Reply #2: US probes 'halted' to spare White House = seven officials have sought whistleblower status [View All]

US probes 'halted' to spare White House
By Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington
5 minutes ago
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20858035/

The chief internal watchdog at the state department has been accused by former and current officials of systematically interfering with investigations to protect the White House from political embarrassment.

Henry Waxman, the chairman of the House oversight committee, said the officials had contacted his office to complain that Howard Krongard, the state department's inspector-general, "repeatedly halted or impeded" investigations undertaken by his office, including probes into wasteful spending and procurement fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Mr Waxman said some of the seven officials who have contacted his office have sought whistleblower status to protect their jobs after alerting congressional investigators to a broad range of allegations about Mr Krongard's behaviour.

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