Not amusing at all.
...The State Department recently informed SIGAR, which was created by Congress to provide independent and objective oversight of Afghanistan reconstruction projects and activities, that it would not cooperate with future financial audits. Instead, Sopko writes, the State Department told him from now on it would choose its own auditors. The watchdog reminds the State Department that it is prohibited by law from preventing his office from carrying out its duties and that its authorizing statutes specifically states no officer from the Department of Defense, the Department of State, or the United States Agency for International Development shall prevent or prohibit the Inspector General from initiating, carrying out, or completing any audit or investigation related to amounts appropriated or otherwise made available for the reconstruction of Afghanistan. “It should go without saying, but neither SIGAR’s authorizing statute nor the Inspector General Act of 1978 contain a “choose your own auditor” provision,” Sopko writes to Blinken....
The State Department for decades has been--by far--the most arrogant bunch of jerks in the entire Federal Government. CIA is dirtbags and showboaters, FBI consists of largely weak field agents and totally corrupt C-Suite people and the rest of Government is largely drones. (IRS is another matter entirely.)
But State always thought that THEY were the US, not Congress, not the President, and certainly not the flyover-country rabble. After all, they had certificates from Georgetown and Harvard!
Trump wishes to reform Government? Start by eliminating about 50% of the State Department.
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