The Secrecy Administration

That's what the Obama Administration may be known as in the future. It seems committed to negating the power of the Inspectors General, which was the result of Watergate. The 1978 law which established IGs in most government agencies has served America well. But Obama thinks that many of the IG investigations have resulted in the release of secret information. 

Currently there are twenty investigations that are stymied because if Obama's policy. "The bottom line is that we’re no longer independent,” Michael E. Horowitz, the Justice Department inspector general, said in an interview.