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The CIA has not had an inspector general for 2,278 days.The Defense Department has not had an IG for 1,935 days.The Office of Personnel Management has not had an inspector

There's a movement in the West to overthrow democracy, and it's strong in this country. It's no coincidence that the movement's adherents lament the conviction of a murderer who crushed

OSC argues it has no authority to seek a fine against a presidential appointee like Kelleyanne Conway, but DOJ is suing Omarosa Manigault Newman for a fine. Why? Because the

Yesterday, the Washington Post shared talking points @GSAEmily's allies provided about how she's regular folk. Emily undid the FBI HQ's move, preventing a competing hotel from moving in near Trump's

I see a lot of people grumbling at the request for private funding of the transition. All transitions use private funding. They also use public funding. GSA is withholding the

Here's a thread on the greatest threat to govt integrity: the attack on the civil service. It has taken Trump 4 years to figure out how to significantly dismantle the

This is a truly reprehensible tweet. A federal department attacking an individual citizen is incredible—like something out of Belarus. It's also absurd for Interior, which has been one of the

This is extremely dangerous stuff. Civil service protections guard all Americans against political appointees pressuring career Feds to turn a blind eye to fraud, waste and abuse. These laws make

I‘ve been warning for some time that, if Trump is re-elected, he’ll work to politicize the civil service and set America on a path back to the 19th century, when

Donations to campaigns, PACs and Super PACs are legalized bribery that keep the rich and powerful in control. This stuff is poison for democracy. Any serious talk of protecting democracy

Here’s a tale of two agencies. The Trump appointee leading @US_OSC, Henry Kerner, was a partisan bulldog for republican members of Congress. He refuses to speak publicly about the bad

The problem with the both sides-isms is that they draw false equivalencies between one side that is trying to end the republic and the other side that is trying to