Tuesday, April 6, 2010

MC Elected officials don't want to see waste, fraud & abuse


Washington Post: Montgomery inspector general's frank talk turns heads

... But it soon became clear that something was bothering Thomas J. Dagley.
To the surprise of some on the County Council, Dagley said he was working in a politically charged climate that was impeding his work... 
..."The inspector general job is very difficult to begin with," said Paul C. Light, a public policy professor at New York University who has studied inspectors general. "You are speaking truth to power, and people don't like that. It's like straddling a barbed-wire fence."
...Until Dagley's provocative comments in mid-March, he and investigators Chris Giusti and Gary Weishaar toiled largely out of public view, writing dry memos about risks the county faces that could lead to waste, fraud and abuse...

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