WASHINGTON, March 3 – Last week, U.S. Department of Agriculture officials ordered auditors from the Government Accountability Office out of their offices, and ordered USDA employees not to speak with them. GAO was investigating allegations that USDA deliberately gave false information to auditors looking into the Department’s alleged mishandling of civil rights complaints.
Environmental Working Group and the National Black Farmers Association, which have been working to win justice for black farmers who were discriminated against for farm loans, issued the following statement:
