No. of Recommendations: 7
In a functional government, the OIG (Office of the Inspector General) is truly independent. At NSA - and likely other organizations - the IG was actually outside of the Director's chain of command and did not report to him (and was presidentially appointed, which worked well for all presidents minus one). Ours, Robert Storch, was good. He was nominated by Obama, and reaffirmed by Trump.
He ended up bumping up to be the DoD IG in 2022, by Biden. Of course, in 2025 he got sacked by Trump, because Trump is a mercurial idiot.
I'm not sure there's a shred of functional whistleblower/IG/oversight apparatus left anywhere in federal circle.
