The organization replaced an earlier monitoring body, the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq, which was disbanded after Iraq thwarted the work of inspectors and the Clinton administration responded in 1998 by ordering air strikes.
Mr. Bonner oversees the work of inspectors who, before the creation of the Department of Homeland Security earlier this year, had worked for the Customs Service, the Immgration and Naturalization Service, and the Border Patrol.
Its Food Safety and Inspection Service said in a statement this week that it had received "disturbing evidence of inhumane treatment of cattle" at the meat company and suspended the work of inspectors there on Aug. 19, effectively forcing the plant to halt its slaughtering operations.
President Vladimir V. Putin said today that Russia was prepared to support new United Nations Security Council resolutions on Iraq, but only to strengthen the work of inspectors searching for its weapons programs and not to authorize the use of military force.
This application promises to improve the on-site work of inspectors by decreasing the time required to perform inspections while ensuring, at the same time, a higher level of accuracy.
WASHINGTON -- Members of Congress and the Obama administration rely heavily on the work of inspectors general to root out waste, fraud and abuse in the federal bureaucracy.
