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The new head of the General Services Administration — a political appointee named Lurita Alexis Doan (Before going into public service, she was a government contractor ) is trying to rein in her agency's independent inspector general Brian Miller, who's tough audits produced those reports of government waste. She is trying to cut his budget by five million dollars. Mind you, he's watching over the 56 billion dollars in government contracts that the agency manages. She claims Miller's tough reports are intimidating government workers
Ms. Doan seems to worry more about the auditors being disruptive. According to the Post, she told a staff meeting, "There are two kinds of terrorism in the United States — the external kind, and internally, the Inspector Generals."



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