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LAPD study focused on small part of discipline system
Charlie Beck
Police Chief Charlie Beck launched the review after the February 2013 shootings by former Officer Christopher Dorner, who criticized the LAPD's discipline process.
LAPD discipline survey dealt with serious cases in which officers faced possible termination or suspension
The officers were blunt in their assessment of the Los Angeles Police Department's disciplinary system: It was unfair and needed to be fixed.

"It's all about who you know," wrote one of more than 500 officers and civilian employees who participated in a written survey conducted by the LAPD. "It seems that people with more time on [the job] get more of a break," wrote another.

The criticism was documented by LAPD officials who examined the agency's discipline process in the wake of the Christopher Dorner shooting rampage last year.

But the review analyzed only a narrow segment of the LAPD's expansive system for investigating and disciplining officers.

The report, which took 20 months to complete and will be presented to the city's Police Commission on Tuesday, focused mostly on officers sent to hearings for possible termination or lengthy suspensions after being accused of serious misconduct.

You've got a perception that if you're a friend of the chief's, then all of the sudden it's better. You can't quantify that. So that's a perception issue for the chief to work on.
- Steve Soboroff
The review looked for disparities in whether officers of certain ranks, gender, or race were ordered to the hearings and ultimately penalized, concluding that data showed there was little merit to the complaints of bias.

Left unexamined, however, was the vast majority of the LAPD's misconduct cases, which are handled by officers' commanders.

The president of the union that represents the department's roughly 9,900 rank-and-file officers dismissed the report Monday as a disappointment.

Tyler Izen was critical of what he said were efforts by officials to blame officers' concerns on their poor understanding of how the discipline system works.

"They are saying the employees don't get it…I think [officers] are afraid they are going to be fired," he said. "I would like to see all the raw data because this report doesn't tell me much."


Steve Soboroff, president of the Police Commission, acknowledged that some officers believe the discipline system favors those with connections. But he praised the report, saying that it did a good job of analyzing claims of bias based on gender, rank and ethnicity. He said it would have been impossible to quantify all the complaints of disparities in punishments.

"You've got a perception that if you're a friend of the chief's, then all of the sudden it's better," Soboroff said. "You can't quantify that. How do you do the statistics on that? So that's a

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Anonymous: KKK members may have infiltrated Ferguson cop support group
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LAPD officer in '81 killing had front-row seat on Ferguson controversy
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LAPD officer in '81 killing had front-row seat on Ferguson controversy
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Ferguson: Ex-LAPD Officer David Klinger, now a St. Louis professor, shot a suspect and has written a book abou

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n Combat, the Killing of Michael Brown Would have Been a War Crime

By Dave Lindorff (about the author)

November 26, 2014 at 19:43:25
By Dave Lindorff




What's wrong with Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson's killing of the unarmed 18-year-old black teenager, Michael Brown, and with a Grand Jury decision not to indict him for that outrageous slaying, is what is wrong with American law enforcement and American "justice" in general.

Both actions were permeated not only with racism, which clearly played a huge rule in both the verdict rendered by a Grand Jury composed of nine whites and only three blacks, and in this tragic police killing by a white cop of a black child, but also by a mentality on the part of police -- and apparently by at least a majority of the citizen jurors on a panel evaluating Wilson's actions -- that cops are authorities who must be obeyed without question, on pain of death.

Let's recall the most crucial evidence in this killing: According to the New York Times it was two shots into the top of the head by Officer Wilson that killed Brown -- shots that multiple witnesses confirm were fired after the unarmed Brown was on his knees, already seriously wounded by four other apparently non-lethal shots to arm, neck and upper right chest, with his hands raised and pleading "Don't shoot." The Times also reports that those shots, apparently fired when Brown's head was leaning forward, or from a position above him, appeared to have been fired "not from close range," a determination based upon an absence of gun powder residue around the area of the entry wounds.

It should not matter in the slightest whether or not Brown had first struck Officer Wilson inside his squad car during a scuffle, as claimed by the cop, or even that the officer, as he testified in an unusual appearance before jurors, "felt terrified" at that time. Nor does it matter, beyond being evidence of an inherent racism, that Wilson says he thought that Brown, approaching him at his car initially, "looked like a demon." If the non-lethal shots that first hit Brown in arm, neck and upper chest had been fired at that early point, perhaps Wilson would have been justified in firing them in self defense, but it's what happened after Brown tried to leave the scene that matters.

