President Obama enters his lame duck year with eight federal agencies without Inspectors General and five Inspector General positions waiting for presidential appointments.
The Export-Import Bank, Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Commerce, National Reconnaissance Office and Department of Energy do not have IGs and are waiting for Obama to appoint a nominee.
The Department of the Interior never received a permanent IG appointment from the president until last June and Senate Republicans are not ready to confirm Obama’s choice, deputy Interior Inspector General Mary Kendall, claiming she is too close to senior political figures at the department to be considered independent.
President Obama appointed an IG nominee to the Department of Veterans Affairs in October. The IG position for the VA remains empty since late December 2013. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation received an IG nomination from the president in November 2014, but his pick is floundering in the Senate.
The longest vacancies have been at the Interior Department, where the position has sat empty nearly six years, and the State Department, which, as several pointed out, went for five years with an acting IG. That represented the entire duration of Hillary Clinton’s tenure. One witness suggested that State’s acting IG might have turned a blind eye to Clinton’s use of a private email server.
Senators to Obama: Fill the Inspector General Vacancies
By Charles S. Clark June 3, 2015
Currently, said Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department IG who chairs the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, IG slots are vacant at seven major agencies: Interior, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Veterans Affairs Department, the General Services Administration, the Export-Import Bank and the CIA. All but the CIA’s have been empty a year or more, he said, and the Obama administration has submitted nominations for only three.
http://www.govexec.com/oversight/2015/06/senators-obama-fill-inspector-general-vacancies/114412/
You clearly discovered something amazing about Hillary Cilnton’s term at the Department of State: it’s entirely true that she was never subject to an inspector general!!!
It’s too bad most of your information is wrong of bizarrely out of date. (For instance, State got an IG shortly after Clinton left.)
Some 33 federal agencies are required by law to have presidentially appointed inspectors general to identify wasteful practices and general government misconduct. But, according to the Project on Governmental Oversight, the Obama administration has left these positions open for, on average, 613 days, which is hundreds of days longer than even President Clinton, who was second with 453 days.
Johnson said having acting inspectors general in these roles is not the same as those who confirmed by the Senate.
If I were given an IG position, the first thing I would do is match OPM records with actual real people in the department.
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In my experience, regardless of political leanings, they always adhered to their sworn obligation to enforce the law they enforced!