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unusual facts about Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense



Albin Francisco Schoepf

Befriended by Joseph Holt, Schoepf served as a clerk first in the U.S. Coastal Survey and later in the U.S. Patent Office and the War Department (working under Holt).

American Civil Liberties Union v. Department of Defense

In late September, 2005, Federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein, though affirming the Glomar response ("can neither confirm nor deny") for some documents, found that the ACLU case for FOIA disclosure was stronger, and that the Glomar application to certain documents was not valid.

Antideficiency Act

The Government Accountability Office, inspectors general, and individual agencies investigate potential violations of the Antideficiency Act every year.

Archival Recovery Team

Operating as part of NARA's Office of the Inspector General, they have had some notable successes in recovering items like presidential pardons from Ulysses S. Grant and Andrew Jackson or a Remington bronco statute given to George H.W. Bush.

C. Herschel Schooley

In 1953 he received his M.A. degree from the University of Maryland, College Park and became the acting director of the Office of Public Information, U.S. Department of Defense, under Secretary Charles E. Wilson; and the director of the Office of Public Information, Department of Defense, for Secretaries Wilson and Neil H. McElroy.

CIA and Contras cocaine trafficking in the US

These allegations were part of an investigation by the United States Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General.

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012

The Act provides $109 million for the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General, the same amount as the previous year and the same amount as the President’s request.

Defense Science Board

The Defense Science Board (or DSB) is a committee of civilian experts appointed to advise the U.S. Department of Defense on scientific and technical matters.

Dreamkind

The app is produced by Sesame Workshop (the producers of Sesame Street) and the U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Centers of Excellence.

ETrace

in September 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued a draft report critical of Project Gunrunner, followed by the final version in November, 2010.

Glomar response

The "Glomar response" precedent still stood, and has since had bearing in FOIA cases such as in the recent American Civil Liberties Union v. Department of Defense, wherein Federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein rejected the Department of Defense and CIA's use of the Glomar response in refusing to release documents and photos depicting abuse at Abu Ghraib prison.

Inspectorate

Inspectorates are commonplace in government; for example, in the United States, there are some 73 standard form Office of the Inspector Generals charged with examining the actions of a government agency, military organization, or military contractor as a general auditor of their operations and headed by an Inspector General.

Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act

Under the provisions of section 8H applicable to the FBI, an FBI employee or contractor who intends to report to Congress a complaint or information of “urgent concern” involving an intelligence activity may report the complaint or information to the DOJ Office of the Inspector General.

James Wieghart

He reported on the U.S. Department of Defense during the waning years of the Vietnam War (writing from Vietnam for several weeks in 1971) and covered the White House during the Watergate scandal.

Kaiser Permanente

During that same period, the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Inspector General settled 102 cases against U.S. hospitals which resulted in a monetary payment to the agency.

Law Enforcement Availability Pay

Availability pay is generally an entitlement that an agency must provide if the required conditions are met, but is optional in any agency's Office of the Inspector General that may employ fewer than five criminal investigators.

Nathan Wolfe

Wolfe has been awarded more than $40 million in funding from a diverse array of sources including The U.S. Department of Defense, Google.org and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

National Security Personnel System

Also, employees working at DoD agencies, such as the Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Tricare, the Office of the Inspector General and the Office of the Secretary of Defense, earned higher performance ratings and payouts overall than did their civilian counterparts in the three military service branches: United States Army, United States Navy, and United States Air Force.

Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense

The Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency includes 73 statutory Inspectors General of a number of large governmental agencies as well as smaller independent agencies.

Pennington Biomedical Research Center

With a U.S. Department of Defense contract and funding from the Louisiana Public Facilities Authority, Governor Buddy Roemer proclaimed the official opening of the Center in 1988.

Roger Masters

He was a founding member and serves on the Executive Council of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, and leads an ongoing consultancy on biology and politics for the U.S. Department of Defense in collaboration with anthropologist Lionel Tiger and neuroscientist Michael T. McGuire.

Rural health clinic

The Government Accountability Office and the HHS Office of the Inspector General both released studies that showed that RHC status was being used by non-rural clinics to retain enhanced reimbursement.

San Diego Pride

In 2012 the U.S. Department of Defense granted permission for military personnel to wear their uniforms while participating the San Diego Pride Parade.

SEC Office of the Whistleblower

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission had an established Bounty (reward) program for more than 20 years that was designed to reward whistleblowers for insider trading tips and complaints, an Office of the Inspector General's 2013 report found there were very few payments made under the program and the Commission received very few applications from individuals seeking a bounty.

In the Office of the Inspector General Evaluation of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Whistleblower Program, Jan, 18 2013 the program was outlined by the Inspector General providing some insight into it inner workings.

Stellar Wind

In June 2013 the Washington Post and the Guardian published an OIG draft report, dated March 2009, leaked by Edward Snowden detailing the Stellar Wind program.

Theodore S. Westhusing

Westhusing served with what the U.S. Department of Defense called the "Multi-national Security Transition Command - Iraq".

Tom Kilgore

Earlier in his career, Kilgore worked for Arkansas Power & Light (a subsidiary of Entergy), Carolina Power & Light, and for the U.S. Department of Defense at Pine Bluff Arsenal in Jefferson County, Arkansas.

United States Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Justice (DOJ) is the Office of the Inspector General specific to the United States Department of Justice that is responsible for conducting nearly all of the investigations of DOJ employees and programs.

United States Intelligence Community

Primary Executive oversight is performed by the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, the Joint Intelligence Community Council, the Office of the Inspector General, and the Office of Management and Budget.

United States Postal Service Office of Inspector General

As one of the federal Offices of the Inspector General, the purpose of the OIG is to prevent, detect, and report fraud, waste, and program abuse, and promote efficiency in the operations of the USPS.

Violent Crime Impact Teams

According to the Office of the Inspector General, the ATF did develop objectives for the VCIT Strategy (six- point approach) to combat violent firearms crime, but the ATF did not execute the Strategy, primarily due to ATF’s inconsistent oversight of its Field Divisions on adapting the VCIT Strategy to local operations.


see also

DCIS

Defense Criminal Investigative Service, the criminal investigative arm of the Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense