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Home Front: Politix
Trump fires at least 12 independent inspectors general
2025-01-25
[IsraelTimes] US President Donald Trump’s administration fires the independent inspectors general of more than a dozen major government agencies, US media reports.

The agencies include the departments of defense, state, transportation, veterans affairs, housing and urban development, interior, and energy, Washington Post says, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter.

The New York Times says the purge affected 17 agencies but spared the Department of Justice inspector general, Michael Horowitz.

The Post says the firings “appeared to violate federal law, which requires Congress to receive 30 days’ notice of any intent to fire the inspectors general.”

The White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the reports.

An inspector general is an independent position that conducts audits, investigations and inspectors into allegations of waste, fraud and abuse. They can be removed by the president or the agency head, depending on who nominated or appointed them.

Most of those dismissed were appointees from Trump’s 2017-2021 first term, the Post reporting, saying those affected had been notified by emails from the White House personnel director that they had been terminated effective immediately.
Posted by:trailing wife

#7  He is not firing them. He is merely maximizing their independence. Now, shoo!
Posted by: SteveS   2025-01-25 14:20  

#6  Red State wonders if this is a chess move in a bigger game:

For example, Michael Missal, the inspector general at the Veterans Affairs Department, oversaw multiple investigations of how the Biden administration handled the agency’s troubled effort to build a massive electronic health records system for veterans’ medical information. Among other conclusions, the reports showed that veterans had been put at risk as their prescriptions were lost in the system. The project has been paused for months.

Mark Greenblatt, a Trump appointee at the Interior Department who was fired Friday, released a lengthy investigation in 2021 concluding that when the U.S. Park Police led law enforcement officers into a crowd of mostly peaceful protesters outside Lafayette Square during the first Trump administration, they did so as part of a plan made days earlier to build a fence around the park to protect officers — not to facilitate the visit minutes later by the president to a nearby church.

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Among those apparently spared Friday was Joseph V. Cuffari Jr., the embattled inspector general at the Department of Homeland Security. A Trump appointee, Cuffari was found in October by an independent panel of watchdogs to have misled the Senate during his nomination process and committed other misconduct during his five years in office.
Posted by: trailing wife   2025-01-25 14:14  

#5  I think part of the idea was to move the IGs physically outside of the departments that they oversee. Let’s see what plan unfolds.
Posted by: Super Hose   2025-01-25 12:51  

#4  Considering every institution and GIVERnment department is corrupt I wonder what the Independent Inspector Generals have been doing?
Posted by: Airandee   2025-01-25 10:35  

#3  Trump Administration fires watchdog Inspectors General from 17 federal agencies in late-night purge
Posted by: Skidmark   2025-01-25 10:32  

#2  Amen to this - keep digging as the IG's circle wagons to protect those remaining
Posted by: Clem+Elmish4239   2025-01-25 08:57  

#1  
When any IG is politically tainted, the IG must go.

But! Will the DOJ/_ _ _ investigate to see if there is any politically tainted / criminal wrong doing by these IG's
Posted by: NN2N1   2025-01-25 07:20  

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