangered species in the Age of Obama. The latest government ombudsman to get the muzzle: Amtrak inspector general Fred Weiderhold. The longtime veteran employee was abruptly “retired” last month –just as the government-subsidized rail service faces mounting complaints about its meddling in financial audits and probes.
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/07/01/who-railroaded-the-amtrak-inspector-general/
Why hire people for a job that will keep them so busy they won’t have time to play golf with the anointed one?
Are they running low on hard line Marxists, or what?
All according to plan which is to eventually have NO IGs. Just acting or deputy ones. Teethless.
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