This is because Brown, multiple witnesses testified, was down on his knees posing no threat whatsoever to the armed officer when Wilson killed him with at least two shots to the head.

That was not a defensive action by Officer Wilson. It was an execution plain and simple -- a punishment for Brown's having allegedly struck the officer earlier, for his attempt to leave the scene of conflict, and perhaps also for Brown's initial refusal to obey the officer's order to get out of the middle of the road, which was reportedly the original reason the officer initiated a confrontation with Brown.

That the jury exonerated Wilson speaks volumes about the sorry, racist state of American society and about the sorry state of the US justice system, where citizens charged with looking into whether a murder has been committed will give a pass to a cop who clearly crossed the line and behaved in a manner that, in war-time, would punishable as a war crime. That is what the Geneva Conventions term the slaying of a combatant whose hands are raised in the universally understood sign of surrender.

Sadly, the Geneva Conventions do not apply to domestic policing. I say sadly, because it is clear that in nearly all jurisdictions in the US, police today are for all intents and purposes a law unto themselves, without even a US Military Uniform Code of Conduct to govern their actions. Rare indeed is the police officer who is convicted of unlawfully killing a suspect or a person in custody, though such killings are soaring in number, even as the deaths of police officers on the job (excluding those who die in auto accidents involving usually pointless and sometimes illegal high-speed chases), have plummeted to levels not seen since the 19th Century.

I remember covering a coroner's inquest in Los Angeles back in 1978 involving the 1977 killing of a small, naked and unarmed man by a hulking LAPD sergeant. The victim, Ron Burkholder, a biochemist who had apparently accidentally burned himself badly one night while trying to make PCP in his basement for personal use. In pain, he had torn off his burning clothes and had then run out onto the street. His erratic behavior led Sgt. Kurt Barz, who was passing in a patrol car, to stop and investigate. Barz testified that he felt threatened when Burkholder (clearly seeking help) ran towards him, and he unloaded his pistol into the approaching "threat," killing Burkholder instantly with six shots.

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#BlackLivesMatter Ferguson Roundup

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Here are just of some of the stories we've posted in the past week at the Dissent NewsWire:


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*Cops in Ferguson Mismanged Protest


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Alex Vitale writes that political and law enforcement officials in the Ferguson, Missouri area had some difficult decisions to make in the period between the shooting death of Michael Brown Aug. 9 and the Nov. 24 announcement that the officer who killed him, Darren Wilson, would not be indicted. Would they make a concerted effort to win over the hearts and minds of African American residents in St. Louis County by addressing the long history of abuses by local governments, police, and the criminal-justice system, or would they double down on militarizing the police and criminalizing protests? Long before the grand-jury decision was announced, it was clear that they were choosing the latter approach.



*'Passionate' Immigrant Activist Accused of Dousing NYC's Top Cop

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Diego Ibanez is accused of throwing fake blood on Police Commissioner Bratton. So Bratton told the media he is "a professional agitator, and I hope he'll be a professional resident of Rikers Island." Read more about Ibanez and his "agitation." ;

*NYPD Seeks Intelligence on Ferguson "Agitators"

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Police in NYC are preparing for a possibly explosive grand jury decision of their own... by travelling to Ferguson to get intelligence on "professional agitators." Steven Wishnia writes on why that is a plain dumb idea

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*Two Arrested on Gun Charges in FBI "Sting"
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How the FBI worked to stoke fears in an already tense situation. Arun Gupta, who wrote extensively about an FBI "sting" against people involved in Occupy Cleveland sees some worrisome similarities.

*Glimpses of our Power

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Are we at the dawn of a new civil rights movement that will forcefully challenge unjust and unfair racially-biased police practices? Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese argue that protests over the past week demonstrate the passion, resolve and political power necessary for real change.







*Darren Wilson Ain't No Ham Sandwich: Prosecutorial Manipulation of a Flawed Grand Jury System

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Kris Hermes has long worked on grand jury resistance, here he shares with us why the system is so problematic.

*Thousands Hit the Streets

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As protests erupted around the country after the grand jury decision, police response was uneven.

*Day 2 of Protests

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In 15 tweets.

*A message from George Takei

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I got an email from George Takei that I wanted to share with you! He is so wise and so empathetic.



*"Take Action! "*Cops Fight to Keep War Toys

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Unsurprisingly, police unions, the Pentagon and defense contractors are fighting to save the program that gives out free military gear to local police departments. We've lost our initial momentum. But we can gain it back.

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*Transparency (This week's special agency: the CIA)*







Secrecy or Transparency? The battle over the CIA torture report.

