Jamie Raskin, in an interview with Brian Tyler Cohen, says inspectors general exist to root out waste, fraud and abuse in federal agencies, and by law can only be fired with 30 days' notice to Congress and a specific reason. He says the administration got rid of 17 of them in the first week, and he thinks an 18th since.
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- Jamie Raskin
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- interview - Brian Tyler Cohen
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They started by decimating the ranks of the inspector's general. These are the people whose job is actually day in and day out, 365 days a year, to ferret out waste, fraud, and abuse in the departments and the agencies. They can only be fired if the president notifies Congress 30 days in advance and gives a specific rationale for why they're being fired. because you can see the danger in allowing the president to remove an anti -corruption fighter within each agency or department. They got rid of 17 of them in the first week. I think they just got rid of the 18th because they were mad at that one. So if you were interested in fighting corruption, those are the people you'd be talking to. They're actually doing it day in and day out. They're not trying to take over the computer systems.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.