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  • House Committee Probes Commerce Inspector General Over Alleged Whistleblower Retaliation, False Statements To Congress

    04/09/2023 9:13:14 AM PDT · by Twotone · 2 replies
    The Daily Caller ^ | April 6, 2023 | John Hugh Demastri
    The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee on Thursday launched a bipartisan investigation into the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Commerce over allegations the agency’s chief had engaged in whistleblower retaliation. The Committee members alleged that Inspector General Peggy Gustafson and “senior members” of the OIG had engaged in the retaliation, made misleading statements to Congress and conducted operations with “gross mismanagement,” according to a letter signed by Chairman Frank Lucas and Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren, an Oklahoma Republican and California Democrat respectively, citing reports received by the Committee. The letter also notes the...
  • Secret Service deleted texts from Jan. 5 and 6, 2021, after watchdog sought records

    07/14/2022 4:07:19 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 52 replies
    ABC ^ | 07 14 2022 | Allison Pecorin, Rachel Scott, and Tal Axelrod
    *It's still unclear if the messages were deleted intentionally or by accident.* The Secret Service deleted text messages from Jan. 5 and 6, 2021, after an internal watchdog requested them as part of a review of the department’s handling of last year’s Capitol riot, the watchdog said this week. A letter sent Wednesday by the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General to the heads of the House and Senate Homeland Security Committees, which was obtained by ABC News, said the messages were deleted “as part of a device-replacement program” despite the inspector general requesting such communications. "First, the Department notified...
  • Durham Court Filing Reveals DOJ Inspector General Horowitz Withheld Key Evidence From Special Counsel

    01/28/2022 1:01:46 PM PST · by Red Badger · 69 replies
    https://www.theepochtimes.com ^ | January 28, 2022 | By Jeff Carlson and Hans Mahncke
    A new court filing by special counsel John Durham reveals that Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael Horowitz concealed crucial information from Durham in connection with the ongoing prosecution of Michael Sussmann, a former attorney to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. The filing also reveals that Horowitz failed to disclose that his office is in possession of two cellphones used by former FBI general counsel James Baker. The phones may contain information that’s important to the Sussmann case, as well as to a separate criminal leak investigation of Baker that Durham personally conducted between 2017 and 2019. Horowitz first...
  • Special Report to Congress OIG Corporation for National and Community Service (Walpin's Report)

    06/18/2009 3:15:26 PM PDT · by dervish · 17 replies · 872+ views
    (p. 26) The decision by the Corporation and the U.S. Attorney to cut out OIG and agree to this Settlement Agreement was injurious to the Federal government as a whole and specifically to the Corporation and the hard-working and dedicated staff of the Office of Inspector General. First, the settlement sends the signal that acceptance of a grantee or its principal as “responsible” can be purchased in a monetary settlement, overriding all evidence of wrongdoing previously found to warrant a suspension, without the presentation of any contradicting evidence. Settlement Agreements are supposed to settle the liability of the grantee and...
  • Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General Announces Initiation of Investigation

    01/25/2021 7:52:35 PM PST · by bitt · 35 replies
    oig.justice.gov ^ | 1/25/2021 | oig.justice.gov
    The DOJ Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is initiating an investigation into whether any former or current DOJ official engaged in an improper attempt to have DOJ seek to alter the outcome of the 2020 Presidential Election. The investigation will encompass all relevant allegations that may arise that are within the scope of the OIG’s jurisdiction. The OIG has jurisdiction to investigate allegations concerning the conduct of former and current DOJ employees. The OIG's jurisdiction does not extend to allegations against other government officials. The OIG is making this statement, consistent with DOJ policy, to reassure the public that...
  • RECORDING: Federal agents “coerce” USPS whistleblower Hopkins to water down story. Hopkins doubles down... (VIDEO)

    11/10/2020 4:42:31 PM PST · by Mount Athos · 124 replies
    twitter ^ | 10 Oct 2020 | James O'Keefe @JamesOKeefeIII
    Agent Strasser: “I am trying to twist you a little bit” “I am scaring you here”...” we have Senators involved...DOJ involved...reason they called me is to try to harness that storm.”
  • State Department accuses fired IG of obtaining official documents, accessing office after dismissal

