#inspectorgeneral — Public Fediverse posts
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The official, a unit chief who directly oversaw more than 100 employees who evaluated thousands of #ICE applicants, was so troubled by what he saw that he outlined these concerns not to his superiors, but in a formal #whistleblower complaint to the Office of #InspectorGeneral in the #DHS.
#Trump #law #immigration #Sturmabteilung #ExtraJudicialKillings #DueProcess #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #fascism #tyranny #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/09/03/us/ice-recruits-whistleblower-complaint.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-VA.Kf_q.RleXDEq3_hqW&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
#Trump Fired the #Watchdogs. Their Replacements Have a Different Mission.
Trump is installing his allies in the offices of #InspectorGeneral, which are meant to provide #independent #government #oversight.
#law #corruption #RevengePolitics #LegalEthics #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/us/politics/trump-inspector-general.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7lA.mZJ-.CdEXIhVgqg4R&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
Trump Report Admits It’s Really the Corporations
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/08/trump-report-admits-its-really-the-corporations/
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Senator Urges Inspector General for Iran War Oversight
Senator Tammy Duckworth is calling for greater transparency in the US military operation against Iran, urging the Council of Inspectors General to appoint a lead inspector general to oversee the mission and ensure accountability for taxpayer dollars. She has set a deadline of June 5 for the appointment, emphasizing the importance of regular audits and…
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This should be read as both an oversight story and a credibility story. The review follows criticism over uneven releases, survivor privacy concerns, and files that were delayed or mistakenly withheld, which together damaged confidence in DOJ’s management of the process.
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It was only one of many issues that the dept’s Office of #InspectorGeneral [#OIG] appears to have ignored, they said.
“The epidemic of alleged #misconduct has been met with a shrug by the agency whose job it is to address such allegations,” they said in their letter, which was sent to the #Republican & #Democratic leaders of the #House & #Senate #Judiciary Committees.
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#DOJ Watchdog Has Gone Silent, Lawyers for #WhistleBlower Say
Lawyers for a fired Justice Department lawyer say the agency’s #InspectorGeneral appears to have ignored at least 20 different requests to scrutinize #misconduct.
#Trump #law #LegalEthics
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/us/politics/trump-administration-doj-watchdog-reuveni.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
70 US lawmakers demand probe into I#CE's data purchases
ICE illegally purchased #Americans' location data without first obtaining #warrants.
#DHS #inspectorgeneral also found serious privacy oversteps - including employees sharing accounts and passwords for phone-tracking databases, supervisors failing to request or review audit logs to detect patterns of abuse, and in one instance, a DHS employee abusing this #phone #location data to track coworkers.
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#InspectorGeneral Investigating Whether ICE's #Surveillance Tech Breaks the Law
#DHS’s #IG is investigating potential #privacy abuses associated with #Immigrations & Customs Enforcement’s surveillance & #biometric data programs, according to a letter sent to two senators.
Last week, we reported that Senators Mark Warner & Tim Kaine demanded that DHS inspector general Joseph Cuffari investigate immigration-related surveillance programs across DHS, #CBP , # #ICE.
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"Days after #Trump returned to the presidency in January 2025, he fired a raft of inspectors general across #government, which #Democrats said was an effort to “purge” his administration of independent watchdogs to conceal wrongdoing.
Last year #Gabbard also fired the acting counsel in the intelligence community’s #InspectorGeneral ’s office, and appointed a senior adviser within the office who reported directly to Gabbard. Democrats said the moves violated the #law."
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/classified-whistleblower-complaint-about-tulsi-gabbard-stalls-within-her-agency-027f5331?st=SYNN9K&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink -
Hegseth’s written answers to the #Pentagon #InspectorGeneral made 3 points, the report said.
1) #Hegseth acknowledged that he had received information about upcoming war plans on March 14 from #US #CENTCOM.
2) he asserted that as #defense secy “he has authority to decide whether information should be #classified & whether classified materials no longer require protection.”
#Trump #SignalGate #law #MilitaryLaw #military #OpSec #NationalSecurity #InfoSec #Signal #DoD #idiocracy #kakistocracy
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That meant the #InspectorGeneral had to rely in part on a transcript of those messages published by #TheAtlantic magazine. The second major obstacle was Hegseth’s refusal to be interviewed in person. Instead, #Hegseth submitted a written response to questions in July, months after the incident.
#Trump #SignalGate #law #MilitaryLaw #military #OpSec #NationalSecurity #InfoSec #Signal #HouthiPCsmallGroup #Pentagon #Defense #DoD #idiocracy #kakistocracy #USpol
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The report went on to say that the next day #Hegseth sent some of that #classified operational information from his PERSONAL CELLPHONE to the #Signal chat group.
The #InspectorGeneral’s evaluation of #Defense Secy Pete Hegseth’s actions on March 15 were complicated by at least 2 factors. First, the #DoD provided only a partial copy of messages from Hegseth’s cellphone to #Signal because some of messages had “auto-deleted.”
#Trump #SignalGate #law #military #OpSec #NationalSecurity #InfoSec
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The #Pentagon’s acting #InspectorGeneral found that the head of #US #CENTCOM, which oversaw the impending strikes into #Yemen, sent a secure message to #Hegseth & the acting chair of the #JointChiefs at roughly 9PM on March 14, approximately 17hrs before the op began, containing info about the planned attacks that was #classified as #secret, with no dissemination allowed to foreign nationals.