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Three factions are battling over what can be revealed to the American people about the CIA torture program.

U.N. Human Rights Experts Urge Obama to Support Release of the CIA Torture Report

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"Your decision on this issue will have far-reaching consequences for victims of human rights violations everywhere and for the credibility of the United States," the letter said.

Permission for CIA to Destroy Agency E-Mails is Withdrawn

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The National Archives listened to Senators and advocacy groups who protested the initial decision to allow the agency to destroy emails.







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Missouri police remove Facebook post about Tamir Rice shooting

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Cleveland Cops Put On Administrative Leave After Racist Text Messages Surface With Them Stating They 'Hate Ni*gers'

December 5. 2014

A new scandal has emerged, as text messages between Cleveland police officers, Michael Sollenberge and Thomas Flanders, were packed with racial slurs. One of the text messages states, "I hate ni*gers." Another text stated, "'What do apples and black people have in common? They both hang from trees."

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BREAKING: Huntsville police officer charged with bribery
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Berkeley Copwatch closes California interstate


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As many as 1,500 protest in Berkeley; arrests skyrocket

Protesters rallying against police violence block both directions of Interstate 80 in Berkeley on Monday.


Protesters block traffic on Interstate 80 during a protest in response to police killings in Missouri and New York in Berkeley on Dec. 8.

Police detain dozens of protesters after a group stormed Interstate 80 in Emeryville on Dec.8 2014
CHP: More than 150 people arrested in Berkeley protests that stopped Interstate 80, closed train station
Protesters in Berkeley stop train, halt traffic in both directions on Interstate 80
The size of crowds in Berkeley protesting the killings by police of unarmed black men skyrocketed Monday night along with arrests.

Authorities say the number of those demonstrating against grand jury decisions in the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown tripled from previous days. As many as 1,500 people demonstrated, and arrests rose to 159 as protests turned violent for a third night in a ro

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

Who will Protect and Defend Black Life?
The Black Panthers Had the Right Idea
by THANDISIZWE CHIMURENGA
It’s kind of fitting that police officers Darren Wilson and Daniel Pantaleo, murderers of Mike Brown in Missouri and Eric Garner in New York, were cleared of criminal wrong-doing in the last several weeks. The eruption of protest, activism and organizing in response to the (bad) decisions of legal bodies to not hold these officers accountable for their crimes has occurred at a time of special significance for the legacy of the Black Panther Party (BPP).

October 15th saw the 48th anniversary of the birth of the BPP in Oakland, CA. Originally named the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, the BPP had a self-defense strategy against the brutal terror of the police. The strategy unashamedly and unapologetically maintained that Black people have human rights that are to be respected, including the right of armed self-defense, and BPP members had a right to intervene with those arms if necessary when law enforcement – those touted as the ones whose job was allegedly to protect and serve – violated those rights. In Los Angeles, the month of October also saw the deaths of Ronald and Roland Freeman, brothers who were co-founders and leading members of the Southern California Chapter of the Black Panther Party. Ronald and Roland, who were born one year apart and died one week apart, were also survivors of the Dec. 8, 1969 shootout with the Los Angeles Police Department’s SWAT team on 41st Street and Central Avenue. The pre-dawn attack, the SWAT team’s first major engagement, lasted 5 hours and saw 13 members of the BPP stand trial for attempted murder of police officers. All 13 of the Panthers would eventually be acquitted of all charges in December, 1971 due to the illegal actions of the LAPD.

One day after the New York grand jury failed to indict Pantaleo (Dec. 4) came the 45th anniversary of the murders of Mark Clark and Fred Hampton by Chicago Police. The pre-dawn “shoot in” was the result of collusion between the local police, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Illinois State’s Attorney’s office to neutralize Hampton and the work of the Illinois Panther Party.

Images from films and popular culture saturate our consciousness of stern-looking, black leather-jacketed and black beret-wearing young men (predominantly) holding shotguns, some with bandoliers strapped across their chest. Those images are intended to instill fear and, in today’s climate, a bit of incredulousness. Along with those images are the mischaracterizations and outright lies that the BPP wanted to kill whites and police officers. Racist white police officers – overzealous in the performance of their “duties” – often bore the brunt of the Panthers’ strategy but the BPP understood it was not about individual officers but a system that allowed...

