We must invest to clean up and transform our communities.

What was your total appropriated budget for FY20 and FY21? What were your budget requests for these years?

How many contacts do you receive per year?

How many personnel do you have, and what is the breakdown between enlisted personnel, officers, and DOD civilian employees and contractors?

How do you decide whether to make the results of an investigation public and what format do you use (i.e. website, news release)?

Since 2012, of more than 8,000 reprisal complaints made to the DOD or Service IGs, only 273 were substantiated. Why are so few reprisal allegations substantiated?

And it is now 4:00, so I am going to call the Subcommittee on Military Personnel to order.

My district is majority minority, almost 90 percent Latino, African-American, working class.

I think it sends the signal that retaliation is tolerated and is an inconvenience at most.

Thank you, Inspector General. Thank you all for your presentations.

He absolutely failed in his job. He talked to very few people, he came back with the wrong assessment.

What standards do you use for inspections and investigations?

I still can't get my--you all said that you are all independent.

Have you implemented the GAO recommendations from 2019 to better protect the identity of whistleblowers? If not, when will you implement these recommendations, and why has implementation been delayed?

I think that was investigative malpractice, and for that individual to still be in that position--I am not suggesting he be fired.

How is training for IG staff conducted? What training is offered on investigations, in particular, and what is the duration of the training?

I guess we missed that.

For administrative investigations, what steps do you take to ensure independence throughout the process?