Presidentially appointed inspectors-general (IG) at two key intelligence community agencies were collectively overpaid more than $168,000 between 2016 and 2020, but it is unclear if any corrective action has been taken, according to a Department of Defense (DOD) memo obtained by a non-profit government watchdog. Information about the overpayments is contained in a Jan. 25, 2022, memorandum from DOD Deputy Assistant Secretary for Civilian Personnel Policy Nancy Anderson Speight to Marguerite Garrison, DOD Deputy IG for Administrative Investigations, who requested Speight’s review. The Speight memo was obtained and verified by Empower Oversight Whistleblowers and Researchers (EO), the Arlington, Virginia-based non-profit that describes itself as a group that “helps insiders safely and legally report waste, fraud, abuse, corruption, and misconduct to the proper authorities, and seeks to hold those authorities accountable to act on such reports by, among other means, publishing information concerning the same.” A copy of the memo was …
Oversight Watchdog Wants to Know Why Two Intelligence Community IGs Were Overpaid
April 4, 2022
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