It is vital that the department and its employees strictly adhere to policies and procedures designed to protect the department from accusations of political influence or politically motivated application of the law. That was in the report from the year 2007 through 2024. The 2025 report, under the new President Donald Trump in his second term, no longer includes this section. You rejoined the Justice Department as Acting Inspector General in October of 2025. Were you involved in eliminating this section from the OIG annual report? (00:44–00:53)
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Asserts that the 2025 OIG report under President Trump no longer includes the section on avoiding political influence.
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