Tag: Watchdog

Census costs increased between 2000 and 2010 by 60 percent, from $8.1 billion to $13 billion after adjusting for inflation, according to the Government Accountability Office. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Census Bureau hopes Internet slashes billions of dollars from 2020 count

Ethan Barton · April 3, 2015 9:00 am

The Coast Guard employs nearly 9,000 civilian workers in addition to about 42,000 active uniformed members. (AP Photo)Â

Coast Guard’s IT passwords compromised by too-chatty workers on telephones

alicia-hesse · April 2, 2015 6:36 pm

Afghan women chant slogans during a protest demanding justice for a woman who was beaten to death by a mob after being falsely accused of burning a Quran last week, in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, March 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Feds botched Afghan womens’ programs, launch new one for $416 million

Sarah Bedford · April 2, 2015 4:59 pm

The studyÃ¢â¬â¢s authors pointed to concerns over the costs of printing pictures and the potential for food stamp recipients to be Ã¢â¬Åstigmatized." (AP Photo)

Liberal think tank’s study claims photo ID won’t stop food stamp fraud

Sarah Bedford · April 2, 2015 9:00 am

Deborah Amdur was involved in a VA effort to conceal recalled drugs were prescribed to a Vermont veterans. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring)

VA hospital director misled senator about giving recalled drug to veteran

Luke Rosiak · April 2, 2015 9:00 am

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Energy and Environment

Lawsuit to force State Department to hand over climate change texts, emails

Ethan Barton · April 1, 2015 7:28 pm

Jeff Neely pled guilty in a San Francisco federal court late Tuesday to submitting a false claim for reimbursement that his room charge was for official business. (AP Photo)

Champagne-sipping ex-GSA official pleads guilty to false reimbursement claim

Mark Tapscott · April 1, 2015 4:58 pm

A judge said the National Federation of Federal Employees Local 2189 violated federal rules and its own constitution to deny membership to Jonathan Jarman. (Screenshot)

Union can’t refuse membership to former rival labor leader

Luke Rosiak · April 1, 2015 2:29 pm

EEOC worker pilfered $60k in taxpayer funds for Louis Vuitton, Disneyland

Luke Rosiak · April 1, 2015 9:00 am

"It is difficult to know how auditors from the IG's office could have so completely missed the signs of waste, fraud and abuse that have now been widely identified in this program," Johnson said. (Getty File Photo)

Democratic lawmaker calls for Obama to fire Commerce Department watchdog

Sarah Bedford · April 1, 2015 9:00 am

Clinton said during a March 10 news conference at the U.N. that she used a server located in her private residence in Chappaqua, N.Y.,Â for her "convenience." (AP Photo)

Feds should have told national archivist of Clinton’s private email abuse

Mark Tapscott · March 31, 2015 9:04 pm

David Kendall, Clinton's lawyer, told Trey Gowdy Friday that the emails are no longer accessible by the server's cleaning. (AP Photo)Â

Those ‘lost emails’ aren’t always so lost

Sarah Bedford · March 31, 2015 7:44 pm