President Trump fired 17 inspectors general across federal agencies. Here's what an inspector general does and who they work ...

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

The full scope of the Friday night mass firings was coming into sharper view as one fired watchdog official warned of “a ...

Independence is the key to the effectiveness of inspectors general. They need to be non-partisan fact finders and truth ...

By keeping an eye out for waste and fraud, they make efficiency possible.

The inspectors general for at least 17 agencies were terminated in January. While it appears that all eyes are on the federal government as President Donald Trump’s second term enters its first ...

Federal law requires the White House to give Congress a full month of warning and case-specific details before firing a ...

Trump’s firing of the inspectors general is like when “your parents have left for the weekend so you can throw a kegger,” ...

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

Sopko's agency indicted and convicted over 150 people for waste, fraud and abuse, and was able to return $4 billion to ...

Then the Inspector General Act of 1978 created 12 departmental inspectors general. Decades later, there are over 70 federal departments and agencies overseen by IGs. The nonpartisan offices use ...