EXCLUSIVE: US consumer watchdog examiners adopt lighter touch amid pressure and threats, sources say ↧ ↧ EXCLUSIVE: US consumer watchdog examiners adopt lighter touch amid ... Examiners at the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau gave a largely clean bill of health to most of the companies they inspected earlier this year, a light-touch approach that marked a departure ​from the past for the watchdog, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.