WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The head of the U.S. General Services Administration is trying to limit the power of its inspector general, the Washington Post reported Saturday.
Lurita Alexis Doan, who became GSA administrator in late May, wants to trim the budget for audits by $5 million, and has compared Inspector General Brian Miller to a terrorist, the newspaper said.
"There are two kinds of terrorism in the (United States): the external kind; and, internally, the IGs have terrorized the Regional Administrators," Doan said in notes obtained by the Post.
Before President George W. Bush named Doan to head the GSA, she headed a technology company that she founded in 1990. Miller, before his current post, was a federal prosecutor involved in the case of terror suspect Zacarias Moussaoui.
GSA spokesman Charles Bethel said Doan is simply trying to balance the GSA budget and get all parts of the agency to live within their means.
The GSA supervises contracting for much of the federal government.
