Jeff Sessions Don’t Need No Stinking Second Special Counsel

Have you ever worked on, participated in, responded to or been investigated by an IG doing a report?

I have. In all those capacities in two Federal agencies. The time involved is normal for a whole bunch of reasons which are way too detailed to go through here.

If you read sundance, you’ll see that chapter releases are expected.

A quick summary, after months of investigation and review, the way IG reports are rolled out, is a draft report is prepared for the Secretary, and the affected offices are given a chance to respond. The office can say they agree or disagree and submit a response with the draft findings. If they agree they must state the corrective actions they intend to take. If they disagree, the IG looks again at the finding and evidence are accepts it or continues to list it as a finding. All of this is then rolled up as a draft final report to the Secretary. It includes all the office comments as well as the IG reasonings. NONE of this is releasable or subject to FOIA.

Once approved by the Secretary, it becomes public, and the affected offices then have to prepare corrective action plans for findings, and these are monitored based on completion dates. The whole process can take two years or more for complicated reports

IG reports are directed to offices, not necessarily people, though obviously “rogue” employees come into play. They are done to ensure offices follow their own published guidelines, procedures, processes, etc. Criminal acts are referred to the attorneys for action, not by the IG.

Now if you are doing a through IG report, in a vipers den of corrupted Obama appointees, with 8 years of civil service staffing of the worst libs you can imagine, how much time would it take you?

Through no fault of their own, Freepers here have absolutely no clue whatsoever of how federal agencies operate. I have been in this swamp, as a Reagan appointee, running statewide political campaigns, worked at the RNC, and seen what Obama accomplished with staffing his civil service.

Trump didn’t have and still doesn’t have a clue, though he is learning and may start to get appointments right sometime in his second term.

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