"President Trump may disrespect the George H.W. Bush-inspired "points of light" program, but his lieutenants have given a remarkable and controversial boost to a past honoree who will now reportedly serve as the Interior Department's internal watchdog.

By moving Suzanne Israel Tufts from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to the sensitive post of Interior's acting inspector general, Trump would shake up the usual IG protocol. Tufts is an attorney with neither law enforcement nor auditing experience.

'This is a very big deal,' former Justice Department Inspector General Michael Bromwich wrote in a tweet yesterday. 'Politicizing the oversight function is dangerous, especially in the absence of any congressional oversight.'"

Michael Doyle reports for Greenwire October 17, 2018. [2]