I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put me on the no fly list

Re:I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put ... by salawat on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @06:35PM (#26718249)

You're thinking Attorney General. The correct title in the U.S. is Inspector General, and they fall under OIG, the Office of the Inspector General.

Note: outing classified to an Inspector General not cleared, will still get you thrown in prison. Even pointing in a direction to start asking questions or getting cleared may carry legal consequences that OIG has no authority to protect you from, even if in the end you are in the right.

I've often thought the OIG should be charged with and have authority to countermand and investigate executive agency oversteps through unfettered access to all information regardless of classification in the Executive branch, but it'll never happen.

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Re:I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put ... by jkaplowitz on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @07:51PM (#26718826)

What you just described is one of the biggest downsides of accepting a security clearance - and, happily, the First Amendment prevents such consequences for those of us (like me) who have never done so.

I very much respect my friends and colleagues who have made the other choice, but it's a lifelong sacrifice of liberties that are otherwise present.

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Re:I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put ... by dragonwriter on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @06:41PM (#26718294)

> The correct title in the U.S. is Inspector General, and they fall under OIG, the Office of the Inspector General.

Note that each agency has its own IG (usually within an OIG directly under the top-level of the agency), there is not a single central OIG.

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