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Glenn Fine, the Pentagon’s principal deputy inspector general, resigned on May 26 after being pushed out of the coronavirus relief oversight job Trump had effectively blocked him from doing. The resignation was the latest proof that the administration’s allergy to independent oversight was not a one-off scandal but a sustained operation.
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Glenn Fine, the Pentagon’s principal deputy inspector general, resigned on May 26 after being pushed out of the coronavirus relief oversight job Trump had effectively blocked him from doing. The resignation was the latest proof that the administration’s allergy to independent oversight was not a one-off scandal but a sustained operation.
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Glenn Fine, the Pentagon’s principal deputy inspector general, resigned on May 26 after being pushed out of the coronavirus relief oversight job Trump had effectively blocked him from doing. The resignation was the latest proof that the administration’s allergy to independent oversight was not a one-off scandal but a sustained operation.
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