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The Department of Homeland Security's inspector general and his career staff are suing an executive branch entity, alleging it tried to destroy them financially for exposing and unprecedented "level of dysfunction and dishonesty" inside the agency. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in the Virginia suburbs of Washington D.C. alleges workers were subjected to a "Kafkaesque system" of retribution, and that one federal official even joked about assassinating the current Homeland Security inspector general's predecessor. Inspectors general were created in the aftermath of Watergate to work as independent watchdogs to police for waste, fraud and abuse inside large federal...

NOTE The following text is a quote: www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/statement-nsc-spokesman-mike-hammer-council-inspectors-general-integrity-and-effici Home • Briefing Room • Statements & Releases The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release July 15, 2010 Statement by NSC Spokesman Mike Hammer on the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency Evaluation of the IG's Operations in Afghanistan A joint team at NSC and OMB received a preliminary briefing today from the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE), which is a statutory body of IG’s. At the request of the NSC and in coordination with the Department of Defense and the Department...

Note: The following text is a quote: Home • Briefing Room • Presidential Actions • Executive Orders The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release November 23, 2009 Executive Order-- Reducing Improper Payments and Eliminating Waste in Federal Programs EXECUTIVE ORDER By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in the interest of reducing payment errors and eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse in Federal programs, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Purpose. When the Federal Government makes payments to individuals and businesses...