Posted on 04/07/2020 11:27:11 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Glenn Fine, who had been the acting Pentagon inspector general, was informed Monday that he was being replaced by Sean W. O’Donnell, currently the inspector general at the Environmental Protection Agency.
Fine is a career official...
“Mr. Fine is no longer on the pandemic response accountability committee,” Defense Department spokeswoman Dwrena K. Allen said in a statement. He will, however, continue to serve in his current position of principal deputy inspector general at the Pentagon.
The $2 trillion coronavirus emergency spending law created several layers of oversight, including a Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, which is supposed to be overseen by the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency. Late last month, a number of inspectors general selected Fine to serve as panel chairman.
The new law tasked the group to conduct and coordinate audits, with investigators looking for waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer money that the law directed be spent on loans, loan guarantees, and financial payments to households and businesses.
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What is the point of being president if you can’t be president?
The need to make sure the put someone in there who won’t care where the money goes. That’s the most important thing. We don’t need nosey bureaucrats digging around looking to see if Jared ended up with a massive loan restructuring here, do we?
Jared who?
I trust this President way, way more than I do any career bureaucrat.
The Subway spokesman.
You would think this is from an episode of 'Yes Minister'.
He cleaned up the EPA?
He probably saw that liberal math has it, one for you (citizen), two for planned parenthood . . .
The musical cries of the liberal agony of defeat.
May the din incrementally increase after the November election.
Now we are hearing they have arrested some schizo for claiming he is “Q”. What the hell is going on?
I wonder if President Trump suspected he had another Atkinson on his hands.
Glenn Fine is a fine and loyal Democrat operative, willing to do the bidding of the Party’s Central Committee. An Atkinson wannabe.
Certain wh jobs are so high stress that it is normal and sensible to cycle the heads frequently.
Not surprising... The sad memories of Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili's untimely death still haunt the the media arm of the CPUSA...
Trump is wising up. Should have fired Comey.....day one. Replaced Sessions, day two.
Took a long time, but Trump has finally figured out how much power and influence IGs have, and how many are entrenched in the Deep State.
wiki:
Inspector General
Fine was appointed Inspector General of the Department of Justice by President Bill Clinton in 2000. The office is expected to be non-partisan.[5]
Retirement as DOJ IG
Fine resigned as the DOJ Inspector General in February 2011. He joined Dechert as a partner in the White Collar & Securities Litigation Practice on September 6, 2011.[7] Shortly after he announced his retirement, the New York Times praised Fine’s tenure as the DOJ Inspector General:
The Department of Justice’s inspector general, Glenn Fine, stepped down on Friday after a decade of pushing to clean up and depoliticize a hyperpoliticized department. He will be missed. Mr. Fine’s best-known efforts came in 2008 when he documented the George W. Bush administration’s politically driven firings of four United States attorneys and its politically driven hirings (breaking the civil service law) of scores of civil servants at the Civil Rights Division. Last year, he continued to detail the F.B.I.’s widespread misuse since 2001 of ‘exigent letters’... President Obama should appoint a vigilant successor to Mr. Fine, one who will continue to expose the department’s shortcomings and their costs.[7]
Other newspapers also praised his tenure as the DOJ IG. The Washington Post wrote, “The job of Inspector General is often thankless one, requiring the ability to make unflinching and crucial assessments that are not always well received by colleagues. The Justice Department employed one of the best during the past decade in the person of Glenn A. Fine, who recently stepped down. Mr. Fine was instrumental in unearthing problems and identifying solutions in the mammoth agency since joining the IG’s office in the mid-1990s. He took over the reins in 2000 and led investigations into all facets of the department’s operations”.[8] A segment on NPR praised Fine as “a model IG.”[9]
Return to public service
In June 2015, Fine returned to Public Service and accepted a position as the Principal Deputy Inspector General of the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DOD OIG). On January 10, 2016, Fine became the Acting Inspector General for the DOD.[10]
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