Fri, Apr 03, 2009
GAO Criticized IG Earlier This Year
Three months after being criticized in a Government Accountability
Office report, NASA Inspector General Robert Cobb submitted a
letter of resignation to the White House on Thursday. President
Barack Obama accepted Cobb's resignation, which is effective April
11.
"I have been honored to serve the United States over the past
seventeen years, first at the Office of Government Ethics, then at
the White House, and for the last seven years as Inspector
General," Cobb wrote in his letter. "A new Inspector General will
find an organization with extraordinarily talented employees
dedicated to rooting out fraud, waste, and abuse and promoting the
economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of NASA."
If that's the case, it would appear Cobb's last three months on
the job were busier than preceding ones.
As ANN reported, a 77-page report issued by
the Government Accountability Office in January showed Cobb ranked
next to last compared to inspectors in 27 other federal agencies in
managing costs and looking for ways to save taxpayers money. The
report stated Cobb failed in his role as financial watchdog for the
agency, saving taxpayers only 36 cents for every dollar the GAO has
spent on his department -- when others in his role in other
agencies averaged $9.49 saved per dollar spent.
The GAO also said Cobb spent too much time on investigations
irrelevant to saving money, didn't conduct enough audits, and
failed to make recommendations for saving money on those he
did.
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