With renewed vigor and the 2024 election behind him, President-elect Donald Trump is set to take on the Deep State, and one of his proposals is strongly resonating with service members and veterans alike.
In a video shared on X on Nov. 8, Trump can be seen offering a 10-step “plan to dismantle the Deep State.” At the 1:46 mark, making his sixth point, he states: “We will make every inspector general’s office independent and physically separated from the departments they oversee, so they do not become the protectors of the Deep State.”
For many former and current members of the U.S. military, Trump’s point powerfully resonates and is a welcome departure from the past. Lt. Col. Ryan Sweazey (USAF-Ret.), a former F-16 fighter pilot and founder of a Walk the Talk Foundation (WTTF), spoke to WorldNetDaily about Trump’s new proposal. Having once served as inspector general in the Air Force and thus possessing a clear, first-hand understanding of exactly how government can fail in oversight, Sweazey has been advocating for an independent Office of the Inspector General outside of the Department of Defense for quite some time.
In November 2023, he launched a petition, calling upon others to support revamping the current Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG) system that “consistently fails in its role to protect military members from reprisal and fails to impartially investigate complaint allegations which are brought forward at high risk by members of the DOD.” To date, over 2,800 have signed the petition.
In June 2024, Sweazey’s Walk the Talk Foundation offered a proposal to various members of Congress to form an independent Inspector General entity outside Defense Department influence. Pointing out the failures of the current DODIG system and those involved in it, the report was “referred to as the Lapdog Report,” a reference to the widespread view that the current inspector general system plays the role of lapdog to the military institution it’s supposedly investigating. […]
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