AMID SCANDALS, FIVE CABINET LEVEL IG POSITIONS REMAIN OPEN

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Breitbart:

While the Obama Administration scrambles to respond to a host of multi-agency scandals, five cabinet level agencies are still without Inspector Generals. These agencies are the Departments of State, Interior, Labor, Defense, and Homeland Security. The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Agency for International Development (USAID) are also lacking IG’s.

“The reason that’s significant is because there are specific independent capacities that an appointed and confirmed IG has that somebody who has not been confirmed does not have,” Americans for Limited Government spokesman Richard Manning told Breitbart News. “They don’t have the same flexibility,” he explained.

An Inspector General functions as an agency's independent auditor or ombudsman. If waste, abuse, or corruption is occurring, federal employees should be able to report such instances to their department's IG without fear of retribution. Acting IG’s or Deputy IG’s do not have the same power and job security that an appointed and confirmed Inspector General has. Manning says that an acting IG cannot possibly do the job the way a regular IG would, specifically when he or she is thinking about the possibility of being appointed and confirmed as an IG later on.