Word: inspector
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...Inspector General employees have been barred from talking to the press. The office will no longer get involved in Department of Transportation or FAA policy issues, even though the Inspector General's Act says that is one of the office's purposes. Safety issues are now beyond the scope of the Inspector General's office...
...wanted peace with the Inspector General and the NTSB, but it wanted harmony by persuading us to lay off, to leave its officials to do their jobs as they always had. Planes are not falling out of the sky, the FAA kept saying. Aircraft are not crashing. Stated over and over, this agency mantra was a blanket justification for business as usual...
...leaped at the chance to be Inspector General because the job combined the four things I loved most: investigations, law, aviation and public service. Truthfully, the office was tailor-made for me, and I was happy to quit my post as Assistant Secretary of Labor in charge of keeping union elections honest. Everyone encouraged me to take the Inspector General job--but only if I intended to do something with...
...That would be a very interesting challenge," Dole said of the Inspector General job. "You could do some good. But be sure you know what you're getting into." I thought I knew what she meant; only later would I fully understand her warning...
...became the watchdog of the FAA. The FAA, in turn, stood guard over the airlines. But that role could be interpreted two ways: as policing the airlines to ensure safety at all costs or as protecting the airlines from any opposition or criticism. During five years as Inspector General, I came to realize that the FAA believed the statutes ordered it to champion the aviation industry...