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FILE - This August 2014 file photo provided by Eugene R. Fidell shows Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl preparing to be interviewed by Army investigators. The attorney for Bergdahl, who was held as a prisoner of war in Afghanistan for five years before his release, says the soldier wants to go to college once the investigation of how he was captured by the Taliban is finished. (AP Photo/Eugene R. Fidell, File) MANDATORY CREDIT

National Security

GAO: Pentagon violated law with Bergdahl swap

August 21, 2014 11:43 pm

President Obama announced May 31 that Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who walked away from his base and was captured in 2009, had been traded for the five Taliban leaders and was coming home. (AP Photo/U.S. Army, File)

Beltway Confidential

GAO: Obama administration broke the law in Bowe Bergdahl prisoner swap

Charles Hoskinson -

August 21, 2014 9:34 pm

The report could have implications for the EPA proposal to reduce carbon emissions from power plants, which won't be finalized until June 2015. (iStock)

Energy and Environment

EPA must explain the costs of its rules better, federal watchdog says

Zack Colman -

August 11, 2014 9:15 pm

Many U.S. workers avoid dealing with the IRS whenever possible -- even when it comes to changing tax-withholding forms that could make their paychecks bigger. That may mean a refund windfall in the 2019 tax-filing season.

Politics

Why a program for the poor may be helping big banks instead

Susan Ferrechio -

August 11, 2014 7:29 pm

According to usdebtclock.org, which continually tracks such things, the total federal unfunded liability as this edition of the Morning Examiner is written is more than $118 trillion. That's more than $1 million for every taxpayer. (iStock Photo)

Beltway Confidential

If the government doesn’t know how much it spends or how much it owes, how can it know anything?

Mark Tapscott -

August 7, 2014 1:07 pm

What happened to $619 billion? Don’t ask the federal government

Kelly Cohen -

August 7, 2014 9:00 am

Pedestrians walk past a Citibank branch on Park Avenue in New York, in this Nov. 21, 2008 file photo. (AP Photo/Jin Lee, file)

Economy

Here’s what the much-anticipated GAO report on whether banks are ‘too big to fail’ found

Joseph Lawler -

July 31, 2014 6:20 pm

In this Oct. 18, 2006 file photo, the charging bull statue is seen in lower Manhattan in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Beltway Confidential

Maybe Dodd-Frank is working: Big Bank Bailout no longer seen as inevitable

Timothy P. Carney -

July 31, 2014 5:35 pm

In the current battle over the Export-Import Bank, Democratic politicians and liberal journalists have dropped their populist pretenses and openly embraced the corporate-federal collusion that Ex-Im embodies. (Getty Images file)

Columnists

Export-Import Bank justifies subsidies with useless job numbers

Timothy P. Carney -

July 29, 2014 9:00 pm

Business

Agents get subsidized ‘Obamacare’ using fake IDs

Washington Examiner -

July 23, 2014 3:40 pm

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GAO: Pentagon violated law with Bergdahl swap

GAO: Obama administration broke the law in Bowe Bergdahl prisoner swap

EPA must explain the costs of its rules better, federal watchdog says

Why a program for the poor may be helping big banks instead

If the government doesn’t know how much it spends or how much it owes, how can it know anything?

What happened to $619 billion? Don’t ask the federal government

Here’s what the much-anticipated GAO report on whether banks are ‘too big to fail’ found

Maybe Dodd-Frank is working: Big Bank Bailout no longer seen as inevitable

Export-Import Bank justifies subsidies with useless job numbers

Agents get subsidized ‘Obamacare’ using fake IDs

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