Salon
•"It's a massacre": Trump fires inspectors general in illegal overnight purge
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Federal law requires advance notice to Congress for the firings of inspectors general.
Critics say the move could be an early sign of a general disregard for oversight of the executive branch.
"It’s a widespread massacre," an unnamed inspector general who got the axe told the Washington Post .
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73
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