Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee and witnesses, including two federal inspectors general, criticized—and offered fixes to—a U.S. Justice Department legal memo that limits the ability of the department’s inspector general to access certain oversight information.
“Congress did not intend to create this sort of litigation-style standoff inside the department,” Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said at a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting. “It is a waste of time and money for two divisions of the same government department to be fighting over access to the department’s own records.”
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