Watchdogs

'Watchdogs'

Glenn Fine's new book offers an insider’s view of government at the highest levels

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Upcoming event

Glenn Fine joins Craig Whitlock, an investigative reporter at the Washington Post and author of The Afghanistan Papers, for a conversation on government accountability moderated by Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, Miller Center practitioner senior fellow and director of the Katzmann Initiative on Improving Interbranch Relations and Government at the Brookings Institution.

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About the author

GLENN FINE is a nonresident fellow in the governance studies program at the Brookings Institution and an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law School. Fine served as the inspector general for the U.S. Department of Justice from 2000 to 2011 during the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations. He also served as the acting inspector general of the U.S. Department of Defense from 2016 to 2020. He has testified more than 50 times before Congressional committees and has written extensively on the role of inspectors general, federal investigations, and management in government agencies. He majored in economics at Harvard University and earned a JD from Harvard Law School.