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Trump fires 17 (known) IG's on Friday Night Massacre - Who needs oversight?

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by G8trGr8t, Jan 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM.

  1. SotaGator

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    Their phones, email access, and facility entrance authorizations were terminated that night. No time to clear out offices of personal belongings or instruction on how to get their stuff back.
     
  2. cocodrilo

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    What a nice guy, eh?
     
  3. vaxcardinal

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    It’s funny how all of a sudden everyone thinks us government workers are so valuable
     
  4. cocodrilo

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    Everything going on in America's burgeoning autocracy is really funny. Listen to the sycophant Graham, for example. Trump "technically broke the law, but he has the power to do so." IOW he's above the law. LOL, as we didn't already know it. The four indictments? Forget it! The penalties for one conviction? Nothing! What's Trump doing now? Firing all the DOJ prosecutors who tried to make his pay for his crimes. The nerve of those people! This is all so funny.
     
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  5. cocodrilo

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    You know what the worst putdown in the world is? "Come On Man."
     
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  6. cocodrilo

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    This is so humiliating.
     
  7. G8trGr8t

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    another IG that was investigating Musk was of course one of the IG's illegally terminated and she was escorted out of her office today when she refused to quit working.

    is that what you voted for MAGA. favors for Elon? no oversight for the corruption to come?

    not like food and drug safety isn't important. no worries, a tiktok trained devout cultist will be along to make sure the birdflu doesn't get any worse and musk's neuorlink investigation gets dropped. how dare anyone question elmo

    22 years in the IG office, chairperson of the IG group for 6 years, obviously a DEI underqualified partisan non productive employee...oopps fogot, national emergency..got to put that somewhere in every justification

    USDA inspector general escorted out of her office after defying White House

    WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Security agents escorted the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Agriculture out of her office on Monday after she refused to comply with her firing by the Trump administration, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

    Phyllis Fong, a 22-year veteran of the department, had earlier told colleagues that she intended to stay after the White House terminated her Friday, saying that she didn’t believe the administration had followed proper protocols, the sources said. In an email to colleagues on Saturday, reviewed by Reuters, she said the independent Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency “has taken the position that these termination notices do not comply with the requirements set out in law and therefore are not effective at this time.”
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    The USDA inspector general has a broad mandate, pursuing consumer food safety, audits and investigations of the Agriculture Department as well as violations of animal welfare laws. The USDA has been at the heart of concerns about bird flu, which has spread among cattle and chickens and killed a person in Louisiana.
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    In 2022, the inspector general’s office launched an investigation of Elon Musk’s brain implant startup Neuralink, which remains ongoing, sources said. In recent years, the office has also taken on animal abuse at dog breeders for research labs and the listeria outbreak at Boar’s Head, among other issues.
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    The dismissals, handed out less than a week after Trump took office for his second term, appeared to violate federal law, the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency said in a letter to the White House on Friday. Fong served as the first chairperson of CIGIE from 2008 through 2014, according to her biography on USDA’s website.