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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...
After I resigned my position as Inspector General at the Department of Transportation, the report on airport security that my office had readied for the Secretary, the White House and Congress was suppressed. It didn't matter that the decision had already been made not to classify the report. It was buried for several weeks, until after the Democratic National Convention. When it was finally issued, all the incriminating information about the FAA had been blacked out, including the failure rates and the FAA's response to our findings...
Another report that my office was preparing on FAA inspections was also killed. It was critical of the FAA because the agency had not made improvements in the terrible inspection system we had previously uncovered. Even though an assistant inspector general had already testified to Congress about this report, it was not issued...
...administrator Hinson resigned his position in November 1996, and Transportation Secretary Pena has since become Energy Secretary. The job of Inspector General has remained unfilled for more that eight months, and for the time being that office is keeping a lower profile...
...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...