National Security Agency Travelers Misspent $285,000, Watchdog Finds

Government Executive: As part of transparency efforts at one of the government’s most secretive organizations, the National Security Agency’s inspector general on Monday released an unclassified version of an audit of employee travel expenses that found a concerning number to be improper.

The agency “did not adequately monitor cardholder activities, which may have permitted improper cash advances and other misuse of individually billed travel cards,” wrote the auditors led by IG Robert Storch, after a review of transactions over a nine-month period from January through September 2017.

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