Book Talk: Watchdogs: Inspectors General and the Battle for Honest and Accountable Government

Authors

Jacob Burns Center for Ethics in the Practice of Law

Files

Event Date

11-20-2024

Description

Inspectors General have been called the most powerful public officials you’ve never heard of. They work inside federal agencies, exposing corruption and ferreting out waste, fraud and abuse. But they’re also vulnerable to removal at the whim of the president. Glenn Fine was the Inspector General of the Department of Justice in the Clinton, Bush and Obama Administrations. He was also the acting Inspector General of the Department of Defense from 2016 until 2020, when he was replaced by former President Trump as part of a series of IG firings that the Washington Post called a “slow-motion Friday night massacre.”

Disciplines

Law | Legal Education

Recommended Citation

Jacob Burns Center for Ethics in the Practice of Law, "Book Talk: Watchdogs: Inspectors General and the Battle for Honest and Accountable Government" (2024). Event Invitations 2024. 34.
https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/event-invitations-2024/34