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

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?

Who/how is legal advice provided to the Service IGs?

To call the component IGs in particular IGs is a misnomer...

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

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

What this suggests to me is that the DOD IG is woefully understaffed, and, in fact, when you have the Air Force and the Navy with more staff than the DOD Inspector General, I would suggest we have a problem.

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

As Congresswoman Speier mentioned, in most cases, DOD IG hands retaliation allegations over to local or command IGs who have the least amount of independence and experience in handling what are often highly complex investigations.

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?

How do you implement lessons learned with other oversight roles?

So you have fired, what was the number again?