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Commerce Inspector General is needing replaced before corruption seriously harms the economy




Federal departments and agencies need the inspector generals attached to them, as it shows the public that there is oversight and stops fraud against the government. The Department of Commerce has an Office of Inspector General that has become questionable in their actions, which means the crime and problems found at other parts of the government may not be properly found there. The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology has seen problems and is calling for a new Inspector General in a rare bipartisan effort.

Current Situation

Here, via a Committee press release, is what they are seeing.

“House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairman Frank Lucas (R-OK) and Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) sent a letter to President Biden requesting he swiftly designate a new Acting Inspector General to the Department of Commerce Office of Inspector General (DOC OIG). This follows the Science Committee’s extensive bipartisan investigation into allegations of misconduct and whistleblower retaliation by senior leaders of DOC OIG.”

“Currently, Deputy Inspector General Roderick Anderson is serving as the Acting Inspector General for the Department of Commerce, following the resignation of the former Inspector General (IG) Peggy Gustafson. Anderson’s placement is highly concerning, as the Committee has credible allegations that he also engaged in retaliatory behavior and misconduct at the agency during Gustafson’s tenure.”

“Over the course of the Committee’s investigation, which included depositions, staff-level meetings, transcribed interviews, and document review, it became clear that much of the senior leadership of the DOC OIG – including Acting Inspector General Roderick Anderson – was entangled in the allegations that had been brought to the Committee’s attention,” Lucas wrote.

“Due to the Committee’s findings of unprofessional conduct by DOC OIG senior leadership, Chairman Lucas and Ranking Member Lofgren strongly urge President Biden to appoint an Acting Inspector General who is unaffiliated with the current office staff.”

“Given the Committee’s preliminary investigatory findings, we do not believe that any senior official within the Department of Commerce OIG is able to lead the office,” Lucas said. “Therefore, to ensure the DOC OIG can fulfill its statutory mission until the nomination and confirmation of a permanent Inspector General, we request that you designate an Acting Inspector General who is not currently serving within the DOC OIG.”

Whistleblower Retaliation

Here, via the Project on Government Oversight, is what happened with the whistleblower.

“This summer, in the course of a bipartisan congressional inquiry into allegations of whistleblower retaliation, a high-ranking federal official forwarded to colleagues a letter from two top lawmakers containing the name of the whistleblower who had accused her of reprisal. The lawmakers had sought to keep that whistleblower’s identity confidential by redacting their name in the public version of the letter. But after a staff member forwarded their boss, Commerce Inspector General Peggy Gustafson, an unredacted version of the letter accusing her of reprisal, Gustafson then circulated it to others within her office. Her employees shared this sensitive information even more widely within, and eventually beyond, the agency.”

The Department of Commerce has lots of areas that if they fail can massively hurt the economy. The OIG is integral to preventing this and many other issues, so this failure of the office has to be fixed, if the Biden Administration has the will or ability to. No matter what political belief a politician has in Washington, most understand this replacement is a priority. A replacement needs to happen soon, or there will be far reaching problems that will take years to fix.


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