The Department of Homeland Security's inspector general said the agency has systematically obstructed its work. The inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security said the agency's leaders had "systematically obstructed" its work, including in a federal criminal investigation, according to a copy of a letter viewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Charlie Savage writes about national security and legal policy. He reported from Washington. The Pentagon's new inspector general has frozen a proposal to evaluate military targeting in the Trump administration's strikes on boats suspected of smuggling cocaine from South America, telling his staff he wanted to consult department leadership before deciding whether the review should go forward, The New York Times has learned.

Kelly Madigan, the now former Baltimore County inspector general, will start as Howard County's first inspector general on Monday.