The State Department position of Inspector General, 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.
“This administration needs to be doing a better job,” said Ranking Member Tom Carper, D-Del., noting efforts in past congresses to pressure Obama. “But we’re not entirely pure as a committee, since many nominations have been held up here for months or more.”
Both the lawmakers and witnesses named inspectors general — acting and permanent — who got in trouble, among them:
Acting Veterans Affairs IG Richard Griffin, for his controversial handling of reports on whistleblower charges of scheduling delays at VA hospitals;
Acting Homeland Security Department IG Charles Edwards, since resigned, for abusive spending on promotional items; and, Commerce Department IG Todd Zinser, who previously was acting and whose resignation has been called for by lawmakers and POGO for alleged retaliation against whistleblowers.
“The disadvantage of being acting IG is you have less credibility because there’s no vetting,” said Danielle Brian, executive director of POGO. “There’s an incentive to curry favor with the agency head to get appointed, and they’re often more lapdog than watchdog.” Some acting IGs, such as Lynne Halbrooks, who recently left the Defense Department’s shop, “try to shield the agency from bad press” and overclassify documents, Brian said, recommending that the Defense Department IG not absorb the functions of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, as some have proposed.
Especially true if approved by resident O'Bungler !
and a DemoRAT !
Five years with no 'oversight' in the most corrupted "Department of SNAKE"
is a lapse both by Congress , and the GOP !