Want to join the team the #InspectorGeneral in #BaltimoreCounty #Maryland ?

A bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university is required. Prior experience in law enforcement or a subject area relevant to the work of the OIG is strongly preferred but not required.

https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/baltimorecounty/jobs/4186190/assistant-inspector-general-investigator-i-non-merit

State Department says the special visa program for Afghans is suffering a backlog https://politicaliq.com/2023/09/01/visa-program-for-afghans-suffers-backlog/ #Afghanistan #Afghan #AfghanRefugees #StateDept #InspectorGeneral #Taliban #Visa #BidenAdministration #Grassley #politicaliq #news #politics

@vikasbajaj
Another big moment: #Tesla appears to have engaged in deceptive practices with respect to exaggerating vehicle range & then deceptively dismissed customer complaints. Seems like a pattern. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/

h/t @profcarroll https://econtwitter.net/@RichStein/110786452010622063

My two cents: Need C-suite level Office of #ChiefEthicist — all companies, all sectors (details TBD). Independent, like #OIG / #InspectorGeneral in USG agencies. Not beholden to CEO. Locus of investigations, etc.

cc: @NewsDesk

What Biden and the Dems in Congress could do is push for an Inspector General for #SCOTUS and the federal courts. The IG’s job is to hold non-elected public servants accountable. Every executive-branch agency has one. The DoJ and the courts need one too. #USPol #InspectorGeneral #accountability #DoJ

DOJ Report on Jeffrey Epstein Jailhouse Death Finds "Numerous and Serious" Failures https://politicaliq.com/2023/06/27/doj-report-on-jeffrey-epstein-jailhouse-death-finds-numerous-and-serious-failures/ #JeffreyEpstein #Epstein #InspectorGeneral #Watchdog #DOJ #CorrectionsFacility #Trump #BillClinton #PrinceAndrew #FBI #politicaliq #news #politics

#InspectorGeneral says #JeffreyEpstein’s death enabled by jailers’ negligence

A #Justice Dept #IG’s report said Tues that Jeffrey #Epstein’s 2019 death inside a Manhattan jail was enabled by significant failures & negligence on the part of staff there, concluding that these blunders essentially created a situation where he “was provided with the opportunity to take his own life.”

#DOJ
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/27/inspector-general-report-jeffrey-epstein-death/

Baltimore City roofing company committed fraud, perjury against Baltimore County, IG says https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/baltimore-county/bs-md-co-ig-report-roofing-20230621-3e5u74jmyfcspfthizjzesjwyu-story.html #BaltimoreCounty #Accountability #InspectorGeneral

#Trump Chosen #DHS #InspectorGeneral Admits To Destroying #FederalRecords
https://www.politicususa.com/2023/06/06/trump-installed-dhs-inspector-general-admits-to-destroying-federal-records.html

NEW: Inspector General Max Huntsman sent letters to 35 deputies Friday, directing them to come in and identify members of the Banditos and Executioners deputy gangs. Deputies must answer, unless they fear self incrimination, Huntsman said.

R/T @unrigla per @katecagle

#LisAngeles #LA #LACounty #LACountySheriff #InspectorGeneral #MaxHuntsman #LASD #GoogleLASDGangs #LASDGangs #KateCagle #UnrigLA

And away we go, again (#DoddFrank is dead long live Dodd Frank II)- "Two senators have proposed creating an #independent #watchdog to monitor the #FederalReserve. Senators #RickScott (R-FL) and #ElizabethWarren (D-MA) argue that the recent #collapse of #SiliconValleyBank (#SVB) and Signature Bank was caused by #RegulatoryFailures at the #Fed, and claim that establishing an independent #InspectorGeneral would help to prevent future #BankFailures. https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/republican-us-senator-rick-scott-democrat-warren-unveil-fed-oversight-bill-2023-03-22/ #FinancialStability

@Nonilex No one would ever accuse the #DOJ or the #FBI as a whole of Obstruction of justice.

While...

The corrupted human mines the Trump "admin" left behind after being kicked out of office... maybe. Possibly. Likely. Definitely.

2 years after people died at/in the Capitol for/ because of Trump's Jan 6 insurrection none of the ringleaders should still be a beneficiary of unaccountability.

