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Trump’s ‘Friday Night Massacre’ Probably Legal, Says Law Prof — But His Power to Replace Fired IGs Is Limited
One Harvard Law School professor was skeptical that the removal of the inspectors general was not legally allowed -- but he ...
Chief VA watchdog who helped expose flawed computer system in Spokane speaks out after being fired by Trump
A year after the Inland Northwest became the testing ground for a new computer system that promised to revolutionize veterans ...
Fired government watchdog: ‘So, Friday night I got an email’
Mark Greenblatt, a former inspector general of the Department of the Interior, described the moment he learned he had been ...
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Trump Firing Spree Victim Tells CNN Brutal Details Of His Termination — Couldn’t Even Clean Out His Desk
Former Inspector General Mark Greenblatt revealed brutal details of his firing by President Donald Trump to CNN anchor Kasie ...
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Interior’s fired IG warns against hiring of a ‘lackey’ watchdog
Mark Lee Greenblatt became the Interior inspector general in 2019, during the first Trump administration. Mark Lee Greenblatt ...
Former USDA Inspector General Defies Trump Order, Escorted from Her Office
Phyllis Fong, a 22-year veteran, said the Trump administration had not followed proper protocols, according to Reuters ...
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Ousted IG: Trump firings a ‘a potentially existential threat’ to government oversight
One of 17 government watchdogs ousted by President Trump said that the move was a “potentially existential threat” to a ...
Fired Inspectors General Raise Alarms as Trump Administration Moves to Finalize Purge
The full scope of the Friday night mass firings was coming into sharper view as one fired watchdog official warned of “a ...
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‘Paranoia and distrust’: How Trump’s mass firing of government watchdogs will affect climate policy
Experts fear the president will replace the fired inspectors general with loyalists who will turn a blind eye to corruption.