“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.”
I should have been more specific.
I don’t believe in IG’s. You can’t ask Departments and agencies to inspect themselves. After 36 years of federal service, I have found them to be allies of management and unwilling to be frank and honest. For the most part, they are staffed by career bureaucrats.