Ervin’s office has issued highly critical reports on several programs at DHS. In October, for instance, one criticized the department for failing to take charge of the effort to combine the federal government’s numerous terrorist watch lists.
Erwin's damning reports on the nation's ongoing security problems can be found here.
I found out he was being sacked, oddly enough, after driving home and listening to NPR reporting a followup on a story about detainee abuse by US guards. The story was shocking, the "evildoers" (ours, this time) were punished, and when they spoke to Ervin, he was straight up in promising more investigation and basically stating flat out that he would not tolerate this sort of barbarity. I'd been expecting the usual weaseling, but there was none. In particular he wanted his reports made directly available to Congress, without the intermediate step of having his stuff combed over for "national security reasons" first. Nearly drove off the road. It's just not what I've been hearing for 4 years, from the administration, or sad to say, NPR.
ReplyDeleteShould have known he was a dead man walking.