Tag: Watchdog

A worker walks past electrical transformers at the U.S.-built 105MW Tarakhil Power Plant on September 8, 2011 in Tarakhil, Afghanistan, on the outskirts of Kabul. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Failed Afghan project highlights Clinton’s contractor ties

Sarah Bedford · June 26, 2015 4:01 am

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill January 23, 2013 in Washington, D.C. Lawmakers questioned Clinton about the security failures during the September 11 attacks against the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, that led to the death of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

State Dept. admits Clinton failed to disclose Benghazi emails

Sarah Bedford · June 26, 2015 1:20 am

Eight months after Congress requested emails from embattled IRS official Lois Lerner, tax agency employees "magnetically erased" hundreds of backup tapes. (AP Photo)

IRS permanently destroyed up to 24,000 Lerner emails after subpoena

Sarah Bedford, Barbara Boland · June 25, 2015 8:33 pm

Sidney Blumenthal, a confidant to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 16, 2015, to face questions from the Republican-led House panel investigating the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

10 times Blumenthal got it wrong in Libya

Sarah Bedford · June 25, 2015 4:01 am

Current federal tax forms are distributed at the offices of the IRS, Nov. 1, 2005, in Chicago. (Photo Illustration by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

IRS paid $18 million to tax-delinquent firms

Sarah Bedford · June 24, 2015 11:16 pm

Led by Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., the minority members invoked a procedure that would compel the committee to hold a public meeting to debate the release of the Blumenthal transcript. (AP Photo)Â

Benghazi Dems demand vote to release Blumenthal transcript

Sarah Bedford · June 24, 2015 4:26 pm

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 16: House Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) arrives for a closed door meeting in the House Visitors Center at the U.S. Capitol June 16, 2015 in Washington, DC. The committee is expected to question Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime advisor to former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, about communication he had with Hillary Clinton around the time of the Sept. 11, 2011 attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Six things we learned from the Blumenthal emails

Sarah Bedford · June 24, 2015 5:42 am

The GAO found Interior lacked the ability through two systems it manages to track the $100 million in bonds companies are required to provide as collateral to reclaim land disturbed by installing wind turbines and solar panels. (AP Photo)Â

Energy and Environment

Watchdog: Feds keep shoddy records for solar, wind projects

Zack Colman · June 23, 2015 10:51 pm

"State should immediately produce to the committee emails that should have been produced months ago or explain why it is not in possession of these emails from Secretary [Hillary] Clinton," saidÂ Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Gowdy blasts State Dept. over failure to explain Blumenthal emails

Sarah Bedford · June 23, 2015 8:36 pm

Blumenthal emails show Clinton encouraged ‘unsolicited’ intelligence

Sarah Bedford · June 22, 2015 10:56 pm

John Kirby noted several of the emails released by the select committee Monday appeared to overlap with records the agency published last month. (AP Photo)Â

State Department says Clinton may not have provided new Blumenthal emails

Sarah Bedford · June 22, 2015 8:03 pm

Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during the 2015 United States Conference of Mayors on June 20, 2015 in San Francisco. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Gowdy releases new batch of unseen Clinton emails

Sarah Bedford · June 22, 2015 4:40 pm