So says the Inspector General Report (but you know the liberal media will be blamed for reading it and reporting about it): Iraq’s national government is refusing to take possession of thousands of American-financed reconstruction projects, forcing the United States either to hand them over to local Iraqis, who often lack the proper training and …
Gonzo
Perjury. Somewhere Fred Hiatt is crying. ***Update*** Dems have asked the DoJ Inspector General to appoint a special prosecutor. As so often seems to be the case, the IG office of a given department is where a Bushie really earns his pay.
The Most Important Job In The Bush Administraiton
Unquestionably the Inspectors General for the various federal departments. If the people responsible for oversight took their job the least bit seriously every federal department would grind to a halt, just like the DOJ when since public pressure forced them to care about the attorney firing scandal. Ergo: Commerce Department Inspector General Johnnie E. Frazier …
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Qui Custodet Ipsos Custodes
If anything illustrates the Bush league style of management strikes again, it has to be the amazing cavalcade of crooks, cronies and fools whom he has appointed to key oversight posts. Commerce Department Inspector General Johnnie E. Frazier retired yesterday in the face of multiple investigations and a formal report recommending that President Bush punish …
Our Government In A Nutshell
Via Drum, a Republican criticizes the current administration: It’s hard for a program staffed mainly by folks in the industry to impartially conduct oversight of the industry The scandal du jour involves too much chumminess between universities and the student loan industry, but he could be talking about any regulatory body in today’s government. Any …
What is the Fuss?
I really don’t understand what the big deal about all this is: The Justice Department’s inspector general has prepared a scathing report criticizing how the F.B.I. uses a form of administrative subpoena to obtain thousands of telephone, business and financial records without prior judicial approval. The report, expected to be issued on Friday, says that …
What A Real Scandal Looks Like
In a recent thread some commenters had a hard time explaining what constitutes an actual real estate scandal. It will help to contrast John Solomon’s Edwards turd with a story like this: Last March, Sue Ellen Wooldridge, then the head of the Justice Department’s environmental division, bought a $1 million vacation home with Don R. …