#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityNow #JusticeMatters #InspectorGeneral #Corruption #Bribery #Extortion #Coercion #DrainTheTrump
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/1/2155645/-Opposition-to-Mar-a-Lago-search-confirms-the-FBI-is-badly-broken-and-Christopher-Wray-needs-to-go

Lawmakers Call for Inquiry Into #Durham’s Review of #RussiaInvestigation

The Democrats asked the #JusticeDepartment’s #InspectorGeneral to scrutinize whether John H. Durham & #WilliamBarr “violated any laws, #DOJ rules or practices, or canons of legal ethics.”

- Charlie Savage
#BillBarr #Corruption #Trump #Russia
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/us/politics/durham-barr-russia-investigation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

@Catawu Law enforcement agents checked whether they fit in politically sounds like political preferences policing, which should never happen in a democracy.
Gestapo (not gazpacho) was a politicized fake copy of a law enforcement organization.

#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #InspectorGeneral #Oversight #Investigation

Hello #BaltimoreCounty and #Baltimore #Maryland folks, in an hour I'm going to live toot the open meeting of the Baltimore County :baltco: Blue Ribbon Commission on #Ethics and #Accountability which is studying Baltimore County’s existing ethics laws and laws concerning the Office of #InspectorGeneral or #OIG. This is a thing I used to do on Twitter so it will be an interesting experiment here. It'll all have a CW and be threaded unlisted except for the first post. https://www.baltimorecountymd.gov/boards-commissions/executive/blue-ribbon-commission-ethics

Hello #BaltimoreCounty and #Baltimore #mMaryland, in an hour I'm going to live toot the open meeting of the Baltimore County :baltco: Blue Ribbon Commission on #Ethics and #Accountability which is studying Baltimore County’s existing ethics laws and laws concerning the Office of #InspectorGeneral or #OIG. This is a thing I used to do on Twitter so it will be an interesting experiment here. It'll all have a CW and be threaded unlisted except for the first post. https://www.baltimorecountymd.gov/boards-commissions/executive/blue-ribbon-commission-ethics

Inspector General report says Baltimore County spent $70k to benefit businessperson at Council Chairman’s request to repave a private alley from funds which are meant for community associations and groups to help better public throughways https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power/local-government/inspector-general-report-says-baltimore-county-spent-70k-to-benefit-businessperson-at-council-chairmans-request-BP5HJUYD6ZFDNJ5B6XKZRXGDDA/ (Taylor Deville) #BaltimoreCounty :baltco:

Councilman Julian Jones, do better, please.

Inspector General Kelly Madigan, keep up the great work.

#Oversight #InspectorGeneral #Accountability

Inspector General report says Baltimore County spent $70k to benefit businessperson at Council Chairman’s request https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power/local-government/inspector-general-report-says-baltimore-county-spent-70k-to-benefit-businessperson-at-council-chairmans-request-BP5HJUYD6ZFDNJ5B6XKZRXGDDA/ (Taylor Deville) #BaltimoreCounty :baltco:

Councilman Julian Jones, do better, please.

Inspector General Kelly Madigan, keep up the great work.

#Oversight #InspectorGeneral #Accountability

Here in 2022, we have a newly declassified 2016 #InspectorGeneral report—”Misuse of #Sigint Systems”—about a 2013 #NSA program that resulted in the illegal #surveillance of Americans.
Given all we learned from #Snowden, this feels like a minor coda.
https://bloom.bg/3TnkSA0

If you're not familiar with the impact of the #InspectorGeneral office in local government, its essentially this: the OIG offices in both #Baltimore city and #BaltimoreCounty are super thorough and competent and are uncovering #fraud, #waste, and abuse in both places. Unfortunately for them, some of the grift runs so deep that any time a new report is released, some other elected or high-up appointee gets egg on their face. Some history: https://www.baltimorebrew.com/search/Inspector%20General

As elections wind down this evening, #BaltimoreCounty journalist David Plymyer is fighting to keep the oversight of the Office of #InspectorGeneral open to public review.

Sound recursive? It's only scratching the surface of politics around the office of #OIG in the city and county.

He asks: "Why wouldn't a Blue Ribbon Commission on Ethics & Accountability err on side of [openness] and transparency - which are essential to accountability?"

https://davidplymyerdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/complaint-to-open-meetings-compliance-board.pdf