Word: inspectors
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...found that Kelso was on the third floor of the Las Vegas Hilton when women -- not just Top Gun groupies but also 15 female officers -- were assaulted. The judge accused Kelso of lying about his presence there and of trying to manipulate the investigation to shield himself. A Pentagon inspector-general report found otherwise, but Kelso decided against a further inquiry to sort out the discrepancies in favor of stepping down two months early. He bargained for a statement of praise from the Secretary of the Navy, who earlier had urged him to resign for a "failure of leadership...
...criticism comes even from the inside. Last fall the Pentagon inspector general found the academies wasting millions of dollars annually employing nearly 400 military personnel whose jobs should have been eliminated or filled by less costly civilians. But West Point's superintendent, Lieut. General Howard Graves, has refused to surrender his $37,000-a-year sergeant-chauffeur, even though he has three other enlisted aides. "This position is essential to the mission of the U.S. Military Academy," Graves told the bemused auditors. His three other personal aides, he added, "cannot be stewards and drivers at the same time...
...accident occurred because a homemade mixture of cleaning substances used to ignite the lions burned out of control. A Nashville fire inspector categorized the substance as a type of napalm...
...until public outrage led the Inspector General of the Navy to investigate that the truth began to be uncovered...
While Lightning Strike is not expected to uncover dishonesty that widespread, it is another sign that NASA has become infected with the same corrupting virus that struck the Pentagon. Two months ago, the space agency's inspector general told a congressional subcommittee that he had launched more than 400 investigations into waste, fraud and abuse. NASA's books were in such disarray, he said, that it could not account for assets worth roughly $12 billion...