Foreign Service Officers Call on Embattled IG to Resign

[babylonsister]

Foreign Service Officers Call on Embattled IG to Resign
By William Fisher
t r u t h o u t | Report

Sunday 23 September 2007

The organization that represents America's diplomats is calling on the State Department's inspector general to step down "pending the resolution of grave allegations of malfeasance leveled against him by numerous current and former career government officials."

John K. Naland, president of the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA), said allegations against the inspector general (IG) cover all investigations, audits and inspections. "They include allegations of his blocking investigations into possible sub-standard construction at the US Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, which may leave employees there unacceptably vulnerable," Naland said.

He noted the 13-page list of allegations released earlier this week by Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-California), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, "revealed that AFSA also has been approached in recent days by several concerned former State Department employees with direct knowledge of some of the events in question."

Naland was referring to the letter Waxman sent to the embattled IG, Howard J. Krongard, suggesting he repeatedly blocked investigations into waste, fraud and mismanagement in Iraq and Afghanistan, including construction of the massive new US Embassy in Baghdad to protect the Bush administration from political embarrassment. Waxman plans to convene hearings next month into the charges leveled against Krongard.

more...

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092307A.shtml

[Turbineguy]

1. Protecting the Bush Admin from embarrassment

We need an entire government agency for that. No one man can do that alone.