Tag: Inspectors General

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

Kelly Cohen · July 18, 2014 6:30 pm

FILE - This April 1, 2014 file photo show the headquarters for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Washington. The inspector general for the nation's top international-aid agency is probing a once-secret Obama administration program that created a social media network in Cuba, The Associated Press has learned. The review centers on the U.S. Agency for International Development's Twitter-like service in Cuba, which was meant to circumvent Internet restrictions on the island. USAID has been criticized for using the program to conduct overt political messaging and for not fully informing Congress the scope of its work there. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

National Security

Inspector general probing US ‘Cuban Twitter’ plan

JACK GILLUMDESMOND BUTLER · July 17, 2014 7:34 pm

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

Kelly Cohen · July 16, 2014 8:59 pm

CFPB headquarters in DC (Photo: Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Beltway Confidential

UPDATED: How could Bloomberg Businessweek reporter miss the Obama bundler in the CFPB renovation scandal?

Mark Tapscott · July 16, 2014 12:36 pm

VA paid out about $2.7 million in merit bonuses to SES executives in 2013. Bonuses for 2014 have been suspended.ÃÂ (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Fast tracking claims helped Veterans Affairs backlog stats but hurt disabled vets, inspector general finds

Mark Flatten · July 14, 2014 9:42 pm

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

Kelly Cohen · July 13, 2014 5:07 pm

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Chicago taxpayers paying for millions in ‘free’ trash pickup

Kelly Cohen · July 13, 2014 4:40 pm

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Why pro-democracy broadcasters targeting Cuba feel demoralized

Kelly Cohen · July 10, 2014 10:00 am

The offices of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau at 1700 G Street NW, Washington, D.C., July 11th, 2013. (Examiner/Graeme Jennings)

CFPB’s renovation costs skyrocket to $216 million; IG sees ‘no sound basis’ for it

Richard Pollock · July 2, 2014 10:00 am

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Five problems a government inspection found with Obamacare subsidies

Susan Ferrechio · July 2, 2014 9:00 am

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Energy and Environment

Government is why drilling permit approvals are slower than molasses, IG says

Kelly Cohen · July 1, 2014 7:51 pm

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Top OPM officials routinely use set-aside contracting to circumvent rules, IG says

Luke Rosiak · June 25, 2014 5:06 pm