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3065803, House GOP  Report Defends State Dept. Official 
Posted by rodeodance on Wed Nov-14-07 10:47 AM

Source: Wpost


House GOP Report Defends State Dept. Official

By Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writer 
Wednesday, November 14, 2007; Page A04 

A report produced by the Republican staff of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee concludes that while State Department Inspector General Howard J. Krongard has "an extraordinarily abusive management style," charges that Krongard thwarted investigations into Iraq and was motivated by political bias cannot be supported by the evidence collected. 

The 117-page report by the minority staff, prepared for a hearing today into Krongard's leadership of the IG's office, is an unusually tough broadside against the tactics of Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.). The report contends that Waxman jumped the gun by accusing Krongard in a Sept. 18 letter of a long list of failings before, Republicans charged, the committee had conducted a thorough investigation. 


The report asserts that, other than Krongard's poor management skills, 10 of the 11 charges raised in the Waxman letter turned out to be wrong, misplaced or overstated. 

"These issues were aired publicly with highly charged attacks against the IG for which there was no evidence, other than the unsupported allegations of current and former employees," the minority report says. It says that the "expenditure of time and taxpayer funds proving that the State Department IG is abrasive and abusive is itself an abuse of the Committee's authority." 


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