Tag: Inspectors General

"Three of the nation's civilian nuclear research facilities and its 104 commercial reactors remain ill-prepared to guard against large-scale terrorism threats," a Pentagon-funded study reports. (Thinkstock)

Energy and Environment

Just how safe are the nation’s nuclear reactors?

Kelly Cohen · August 22, 2013 4:00 am

VA progress on claims backlog is a statistical illusion, vets groups say

Mark Flatten · August 20, 2013 4:00 am

A 2010 Chevrolet CG3300 passenger van (Courtesy photo)

DoD has cars, but doesn’t care to drive them

Kelly Cohen · August 20, 2013 4:00 am

The U.S. Postal Service's "Enterprise Data Warehouse" stores data from about 100 of its different computer systems, but an inspector general report says that processing the date is tedious and inefficient. (Thinkstock)

USPS stores data the expensive way, IG finds

Kelly Cohen · August 13, 2013 4:00 am

Thinkstock

HHS IG fears Obamacare co-ops will run out of money before enrolling first customers

Michal Conger · August 8, 2013 4:00 am

The U.S. Postal Service's Enterprise Technology Services Program awards four information technology service contracts â otherwise known as task orders â as a means of encouraging competition and innovation among its suppliers. (Getty Images File)

IG decries lax oversight of Postal Service tech contracts

Kelly Cohen · August 6, 2013 4:00 am

The top watchdog in charge of U.S. reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan warned that the U.S. will waste billions of dollars without better contractor oversight. (AP File)

Billions at risk in Afghanistan without better contractor oversight, watchdog warns

Michal Conger · August 1, 2013 4:00 am

In a letter sent Monday to J. Russell George, the Treasury Departmentâs Inspector General for Tax Administration, Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., right, and subcommittee chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said they have learned of âquestionable treatment,â of some right-leaning groups by the IRS. (Photo: Graeme Jennings/WashingtonExaminer, AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Darrell Issa and Jim Jordan want probe into IRS scrutiny of conservative tax-exempt groups

Susan Ferrechio · July 29, 2013 4:00 am

Alejandro Mayorkas is sworn in at his confirmation hearing as nominee for Secretary of Homeland Security on Capitol Hill on Thursday.

Beltway Confidential

DHS official under IG probe denies wrongdoing

Joel Gehrke · July 25, 2013 4:00 am

Washington Secrets

IG: Afghan contractor fraud killing American soldiers

Paul Bedard · July 23, 2013 4:00 am

President Obama has nominated Michael A. Carroll as inspector general for the U.S. Agency for International Development, an appointment that would fill a nearly two-year vacancy. (Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)

President Obama nominates USAID IG, but many watchdog vacancies remain unfilled

Michal Conger · July 18, 2013 4:00 am

Louisiana is expanding Medicaid health insurance coverage to more adolescents aging out of the state's foster care system. (Photo: Thinkstock)

IG employee diverted thousands of Medicaid records to personal email

Kelly Cohen · July 16, 2013 4:00 am