Mark Tapscott

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The GAO can't tell how much the government spent selling Obamacare to a key segment of the market last year. (iStock)

Feds lack the data to determine how well key Obamacare provisions are working

Mark Tapscott · September 23, 2014 9:00 am

Journalists, whistleblowers and taxpayers are seeing anything but openness. (iStock)

Journos, whistleblowers decry Obama’s tightening noose on news, information

Mark Tapscott · September 21, 2014 12:21 pm

The Pentagon building is seen in this undated aerial photo. (Photo by U.S. Air Force/Getty images)

DOD can’t track its vast real estate holdings

Mark Tapscott · September 20, 2014 6:00 pm

Department of Homeland Security officials can't say if their program to keep foreign terrorists and criminals from getting U.S. visas is working, according to a government watchdog. (iStock Photo)

UPDATED: IG says visa security can’t be verified

Mark Tapscott · September 19, 2014 7:17 pm

Three Florida women will serve lengthy prison terms and make more than $2.4 million in restitution for their participation in a $20 million scheme to defraud Medicare. (iStock Photo)

Three Florida women get slammer for Medicare fraud

Mark Tapscott · September 19, 2014 6:00 pm

In August 2011, investigators got a memo recommending canceling the towers, but the they were built anyway. (iStock)

National Security

State Department spent millions on six towers nobody wants in Afghanistan

Mark Tapscott · September 18, 2014 11:00 am

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Energy and Environment

Group tells IRS Sierra Club evading taxes, colludes with commercial firms

Mark Tapscott · September 17, 2014 1:00 pm

One reason healthcare costs continue to spiral upward despite Obamacare may have something to do with the federal government's left hand not knowing how much its right hand is paying for certain drugs. (iStock Photo)

Medicare’s right hand doesn’t know what its left hand pays for cancer drugs

Mark Tapscott · September 17, 2014 9:00 am

A Michigan public housing commission is shot through with conflicts of interests, including two top officials with family members benefiting from the federal program, according to a government watchdog. (iStock)

Officials’ kin on public housing dole

Mark Tapscott · September 17, 2014 9:00 am

"The community service and self-sufficiency requirement is intended to assist adult public housing residents in improving their own economic and social well-being and to give these residents a greater stake in their communities," said the Department of Housing and Urban Development's inspector general. (iStock)

No work for public housing residents

Mark Tapscott · September 16, 2014 3:57 pm

"There is a 'revolving door' between the EPA and the various environmental pressure groups," the report said. (iStock)

Energy and Environment

EPA rife with green conflicts of interest

Mark Tapscott · September 16, 2014 9:00 am

"The bottom line is that it appears we've created a government that the Afghans simply cannot afford," saidÃÂ John F. Sopko, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Corruption still huge in Afghanistan: SIGAR

Mark Tapscott · September 14, 2014 6:00 pm