Obama-era Pentagon deputy IG resigns lower than 2 months after sudden demotion from prime coronavirus watchdog publish

Principal Pentagon Deputy Inspector Basic Glenn High quality has tendered his resignation lower than two months after his controversial elimination from a prime watchdog publish overseeing the Trump administration’s $ 2 trillion Covid-19 bailout.

“After a few years within the [Department of Justice] and [Department of Defense] OIGs, I consider the time has come for me to step down and permit others to carry out this important function,” High quality mentioned in a press release on Tuesday.

High quality turns into the most recent of a number of inspectors normal to exit the administration in an ongoing shakeup that has the president’s opponents crying foul. Final month, he was demoted as Pentagon Inspector Basic, a transfer that additionally ended his tenure as chair of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee. In that function, he was tasked with monitoring the administration of the $ 2-trillion CARES Act emergency support bundle.

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Since then, Trump has additionally fired State Division Inspector Basic Steve Linick on the request of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, whom Linick was investigating over a fast-tracked $ Eight-billion arms cope with Saudi Arabia. The choice was predictably controversial and has kicked off yet one more investigation into the president by Democratic congressmen charging Linick’s firing was “politically motivated.” Nonetheless, Linick was additionally pushing a sketchy “file” throughout the early days of Trump’s impeachment probe, apparently attempting to additional enmesh the president and his advisers in murky misdeeds. Pompeo has denied he ordered Linick’s firing as retaliation for the investigations.

Christi Grimm, the Inspector Basic for Well being and Human Providers, was additionally proven the door earlier this month after her workplace launched a report detailing extreme PPE shortages at hospitals coping with the Covid-19 disaster, main Trump to assault her on Twitter for supposedly not speaking to main administration figures first. Inspector Basic for the Justice Division Michael Atkinson additionally received the boot final month, being positioned on go away upfront of his dismissal shortly earlier than High quality’s demotion. Atkinson had shared the (secondhand) “whistleblower grievance” relating to Trump’s cellphone name with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that kicked off the impeachment inquiry with Congress, and Trump wrote in a letter to lawmakers that he now not had “the fullest confidence” within the IG.

High quality was changed earlier this month as chair of the Pandemic Response Committee by Brian Miller, a White Home lawyer who helped defend Trump throughout the impeachment probe. Sean O’Donnell, the Inspector Basic for the Environmental Safety Company, took over as Appearing Inspector Basic for the Protection Division.

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