“He was a very serious IG at GSA,” said Danielle Brian of the Project on Government Oversight, an expert on inspectors general. ADKeith Ashdown, former staff director for the Senate Homeland Security Committee, which has oversight over inspectors general, offered similar praise. After leaving the inspector general job at GSA in 2014, Miller spent several years in the private sector before joining the Office of White House Counsel December 2018. ADThat raised alarms for experts including Neil M. Barofsky, who was inspector general for the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program passed at the height of the financial crisis in 2008. The new coronavirus inspector general is modeled on the one used for TARP.

Source: Washington Post April 04, 2020 20:25 UTC