Tag: Inspectors General

Treasury Department officials change data they receive from financial institutions that received federal assistance under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, a special inspector general said. (iStock)

Treasury doctors banks’ TARP data

Mark Tapscott · September 2, 2014 11:04 pm

Memo: No wrongdoing in handling child immigrants

Alicia Caldwell · September 2, 2014 8:40 pm

Border Patrol vehicles patrol along a barrier that runs along the US-Mexico border on October 4, 2007 east of San Luis, Calif. (Photo by David McNew/Getty images)

National Security

DHS lacks plan, info to manage its $534 million vehicle fleet

Mark Tapscott · September 2, 2014 5:58 pm

The Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 requiresÃÂ the 72 federal IGs to appoint whistleblower ombudsmen and to disseminate information about the rights of whistleblowers in the federal workforce. (iStock image)

Some IGs slow to publicize whistleblower rights and protections

Mark Tapscott · August 29, 2014 4:15 pm

U.S. Postal Service officials spent more than $39 million leasing trailers last year. (Getty images)

USPS leases 10k trailers but can’t track them or confirm their receipt

Mark Tapscott · August 28, 2014 1:30 pm

"While the case reviews in this report document poor quality of care, we are unable to conclusively assert that the absence of timely quality care caused the deaths of these veterans," Veterans Affairs Acting Inspector General Richard Griffin said in a report on the manipulation of patient waiting lists in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Veterans Affairs IG finds no direct links between patient deaths and scheduling scams at Phoenix hospital

Mark Flatten · August 26, 2014 10:19 pm

The EPA's Office of Environmental Information spent $2.2 million for cloud computing services in 2011 in an attempt to reduce the agency's computing costs and speed up processing. (iStock)

Big contractors fail to deliver promised services, but EPA paid them anyway

Kelly Cohen · August 26, 2014 10:02 pm

A scandal erupts. Congressional hearings are held. Documents are requested and withheld. Subpoenas are issued. Contempt charges threatened. A few documents dribble out. Then come the admissions that, oh by the way, emails required by multiple federal laws to be preserved have either been destroyed or "lost." (iSTock Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Is it time to view the Obama administration as a criminal enterprise?

Mark Tapscott · August 8, 2014 12:32 pm

Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department's inspector general, arrives to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee after faulting the department for disregard of public safety in Operation Fast and Furious in this Sept. 20, 2012, file photo. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Inspectors general say Obama aides obstruct investigations: Examiner Editorial

Washington Examiner · August 7, 2014 9:00 pm

With too little work and too much free time, paralegal employees at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office were paid more than $5 million while doing nothing for four years.ÃÂ (iStock Image)

Here’s who the patent office paid millions to do little or no work; officials feared union fury

Kelly Cohen · July 29, 2014 8:09 pm

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CFPB’s cloud computing security system ‘needs strengthening,’ warns IG

Richard Pollock · July 23, 2014 10:00 am

The Gereshk Cold and Dry Storage Facility in Afghanistan's Helmand province. (Photo: SIGAR)

U.S. spent another $3m on an unused building in this country

Kelly Cohen · July 22, 2014 9:19 pm