Last month, President Donald Trump removed Glenn Fine, the acting Inspector General (IG) of the Department of Defense (DoD). Despite media reports that Mr. Fine had been “fired” he just returned to his previous position as Principal Deputy Inspector General, the #2.
President Trump then appointed Sean O’Donnell, the IG of the Environmental Protection Agency, to serve as acting DoD IG until the Senate acts on his nominee for the position, Jason Abend, from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
By removing Fine, the President made him ineligible to head the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PARC), charged with overseeing the $2 trillion of CARES Act stimulus spending. Fine was appointed to head PARC by Michael Horowitz, the Department of Justice (DoJ) IG and Chair of the Council of the Inspectors General for Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE) and not, according to some media reports, by the acclamation of his fellow IGs. (Horowitz was Fine’s subordinate when Fine was the IG at DoJ.)
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