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Little Pennsylvania communities get big weapons from U.S. military surplus
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No charges for Richmond cop who took home pot
By Henry K. Lee Updated 5:14 pm, Thursday, December 18, 2014

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NY City Copwatch Group

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SEE IT: NYPD plainclothes officer delivers body blows to youth as he's being cuffed, gets suspended pending investigation
The video, taken on Monday, shows Officer John McDevitt — an anti-crime cop from the 7th Precinct — running up and punching an assault suspect after the teen was handcuffed against a car and surrounded by three uniformed officers on East Broadway near Clinton St., officials said. (WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC LANGUAGE



Friday, December 19, 2014, 1:41

The plainclothes NYPD cop caught on video repeatedly punching a teenage suspect on the lower East Side has been stripped of his gun and shield as Internal Affairs investigates the circumstances of the arrest, police said Friday.

“That officer has been suspended pending the investigation going forward,” Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said.

Internal Affairs is investigating the circumstances of an arrest, captured on video, that shows a plainclothes cop repeatedly punching a teen suspect in the body.Internal Affairs is investigating the circumstances of an arrest, captured on video, that shows a plainclothes cop repeatedly punching a teen suspect in the body.
The video, taken on Monday, shows Police Officer John McDevitt — an anti-crime cop from the 7th Precinct — running up and punching an assault suspect after the teen was handcuffed against a car and surrounded by three uniformed officers on East Broadway near Clinton St., officials said.

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Dcember 22, 2014, 07:17 pm
Watchdog: Secret Service refused to hand over cybersecurity data


The Secret Service refused to hand over mandatory data on its computer security systems to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) during fiscal 2014, a new watchdog report finds.

The report, released publicly

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2 stories....
one about FBI agents and local Puero Rican cops
handcuffing then assassinating two teenagers
as they begged for their lives on their knees.

We brought attorney /professor/former
president of the National Lawyers Guild to
speak at our 1st Annual Conference Investigating Crimes Committed by FBI agents/police.

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Michael Avery won a million dollar civil lawsuit
for the victims families.

Taxpayers had to pay the million dollars
not the police.

That is what a smart criminal justice consumer does, eh?


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Massachusetts lawyers to protest police killings
Friday, December 26, 2014
BOSTON — Lawyers from around Massachusetts will gather before the state's highest court to support protesters who have held mass demonstrations following recent police killings of black men.

Public defenders, bar advocates and other lawyers, together with paralegals, law students and others who work in the courts have scheduled the demonstration for Tuesday at the Supreme Judicial Court. It's intended to show support for those who have been calling for police accountability and an end to racism in the legal system.

The protest is organized by the Massachusetts chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, the oldest and largest public interest and human rights legal organization in the U.S.


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Police Radar Carries Risk of Abuse, Court Says

DENVER - Police usage of Doppler radar to detect whether someone is in a house could raise "grave Fourth Amendment questions," the 10th Circuit ruled Tuesday.
The case stems from the hunt by police for Kansas parolee Steven Denson. After Denson had stopped checking in with his probation officer while on release from a sentence for armed robbery, police used a utility bill to track him down and search his home.
Though Denson pleaded guilty to illegal possession of firearms, he preserved his right to appeal claims that the entry and search of his home were unlawful.
The 10th Circuit sided with the government but it acknowledged that the government's use of a Doppler radar device to detect whether someone was in the house was problematic.
Writing for the three-judge panel, Judge Neil Gorsuch noted that the cases forces the court confront, though not resolve fully, "how the Fourth Amendment interacts with the government's use of radar technology to peer inside a suspect's home."
Ultimately, the 10th Circuit found that, even without the Doppler reading, other evidence such as a high-electricity reading coming from the house, the suspect's unemployment and the early time of day established reason enough to assume his presence.
Questions about this technology arose again when Denson claimed the police had no right to perform the search that resulted in the discovery of contraband guns.
The government contended that it was entitled to a "protective sweep" to ensure no one else was present in the house, especially since Denson's roommate had an outstanding warrant.
Though the Doppler

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U.S. cops kill at 100 times rate of other capitalist countries

But participation in reporting homicides to the FBI by police and sheriff's departments is voluntary. Of approximately 18,000 police agencies, only about 800 ...

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Ohio police restrained teen after shooting her brother
Published on Thursday, 8 January 2015 16:35 -

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a species that hires bodyguards
to protect them looses the ability
to protect each other

NYPD cops told no vacations until work slowdown ends



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January 11, 2015 | 8:45am
NYPD cops told no vacations until work slowdown ends

It’s a slowdown showdown.
At precincts across the city, top brass are

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Gym mat death investigators seize phones, computers of FBI agent
Atlanta Journal Constitution-2 hours ago
Federal agents on Tuesday seized computers and cell phones belonging
to an FBI agent, his wife and their two sons as part of an ongoing ...