#Trump #SignalGate #law #MilitaryLaw #military #OpSec #NationalSecurity #InfoSec #Signal #idiocracy
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The #Pentagon’s #InspectorGeneral’s report into #PeteHegseth’s use of the #Signal app to share details of upcoming #airstrikes into #Yemen on March 15 found the #defense secy “sent a message containing operational information” to a group chat which included 19 people, including #JeffreyGoldberg, editor in chief of #TheAtlantic. It said that #Hegseth did so FROM HIS HOME on an Army base in Washington while accompanied by “his junior military assistant, & his personal communicator.”
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The #Defense Dept’s #InspectorGeneral released a long-awaited report Thursday morning about Secy #PeteHegseth’s disclosure of plans for airstrikes in #Yemen on a #Signal chat group. The office simultaneously released a second report on “the use of unclassified networks & non–#DoD-controlled electronic messaging systems to discuss sensitive & classified information.”
https://media.defense.gov/2025/Dec/04/2003834916/-1/-1/1/DODIG_2026_021.PDF
#Trump #Hegseth #SignalGate #law #MilitaryLaw #military #OpSec #NationalSecurity #InfoSec #idiocracy
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Here is coverage of the #InspectorGeneral report from #TheAtlantic who originally broke the #HouthiPCSmallGroup #Signal story
#Hegseth Risked Endangering Troops With Signal Messages
An inspector-general report finds that the #defense secretary violated his own department’s policies.
#law #MilitaryLaw #OpSec #NationalSecurity #SignalGate #Trump #DoD #Pentagon #idiocracy #kakistocracy
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2025/12/hegseth-signalgate-trump-defense-pentagon/684997/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxTIcgKrqBOvn__3F2rOVnNM -
#Hegseth refused to sit for an interview with the #InspectorGeneral & submitted “his version of events” in writing, sources told CNN.
The #IG’s findings are memorialized in a broader report produced after its months-long investigation into Hegseth’s use of #Signal.
The report states that Hegseth should not have used Signal & that senior #Defense Dept officials need better training on protocols, the sources said.
#law #MilitaryLaw #OpSec #NationalSecurity #SignalGate #Trump #idiocracy
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CNN Exclusive: #Watchdog finds #Hegseth risked endangering troops by sharing sensitive #WarPlans on #Signal
Secy of #Defense #PeteHegseth risked compromising sensitive #military information, which could have endangered #US troops & mission objectives, when he used Signal in March of this year to share highly-sensitive attack plans targeting #Houthi rebels in #Yemen, acc/to 4 sources familiar with contents of #classified #InspectorGeneral report.
#law #OpSec #SignalGate
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/politics/watchdog-report-hegseth-signal -
His ouster also came about as he was preparing to send a letter to #Congress, of which Pulte was aware, notifying lawmakers that the #FHFA was not cooperating with the #InspectorGeneral's office, 3 of the sources said.
…Pulte has circumvented the agency's Office of Inspector General in pursuing those three cases, Reuters previously reported.
#Trump #law #RevengePolitics #USpol #authoritarianism #fascism #tyranny
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The ouster of Joe Allen, #FHFA's acting #InspectorGeneral, follows the agency's director, Bill Pulte, becoming an outspoken voice in support of the #Trump admin. Across the government, the Trump admin has so far fired or reassigned close to two dozen agency #watchdogs, who police #waste, #fraud & #abuse. It has also defunded the group that supervises those offices.
#law #RevengePolitics #USpol #authoritarianism #fascism #tyranny
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#ParisaSalehi was the kind of internal #watchdog who had earned a strong reputation for digging up #fraud, #waste & abuse during her 15 years in govt service. She had risen through the ranks at inspectors general offices at the #State Dept & #USAID, eventually taking over internal investigations at the #ExportImport #Bank of the US, where her office reported saving tens of millions of dollars.
#Trump #law #InspectorGeneral #oversight #accountability #corruption
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Nothing to see here, move along…
#Trump Dismisses Yet Another #InspectorGeneral, Fueling #Oversight Alarms
With the firing of the #ExportImport #Bank’s inspector general, Trump has sidelined around two dozen of the #watchdogs who seek out #fraud & #mismanagement in #FederalAgencies.
#law #accountability #corruption
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/us/politics/trump-inspectors-general.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare -
Exclusive: #Trump official bypassed #ethics rules in #criminal referrals of #Fed governor & other perceived foes
The Trump appointee accusing the president’s political foes of mortgage fraud skipped over his agency’s #InspectorGeneral when making criminal referrals, according to 7 people familiar with the matter, bypassing rules meant to ensure that federal officials don’t abuse their power for partisan purposes.
#law #RevengePolitics #AbuseOfPower
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-official-bypassed-ethics-rules-criminal-referrals-fed-governor-other-foes-2025-10-06/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement -
In Reuveni’s telling, #EmilBove used an expletive as he discussed disregarding court orders, & other top law enforcement officials showed themselves ready to stonewall #judges or lie to them to get their way.
Reuveni’s account, which was reviewed by NYT, was filed to lawmakers & the #DOJ #InspectorGeneral on Tues, just one day before Bove is scheduled to testify before the #Senate #Judiciary Committee for a nomination to a federal appeals court.
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“Having a senior official placed in any #InspectorGeneral’s office who reports to the agency head, in this case #DNI, would undermine the entire construct of #independence that is integral to the IG’s #oversight mission,” said Mark Greenblatt, a former #Trump-appointed Interior Department inspector general & former chairman of the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity & Efficiency [#CIGIE].
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The latest apparent political installation in the #intelligence community #InspectorGeneral’s office comes amid broader concerns about the #independence of government watchdogs. #Trump purged most inspectors general at Cabinet-level agencies in January, & in recent weeks has nominated 6 new inspectors general, including 3 with clearly #partisan backgrounds.