The Justice Department’s OIG released its semiannual report recently. Curiously, only Raw Story had anything much to say about it. Their story is here: http://rawstory.com/2009/12/ju…
Their story focused on Bush era wrongs being why the DOJ’s image is tarnished. That WAS true, but if you want to reverse counrse on something, you should first on the brakes.
Top Management and Performance Challenges
The OIG has created a list of top management and performance challenges in the Department annually since 1998, initially in response to congressional requests but in recent years as part of the Department’s annual Performance and Accountability Report.
The OIG’s top challenges for this year are listed below. Many of the challenges from last year’s list remain and are long-standing, difficult challenges that will not be solved quickly or easily. However, we removed the challenges of “Violent Crime” and “Cyber Crime” from the 2008 list, and added the new challenges of “Recovery Act Funding and Oversight” and “Financial Crimes.”
Top Management and Performance Challenges in the Department of Justice – 2009
1. Counterterrorism
2. Restoring Confidence in the Department of Justice
3. Recovery Act Funding and Oversight
4. Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
5. Financial Crimes
6. Sharing of Intelligence and Law Enforcement Information
7. Grant Management
8. Detention and Incarceration
9. Information Technology Systems Planning, Implementation, and Security
10. Financial Management
Raw Story noted that the DOJ rocketed “restoring confidence in the DOJ” to #2 over all, and its multiple problems with Bush era holdovers and corruption.
But all I saw was the irony between challenge # 2 and challenge #4.