Staffers in the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s Office of Inspector General told The Hill they are filled with frustration and anxiety as embattled Inspector General Laura Wertheimer remains in her position following an explosive report this spring by fellow government watchdogs who recommended disciplinary action that included firing the Obama appointee.
Several agency employees said they thought the multi-year investigation by the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE) would have prompted the White House to take action, particularly since Wertheimer was found to have gone after staffers who cooperated with a congressional oversight investigation.
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But so far, Biden has not used his authority to remove Wertheimer from office.
POGO urges the inspector general to investigate whether DOJ lawyers lied to a judge to hide the role DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel played in Barr’s effort to mislead the public about Mueller’s report.
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President Joe Biden walks along the Colonnade of the White House Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. (White House photo by Adam Schultz)
When President Biden announced the nomination of Merrick Garland as the next attorney general, Biden criticized incendiary rhetoric against the press as contributing to the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol. A new president and new leadership at the Department of Justice will mean turning a corner on a strenuous four years, in which the Justice Department was repeatedly drawn into then-President Trump’s attacks on journalists and First Amendment rights.
Was the Latest Family Separation Report a Whitewash? Jan 21, 20213:41 PM
Volunteers from Families Belong Together build and fill a chainlink cage with about 600 teddy bears “representing the children still separated as a result of U.S. immigration policies” on the National Mall in Washington on Nov. 16.
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Last week, Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department’s inspector general, finally released his report on the department’s implementation of the Trump administration’s family separation policy. That program resulted in thousands of children being separated from their parents after illegally crossing the southern border, and hundreds have still not been reunited. The report came 2½ years after the policy ended, months after an election in which this information may have been useful to voters, and less than a week before the end of the Trump administration. The report is critical of the handling of the policy by senior officials, but it is al