Glenn Fine

Former Defense Department Inspector General Glenn Fine

This week, Michael Binder spoke with Glenn Fine, former inspector general of the departments of Justice and Defense and a nonresident fellow in the Brookings…

Search for Accountability

HHS IG, amid coronavirus, weighs ‘opportunity cost’ of each review

Agency Oversight

A man wearing a mask depicting American flags jogs past the U.S. Capitol Building, Tuesday, April 28, 2020, in Washington. The U.S. House of Representatives has canceled plans to return next week, a reversal after announcing it a day earlier. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Latest pandemic spending bill grants IG protections, USPS funding, 2020 census extensions

Congress

Rep. Connolly: Select pandemic committee not ‘a substitute for regular oversight’

Agency Oversight

DoD

Trump’s watchdog shakeup underscores legal limits for IG independence

Agency Oversight

In this Tuesday, March 24, 2020 photo, forms from the U.S. Census Bureau arrive at a home in Orlando, Fla. The coronavirus has waylaid efforts to get as many people as possible to take part in the census. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

2020 Census count keeps on moving despite pandemic

Federal Newscast

DoD

Trump removes watchdog tapped for virus rescue oversight

People

Pentagon investigator appointed to guard against abuse of coronavirus money

Federal Newscast

What’s driving VA’s EHR delay? Congress, IGs begin oversight in earnest this week

Veterans Affairs

Federal whistleblowers quickly losing confidence in their own legal protections, advocates say

Workforce Rights/Governance

Acting, schmacting — this guy changed things

Tom Temin Commentary

DoD IG’s office manages to boost employee favorability

No federal executive wants his or her agency or bureau to languish at the bottom of those rankings of employee engagement.

Federal Drive

DoD’s IG office staffing up data analytics team to ‘proactively look for fraud’

DoD’s Office of the Inspector General is looking to data analytics and AI tools to respond more quickly to the flood of calls it gets from its whistleblower…

Big Data

TransDigm agrees to reimburse Pentagon following allegations of price gouging

Defense

The company previously indicated an unwillingness to issue the refunds, saying that doing so could amount to an admission of wrongdoing.