The Judiciary Act of 1789 authorizes the Attorney General to advise the President and executive agencies on questions of law. The Attorney General has delegated that responsibility to the Office of Legal Counsel. It is unusual, but not unprecedented, for people outside the government to learn of an OLC opinion request before advice is provided and a decision is made whether to publish the resulting opinion, a process that can take a year or more. But thanks to an outspoken Inspector General (there are just enough exceptions to the stereotype to save that phrase from utter redundancy), the public has a ringside seat to a pending OLC opinion request by the Department of the Treasury involving the Secretary’s authority to supervise the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP), Neil Barofsky.