Seems to me that when several government attorneys were unfarily dismissed and reputations ruined over at the Justice department that it became a big national scandal. How is it that when these four whistleblower attorneys in the GSA IG's office have had their careers and reputations ruined that it goes largely unnoticed?

You seem to have all the facts but your article lacks a conclusion......use this one.

For almost two years I have followed and reported on the issues swirling around the GSA IG. I constantly dismissed the words of warning from many different sources that the IG was operating largely beyond any oversight and there were serious examples of IG mismanagment. I have long held that procurement people in the government and federal contractors were mostly corrupt and all too eager to rip off taxpayers. My bias has clouded my judgement and I was unable to see that the IG can and often does use investigations as a weapon and IG allegations are often bogus and used to retaliate against honest employees and even government contractors. I have been a fool.

I was there at the beginning of this mess and remember quite clearly how it all started. For years the GSA IG had cleverly found a way to boost his own funding by requiring other GSA divisions to fork over $4-5 million a year to cover questionable spending and excessive bonuses for office favorites within the IG's office. He got away with that because the old Administrator, Mr Perry, was too scared of the IG's retaliation to stop it. (Turns out, he was quite astute). When Mrs. Doan came in, she dove right into the screwed up finances of GSA and started to unwind all the problems that had contributed to GSA losing a clean opinion and landing on the OMB watch list for fiscal discipline. It did not take her long to spy out the unusual deal that required other GSA divisions to fork over an annual tribute to the IG, or risk retaliation. I can remember Doan making a speech about the danger of off balance sheet financial arrangements, where actual spending was masked by special little side deals....(ala Enron). I then retired but watched the predictable unfold. She moved to cut the $5 million kick back and instead asked the IG to operate with the budget that Congress had approved. Since then it has been a war. She may have been right and she did show some courage in taking a principled stand but there are lots of dangers in openly confronting a corrupt IG. In hind site, a lot of trouble could have been averted if she would have just agreed to fork over $5 million ever year into the IG's slush fund.

Strange, the GSA has no open attorney positions posted. Who are receiving these recruitment emails? Why is there not open competition for these positions?

That last comment is very interesting. Mr. O'Harrow, why don't you ask the GSA IG how it is conducting its recruitment for new positions? Could it be that only Miller's hand-picked candidates will be considered for these positions? That would seem to comport with all of his other high-level hires.

Mr O'Harrow --

You need to update this post. Robert Brodsky has another article published yesterday that indicates that Miller is not just corrupt but also a liar. The PCIE never exonerated him of any of the allegations brought by the four attorneys. Rather, it had Miller refer the allegations to another IG's office for investigation. Contrary to Miller's statements, the matter is not closed.

Once again I'm amazed at all the support for Lurita's side of the story. She and her people write these comments making it sound like she's completely innocent of any wrongdoing when the people who work at GSA are ashamed of her and all of the corruption she brought to GSA. She is destroying our agency and she needs go away and let honest people do an honest job, and that includes our Inspector General's office. Thank god she'll be gone after the next election!