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Congress has made it harder for presidents to replace a fired or acting inspector general with a non-independent official.
The Department of Defense’s Office of Inspector General, in a controversial new report, offered unabashed praise of military leaders for their reaction to the “chaotic and confusing situation” on Jan. 6.
The White House lacks an important mechanism for accountability, documenting wrongdoing and executing corrective action. A quasi-inspector general tasked with ensuring proper function of the staff and free from interference from other senior officials could offer a solution.
A selective guide to the upcoming debates on inspector general reform
The report found no evidence that the Park Police cleared the park of racial justice marchers so that then-President Trump could walk through the park for a photo-op at St. John’s Episcopal Church.
Could Congress build a kind of distributed truth commission on the back of a system that already investigates misconduct in every important agency in the federal government: the network of inspectors general?