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Repetitive technology investments by federal agencies wasted about $321 million over five years, a new Government Accountability Office audit shows. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Government Accountability Office finds repetitive IT investments across agencies wastes more than $300 million

Kelly Cohen · September 13, 2013 4:00 am

In this Image taken from video and released by SITE Intelligence Group on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010, Anwar al-Awlaki speaks in a video message posted on radical websites. Judicial Watch, a nonprofit watchdog group, has obtained documents showing the Federal Bureau of Intelligence was trailing the U.S.-born al Qaeda leader and identified terrorist as he walked up to the front door of the Pentagon before a luncheon with U.S. officials in 2002.(AP Photo/SITE Intelligence Group)

FBI let al-Awlaki walk right up to Pentagon

Kelly Cohen · September 13, 2013 4:00 am

Homeland Security can’t spend tax dollars wisely, IG reports

National Security

Homeland Security can’t spend tax dollars wisely, IG reports

Kelly Cohen · September 11, 2013 4:00 am

Audubon Zoo spokesperson Sarah Burnett walks through a hurricane-damaged portion of the zoo in New Orleans, La., Oct. 14, 2005. The zoo suffered damage from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, but the only animals lost were two otters and a racoon. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

New Orleans in the habit of wasting FEMA funds from Hurricane Katrina

Kelly Cohen · September 8, 2013 4:00 am

USPS officials responsible for preventing misuse of agency travel cards are missing thousands of dollars employees get with the cards for their personal use. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

Postal Service employees make off with agency cash, IG decries

Kelly Cohen · September 5, 2013 4:00 am

The program provided this money via "bonus payments," or funds given to help states pay for an increase of children enrolled in Medicaid programs. (Photo: Thiknstock)

Alabama politely declines feds’ demand for $88 million back, IG reports

Kelly Cohen · August 29, 2013 4:00 am

A government ethics and accountability group wants to know what the Department of Justice is hiding. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

National Security

CREW sues to make Justice Department unit’s opinions public

Kelly Cohen · August 29, 2013 4:00 am

Darryl Layne Woods, the former chairman and chief financial officer of Mainstreet Bank in Ashland, Mo., used $381,487 in Troubled Asset Relief Program funds to buy himself a luxury vacation condo in Southwest Florida. (Thinkstock)

Bank official stole government money? Not surprised

Kelly Cohen · August 27, 2013 4:00 am

Dancing With The Stars (courtesy photo)

Why work when you can watch TV at a New York steam plant?

Kelly Cohen · August 27, 2013 4:00 am

The U.S. Postal Service hasn't given a complete review and update to its "Employee and Labor Relations Manual" since it was published in 1978. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

Post Office hasn’t given labor manual a complete update in 35 years

Kelly Cohen · August 23, 2013 4:00 am

Fannie Mae hasn't adopted accounting practices to show losses despite being told do so last year by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, according to the agency's inspector general. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Fannie, Freddie improperly accounting for losses, IG says

Kelly Cohen · August 23, 2013 4:00 am

"Three of the nation's civilian nuclear research facilities and its 104 commercial reactors remain ill-prepared to guard against large-scale terrorism threats," a Pentagon-funded study reports. (Thinkstock)

Energy and Environment

Just how safe are the nation’s nuclear reactors?

Kelly Cohen · August 22, 2013 4:00 am