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Fire consumes an arch-span building at Afghan National Army Brigade Camp Sayar in Afghanistan in 2012. The incident report on the fire said the building, which was 85 percent complete, burned in 30 minutes. (Photo: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers via SIGAR)

National Security

Another $1.5 billion that may go up in smoke in Afghanistan

July 18, 2014 6:30 pm

Underworked doctors, crooked contracting officers, criminals, perverts and cheats are all part of the broken culture that rewards failure and punishes honest employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs, according to a report released today from Sen. Tom Coburn.ÃÂ (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Healthcare

Yet another thing Veterans Affairs can’t do right

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July 17, 2014 4:20 pm

An Afghan Air Force C-130 sits on the flightline at Afghanistan's Kabul International Airport in April. (Photo: SIGAR)

National Security

The U.S. is about to give $100 million worth of cargo planes to a country that may not need them

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July 17, 2014 9:00 am

Veterans Affairs acting Inspector General Richard Griffin testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP/Cliff Owen)

More than 18,500 petitioners tell Veterans Affairs IG to drop demand for POGO records

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July 16, 2014 8:59 pm

Immigration

This state incorrectly gave $41 million in childcare benefits to ineligible families

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July 16, 2014 8:50 pm

Energy and Environment

This Energy Department blunder cost taxpayers at least $56 million

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July 13, 2014 6:17 pm

HUD program, meant to help, actually hurts, IG reports

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July 13, 2014 5:31 pm

Crime

Guess what this ‘federal employee of the year’ was doing with mail

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July 13, 2014 5:07 pm

Chicago taxpayers paying for millions in ‘free’ trash pickup

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July 13, 2014 4:40 pm

Students of the Muthesius Art Academy stand around a bed for Edward Snowden in front of a Snowden poster in Kiel, Germany, in June. The academy wants to offer Snowden asylum symbolically to mark the one-year anniversary of the NSA whistleblowing. (Photo: Ruben Neugebauer/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)

Immigration

Here’s what the company that vetted Edward Snowden for the NSA just got

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July 10, 2014 5:34 pm

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Kelly Cohen

Another $1.5 billion that may go up in smoke in Afghanistan

Yet another thing Veterans Affairs can’t do right

The U.S. is about to give $100 million worth of cargo planes to a country that may not need them

More than 18,500 petitioners tell Veterans Affairs IG to drop demand for POGO records

This state incorrectly gave $41 million in childcare benefits to ineligible families

This Energy Department blunder cost taxpayers at least $56 million

HUD program, meant to help, actually hurts, IG reports

Guess what this ‘federal employee of the year’ was doing with mail

Chicago taxpayers paying for millions in ‘free’ trash pickup

Here’s what the company that vetted Edward Snowden for the NSA just got

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