Ryan Zinke Has Fired the DOI Inspector General

[Trish]

Gave much of their power away to the Administration. All so they don't have to make difficult decisions that affect votes.

I can't argue with that.

[Tahuyaman]

There is no accountability with this FASCIST regime!The rule of law is gone!

High crimes are being commited, and no one left to "blow the whistle!"

And we will never know what those crimes are, until after the regime is over.

What a hoot.

[Tahuyaman]

Obstruction of justice.

You do realize that the investigations are ongoing, right?

[Hoosier8]

There is no accountability with this FASCIST regime!The rule of law is gone!

High crimes are being commited, and no one left to "blow the whistle!"

And we will never know what those crimes are, until after the regime is over.

Yep, following the constitution and congressional laws is so passe for the hysterical left.

[Captdon]

Welcome to the banana republic. Were Obama to do this, the right wing here would be at the rally point in DC ready to march into the White House to perform a 2nd amendment remedy. However, since this is the trump administration, the right wing will just eventually stop by the thread to insult those for even reporting this.

Obama did this for all vacancies until the Supreme Court ruled he wasn't allowed to do it. I was passing by and decided to furnish some information you lib types thought we had forgotten.

[Captdon]

Well we're definitely reading different Constitutions. Here's my contribution to the wikipedia link war:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_of_Nobility_Clause

Wikipedia is a bad choice almost always. But - what has the emoluements clause have to do with anything?

[Tahuyaman]

Welcome to the banana republic. Were Obama to do this, the right wing here would be at the rally point in DC ready to march into the White House to perform a 2nd amendment remedy. However, since this is the trump administration, the right wing will just eventually stop by the thread to insult those for even reporting this.

Obstruction of justice.

Well, Inguess we need to create another outrage. This one's dead.......... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/interio...umored-ouster/

Interior Dept watchdog investigating Zinke is still on the job despite her rumored ouster

[Tahuyaman]

Isn’t something how the liberals abandon a thread when they find out that they got suckered by more fake news?

[donttread]

At last count, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke was the subject of 14 separate government investigations. (A new record!) But that number could soon be zero. That’s because Zinke just fired the Department of the Interior’s acting inspector general.

The news doesn’t stop there. Not only did Mary Kendall, the acting inspector general, not learn she was being replaced until The Hill broke the news this morning, but her replacement will likely be able to fill the role without needing to go through Senate confirmation.

Kendall—who’s served as acting inspector general at the DOI for ten years, and previously spent a decade as deputy inspector general—is being replaced by Suzanne Israel Tufts, a Republican lawyer who worked on the Trump campaign, and then was appointed to the role of assistant secretary of administration at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, Tufts will not need to undergo Senate confirmation to fill the new role, as she was already approved by Congress for her job at HUD.

Tufts, who will now handle oversight of the investigations into Zinke, was appointed to HUD to replace an official who blew the whistle on Ben Carson’s taxpayer-funded $31,000 dining set.

If you think that sounds unethical, you’re not alone. “We are particularly worried that she’s a political appointee without any obvious government oversight experience,” Danielle Brian, the executive director of the non-partisan Project on Government Oversight, told NBC. “And they are sliding her in under the radar of any Senate confirmation process to take over charged investigations into the behavior of the cabinet secretary.”

https://www.outsideonline.com/235593...pector-general

There's some swamp left to drain