Horowitz, who also chairs the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, said the 475 people in his office oversee a department with 110,000 employees, in addition to contractors. So when we put something out in public, and Congress sees it and everyone else sees it, then it's up to other people to decide whether it's important enough to assert more leverage on the EPA or the Chemical Safety Board to make change, if they're not already doing that."Īnother frustration is a lack of money. We have the leverage of having a trusted word. Kaplan, however, said EPA inspector general Arthur Elkins "likes to say we're something like the newspaper business, and I'll expand that to the media business. Politics 3 Days Of War Games Test Government Response To Serious Cyberattacks "We need to do effective oversight regardless of who's in power."Īnother high-profile office is at the Environmental Protection Agency, which is being kept busy by various audits of administrator Scott Pruitt, including probing Pruitt's travel, from 2017 through the end of the year.
"I am required under the law, and do day-in-day out here, to focus on what the facts are, what the evidence is, what the information is, without any regard to political views, partisan views." Inspectors general "need to be completely independent," he said. "You take an oath to do the job," he told NPR. Trump February 28, 2018īut Horowitz, who has served in various positions under both Republican and Democratic administrations, says his job is to ignore politics. an Obama guy? Why not use Justice Department lawyers? DISGRACEFUL!- Donald J. Will take forever, has no prosecutorial power and already late with reports on Comey etc. Jeff Sessions asking the Inspector General to investigate potentially massive FISA abuse.
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