Well, isn't this irony at its ugliest?
In November of 2003, the US Congress, sickened at ongoing reports of waste, fraud and corruption in America's occupation of Iraq, created the office of Inspector General of the Coalition Provisional Authority to investigate such claims. In January of 2004, Stuart Bowen, a legal adviser for George Bush when he was governor of Texas, was appointed as the Iraq IG.
Initially praised by both Democrats and Republicans for uncovering wrongdoing and mismanagement, the office itself is now under investigation for, you guessed it, wrongdoing and mismanagement.
As reported by the AP and other sources, most thoroughly by Robin Wright for the Washington Post, Bowen's office is being investigated by both the FBI and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee for allegations that employees' emails were illegally snooped and that overtime policies were improperly manipulated to generate salaries of over $250,000 a year for some.
The FBI is also looking into allegations that Bowen and his deputy, Ginger Cruz, illegally used taxpayer money to pay their legal expenses in an administrative investigation of the office last year, according to the AP.
According to the Post story, some charges have already been referred to a Virginia grand jury.
The irony of an investigation of corruption in the office charged with investigating corruption is delicious for schadenfreude afficienados, but this story underlines a more important lesson than the question posed in the diary's title. If anything, it reinforces something we've been saying all along:
Do not trust anything that comes out of this administration. No one even marginally associated with Junior and his mob are capable of just doing the job they're assigned without making it an exercise in money-grabbing, perk-porking excess. This administration is corrupted by greed and ideological loyalty, probably down to the cleaning ladies.