    06/09/2020 10:44:16 AM PDT · by Presbyterian Reporter · 34 replies
    fox news ^ | 6/9/2020 | Rich Edson, Alex Pappas
    A top State Department official has accused Steve Linick, the department’s fired inspector general, of contacting a former colleague, obtaining official documents and returning to his former office -- all in violation of the terms of his administrative leave, Fox News has learned. In a letter to Linick's attorney, obtained by Fox News, the State Department Under Secretary for Management Brian Bulatao says “in the days before his Congressional testimony, he sent a text message to the Deputy Inspector General, Diana Shaw, requesting a copy of the DOD IG report on the origins of a leak of a draft State...
  • Breaking — Kevin Clinesmith pleads guilty… Developing…

    08/14/2020 11:52:41 AM PDT · by Beave Meister · 89 replies
    Citizen Free Press ^ | 8/14/2020 | Kane
    A top FBI lawyer who fabricated evidence in a federal spy warrant against Trump campaign affiliate Carter Page is expected to plead guilty to federal charges brought by U.S. Attorney John Durham. Kevin Clinesmith, who is expected to admit to deliberately fabricating evidence in a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant application, used to spy on a former campaign affiliate of President Donald Trump, was a top attorney in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Office of General Counsel (OGC) and a key agency attorney under fired former FBI Director James Comey. Clinesmith is the first individual to be charged as part...
  • Inspector General Audits FBI Controls Over Lost or Stolen Weapons, Comments

    07/04/2020 5:42:42 AM PDT · by marktwain · 32 replies
    AmmoLand ^ | 1 July, 2020 | Dean Weingarten
    In March of 2020, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the United States Department of Justice released an audit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) controls over weapons, munitions, and explosives. The FBI has 57,812 firearms in their inventory.  Extrapolating from the numbers in the survey recorded in the report, the FBI has about 2.8 million rounds of ammunition on hand, relatively small numbers of less than lethal munitions, and small amounts of explosives.The FBI is not a national police force. They are closer to a national detective, or some say a “secret police” force. Their primary...
  • DOJ IG Horowitz Now Confirms Evidence of Political Bias in FBI Text Messages

    12/18/2019 5:21:43 PM PST · by White MAGA Man · 35 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | Dec 18, 2019 | Christina Laila
    DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz testified to Senators on Wednesday that he found evidence of political bias in text messages sent by FBI officials who were involved in the FISA process targeting Carter Page.
  • OIG Report: Social Security Administration Paid $11.6 Million to Dead Puerto Ricans

    10/30/2019 3:05:44 PM PDT · by SilvieWaldorfMD · 29 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 10/29/19 | Penny Starr
    An Inspector General report for the Social Security Administration flew under the radar when it was issued in August, and the administration refused to answer Breitbart News’s inquiry about the findings that reveal $11.6 million in payments were paid to dead people in Puerto Rico. The findings of the report stated: SSA issued approximately $11.6 million in payments after death to 149 beneficiaries and 4 representative payees who died in Puerto Rico from January 1992 through December 2016. Identifying and correcting these discrepancies will prevent approximately $1.4 million in additional improper payments after death over the next 12 months. We...
  • DOJ watchdog: FBI lost track of 62 foreign cooperators in U.S.

    06/12/2019 5:47:01 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 18 replies
    The Hill ^ | 06/12/19 | Zack Budryk
    The FBI lost track of more than 60 foreign cooperators in the U.S. after sponsoring them to aid in investigations, according to a report released Tuesday by the Justice Department’s (DOJ) Office of Inspector General. In addition, the watchdog's audit identified 1,000 DOJ-sponsored foreign nationals that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was not provided information on in February 2018. By that August it was still seeking information from DOJ on 665. While DHS facilitates the cooperators' entries into the U.S., the DOJ takes custody of them once they are in the country. “We believe that all DOJ components need...
  • Why The IG Report On FISA Abuse Will Unleash Barr’s Investigation Of Spygate

    06/07/2019 2:00:53 PM PDT · by detective · 39 replies
    The Federalist ^ | June 7, 2019 | Margot Cleveland
    The closing of the final inspector general investigation into the Russia collusion investigation promises to open the flood gates for previously undisclosed information and indictments. The forthcoming report from the Office of Inspector General on potential Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse will finally unleash Attorney General William Barr, and when it does, watch out. For the last month, conservative pundits have predicted the ever-imminent dropping of Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on his investigation into the circumstances surrounding FISA surveillance of former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page. Horowitz’s report will likely provide new and damaging details surrounding the FBI’s use...
  • This Republican Has An Idea About The Identity Of The Senior FBI Official Who Was Leaking tr

