From the WashPost: How a watchdog whitewashed its oversight of FEMA’s disaster response with ‘feel good’ reports.
Update from Wash Post on 6/7:
The Homeland Security watchdog has agreed to an outside review of its performance following missteps that led it to retract 13 audits of disaster responses that hid problems and instead flattered the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The outside review will be done by another federal inspector general’s office to ensure that Homeland Security’s monitor has improved its overall operations and oversight of FEMA, officials said.
Well, that explains a lot. Thank you, Claire.
Sad but not surprising.