Without Fear or Favor: The Last of the Watchdogs Revisited
From Fraud Eats Strategy by Scott Moritz
September 2, 2025 · 23 min · Season 5 · Episode 61
About this episode
Scott Moritz revisits the implications of the firing of Inspectors General with Mark Lee Greenblatt.
In March of 2025, Former Inspector General of the Department of the Interior Mark Lee Greenblatt and I discussed the firing of the Inspectors General and its far-reaching implications for the country. With the blizzard of Executive Orders, high profile government firings and other maneuvers that appear to continue to tear down government agencies, it would be easy to forget about firing of the IGs and the long term consequences. Mark Lee Greenblatt is making it his mission so that the American people don’t lost sight of that fact. At the time of the firing of the IGs, we could only engage in conjecture as to what the long-term implications would be. On January 24, 2025, President Trump fired 16 inspectors general of the 16 largest, most complex U.S. government agencies and a 17th, the IG for USAID Paul Martin, 2 weeks later. The number has since risen to 20.
People in this episode
Host: Scott Moritz
Guest: Mark Lee Greenblatt
Topics covered
- government oversight
- executive orders
- inspector general
- government accountability
- political implications
Keywords
- Inspectors General
- government agencies
- executive orders
- Mark Lee Greenblatt
- President Trump
- government accountability
- firing
- USAID
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Department of the Interior, USAID
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