"It's quite stark and severe, if you will. This is sort of like the bureaucratic version of a perp walk," said former ...

Recently fired Inspector General Mark Greenblatt joins Sam Stein to discuss the Trump administration’s unprecedented purge of inspectors general, the importance of having independent oversight, and ...

Phyllis Fong, a 22-year veteran, said the Trump administration had not followed proper protocols, according to Reuters ...

Created among the post-Watergate government reforms aimed at increasing oversight and decreasing corruption and ...

The impact of Trump’s inspector general firings remains up in the air as some argue the dismissals were illegal.

A few of the inspectors general dismissed by Trump had a history of donating to Republicans. Mark Greenblatt, whom Trump previously appointed to serve as inspector general for the Interior ...

President Donald Trump fired the inspectors general from more than a dozen federal agencies in a Friday night purge, according to a Trump administration official, paving the way for him to install his ...

“I view it as a potentially existential threat, with respect to the main oversight mechanism that we have in our federal government system,” Mark Greenblatt, the former top watchdog at the ...

Many inspector general offices will be headed by acting leaders in the interim, which could weaken the effectiveness of their ...