    06/01/2019 3:29:24 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 22 replies
    townhall.com ^ | May 31, 2019 | Matt Vespa
    Full Title: This Republican Has An Idea About The Identity Of The Senior FBI Official Who Was Leaking Confidential Material Republican Congressman Doug Collins (R-GA), the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, wants to know whom the identity of the senior FBI official who was leaking confidential information to the media. Katie wrote about the Department of Justice Inspector General’s report on the matter, where it said a deputy assistant director at the FBI illegally disclosed sealed court material to the press. The person in question received gifts from the media in return. The person was never charged: The OIG investigation...
  • Findings of Misconduct by an FBI Deputy Assistant Director for Unauthorized Contacts with the Media,

    05/29/2019 11:04:47 AM PDT · by bitt · 47 replies
    oig.justice.gov ^ | 5/29/2019 | OIG DOJ
    INVESTIGATIVE SUMMARY The Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of the Inspector General (OIG) initiated this investigation upon the receipt of information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), alleging that a then FBI Deputy Assistant Director (DAD) had numerous contacts with members of the media in violation of FBI policy. Additionally, it was alleged that the DAD may have disclosed law enforcement or other sensitive information to the media without authorization. This matter is among the OIG investigations referenced on page 430 of the OIG’s Review of Allegations Regarding Various Actions by the Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
  • Too Deep To Drain? – OIG Finds Preponderance of Evidence Against FBI Deputy Asst. Director – DOJ..

    05/29/2019 10:59:32 PM PDT · by bitt · 56 replies
    CONSERVATIVE TREEHOUSE ^ | 5/29/2019 | SUNDANCE
    Citing the ongoing internal investigation of FBI leaks to media, from the 2018 OIG report on FBI conduct, today the Office of Inspector General outlined a preponderance of evidence against a corrupt FBI Deputy Asst. Director. However, the DOJ is refusing to prosecute: The most alarming aspect is the OIG finding of the Deputy Asst. Director leaking grand jury information to the media, and yet the DOJ is declining to prosecute. Incredibly, the inspector general (IG) indicated, without explanation, that “prosecution of the DAD [deputy assistant director] was declined.” Instead, the investigation’s findings will be referred to the FBI for...
  • Senior FBI Official Caught for Leaking Confidential Court Material to Media...But There's a Catch

    05/30/2019 10:06:21 AM PDT · by jazusamo · 34 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | May 30, 2019 | Katie Pavlich
    The Department of Justice Inspector General revealed this week that an unnamed former FBI Deputy Assistant Director [DAD] illegally disclosed sealed court information to the media in addition to a number of other violations. "The OIG investigation concluded that the DAD engaged in misconduct when the DAD: (1) disclosed to the media the existence of information that had been filed under seal in federal court, in violation of 18 USC § 401, Contempt of Court; (2) provided without authorization FBI law enforcement sensitive information to reporters on multiple occasions; and (3) had dozens of official contacts with the media...
  • AG William Barr Outlines Scope/Timeline of OIG FISA Review

    05/01/2019 3:49:02 PM PDT · by detective · 17 replies
    Conservative Treehouse ^ | May 1, 2019 | sundance
    During a round of questioning with Senator Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) AG William Barr was asked about scale and scope of the current IG investigation [04:22 prompted]. In response to the question AG Barr replies: “I don’t want to be too specific; I talked to Mike Horowitz a few weeks ago about it, and its focused on the FISA, the basis for the FISA, and the handling of the FISA application. But by necessity it looks back a little bit earlier than that. The people I have helping me with my review will be working very closely with Mr. Horowitz.”
  • Inspector General releases findings of misconduct

    “The OIG investigation substantiated that the SSA violated federal law or regulation in making false representations related to two mortgage loans and filing false annual financial disclosure forms by not reporting income received from the contractor. The OIG investigation also substantiated that the SSA violated federal law or regulations, and the FBI ethics policies, by working for a contractor that was currently under contract with the FBI, accepting gifts from an applicant for the FBI employment and assisting the applicant in the selection process, misusing the SSA’s government vehicle by allowing family members to ride in the vehicle, and exchanging...
  • OIG Finds FBI Contractor Corruption With Two Current Senior FBI Officials…

    01/29/2019 8:40:42 PM PST · by bitt · 42 replies
    CONSERVATIVE TREEHOUSE ^ | 1/29/2019 | SUNDANCE
    This is really interesting. Unfortunately, we don’t get the names. Findings of Misconduct by Two Current Senior FBI Officials and One Retired FBI Official While Providing Oversight on an FBI Contract . https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2019/f190129.pdf Key phrases: “two current senior FBI officials”, “one former”, relating to an “FBI Contractor”. Could this be an FBI contractor like Fusion-GPS or Crowdstrike? I wish we could know more.