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Agency Watchdogs Ask Congress To Roll Back Decision Allowing Agencies To Withhold Documents From Oversight Entities
from the a-new-low-in-sensitivity-training dept
FBI. DEA. NSA. CIA. DHS. TSA. All these acronyms (and more) participate in activities that can (and do) have negative effects on Americans' civil liberties. But that's OK, says the government, because we have oversight. This assertion just simply isn't true. The Snowden leaks proved what oversight existed was beholden to the NSA and frequently put itself between the agency and legislators on the outside of the inner circle in order to keep its secrets protected.

Elsewhere, the entities charged with providing oversight for government agencies -- the various Inspector General's offices -- were finding themselves unable to pursue their duties because the agencies they watched refused to cooperate with their investigations. Michael Horowitz, the DOJ Inspector General, frequently expressed his displeasure with the DEA and FBI, both of which refused to provide him with the documents he was seeking.

Over at the CIA, Inspector General David Buckley performed his investigation of the alleged hacking of Senate staffers' computers. He found the allegations to be true. The CIA responded by discrediting his report and performing its own internal audit, which naturally found the agency to be blameless and the Senate at fault for supposedly abusing its access to CIA documents. Buckley retired. The CIA has yet to replace him.

As if things couldn't get any worse, the Office of Legal Counsel decided the best route for effective oversight was to hand over control to the agencies being overseen. On July 20th, it issued a decision that said Inspectors General needed to seek permission from the agencies under their purview for access to sensitive documents. If the agencies turned them down, too bad. They'd just have to do without.

The IGs -- representing 72 government agencies -- have sent a letter to Congress asking them to overturn the OLC's decision. (via Unredacted)
Despite the unequivocal language of Section 6(a) of the IG Act, the OLC opinion concludes that it does not entitle the DOJ-IG to obtain independent access to grand jury, wiretap, and credit information in the DOJ’s possession that is necessary for the DOJ-IG to perform its work. Indeed, the OLC opinion concludes that such records cannot be obtained by the DOJ-IG pursuant to the IG Act, and can only be obtained in certain – but not all – circumstances through provisions in the specific laws related to those records. Further, the opinion provides that only the Department of Justice itself decides whether access by the DOJ-IG is warranted – placing the agency that the DOJ-IG oversees in the position of deciding whether to grant the Inspector General access to information necessary to conduct effective and independent oversight. Requiring an Inspector General to obtain permission from agency staff in order to access agency information turns the principle of independent oversight that is enshrined in the IG Act on its head.

The OLC opinion’s restrictive reading of the IG Act represents a potentially serious challenge to the authority of every Inspector General and our collective ability to conduct our work thoroughly, independently, and in a timely manner. Our concern is that, as a result of the OLC opinion, agencies other than DOJ may likewise withhold crucial records from their Inspectors General, adversely impacting their work. Even absent this opinion, agencies such as the Peace Corps and the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) have restricted or denied their OIGs access to agency records on claims of common law privileges or assertions that other laws prohibit access. Similarly, the Department of Commerce denied its Inspector General (Commerce-IG) access to agency records that were needed for the Commerce-IG to complete an audit of agency operations because agency counsel had concluded, based on guidance that agency counsel said came from OLC, that it might be a violation of another federal statute to make the records available to its Inspector General. As a result, the Commerce-IG could not complete its audit.
In other words, things were already bad. Now, they're impossible. These agencies were already doing everything they could to thwart their oversight. Now, the OLC has given them permission to stonewall every single investigation that requires the access to "sensitive" agency documents -- which would be a great majority of them.

The letter goes on to point out that the OLC's decision creates a smokescreen that will have serious repercussions for years to come.
Without timely and unfettered access to all necessary information, Inspectors General cannot ensure that all government programs and operations are subject to exacting and independent scrutiny. Refusing, restricting, or delaying an Inspector General's independent access may lead to incomplete, inaccurate, or significantly delayed findings and recommendations, which in turn may prevent the agency from promptly correcting serious problems and pursuing recoveries that benefit taxpayers, and deprive Congress of timely information regarding the agency's activities. It also may impede or otherwise inhibit investigations and prosecutions related to agency programs and operations.
The OLC's decision is astounding, and should be undone as swiftly as possible. There

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