Summary account provided by Empower Oversight. Last year, a whistleblower disclosed to Empower Oversight that the inspectors general (IGs) of the National Security Agency (NSA) and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) had received salary payments in excess of the legal […]
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A whistleblower has alleged that two Inspector Generals (IGs) in the government are being paid salaries that exceed the allowable legal limits. Empower Oversight, a watchdog organization that works with whistleblowers, has filed related FOIA requests with five federal agencies (DOD (Defense
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A judge in the Eastern District of Virginia has ordered the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to provide unredacted copies of certain documents to ascertain whether NIH improperly redacted them. This ruling pertains to a lawsuit filed by Empower Oversight,
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The watchdog group Empower Oversight is taking action against the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for evading accountability in its legal obligations to disclose “requested” documentation under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). According to Empower Oversight’s court filing, NIH
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Watchdog groups are demanding further investigation into a now-former Veterans Affairs official found to have potentially violated ethics rules. According to an excerpt from a report by the Inspector General: [There were] potential ethical violations by the former executive director
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We own the information yet it’s getting harder to pry it from the tights fist of federal bureaucrats. And when they flout Freedom of Information law, there is little to no repercussion. According to Empower Oversight, numerous groups have gone
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The following is a public statement released by Empower Oversight. Empower Oversight received just under 200 pages of emails from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) responsive to its FOIA request for records that could shed light on allegations of conflicts of interest associated with the
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The watchdog group Empower Oversight is asking federal agencies for documents to explain why two presidential-appointed inspectors general were paid, from 2016 to 2020, about $168,000 more than the law allows. The Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and
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