Tag: Watchdog

In New Hampshire, every one of the more than 40,000 people who signed up for Obamacare chose Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield for coverage. (Getty/David McNew)

Small insurers devastated by big corporations in Obamacare state exchanges

Richard Pollock · October 2, 2014 9:00 am

A U.S. Postal Service program designed to make it easier for people to forward mail to their new homes has jeopardized the privacy of millions of addresses, according to a government watchdog. (iStock Photo)

Inadequate USPS security compromises 13 million changes-of-address, IG finds

Sarah Bedford · October 1, 2014 6:42 pm

Report reveals illicit romance, leaks and insider info in Veterans Affairs contract

Mark Flatten · October 1, 2014 9:00 am

Vehicles at a site near Kandahar in March. The facility is responsible for shipping military equipment back to the U.S. after it has been damaged or is no longer need in Afghanistan. (Getty images)

GAO: Pentagon wasting millions to ship unneeded vehicles back from Afghanistan

Charles Hoskinson · September 30, 2014 9:37 pm

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Amy Berman Jackson granted Cause of Action's motion for a summary judgement, thus requiring TIGTA to provide documents the group requested in 2012 concerning correspondence between the IRS and the White House. (iStock)

Court says TIGTA must process FOIA on White House access to tax records

Mark Tapscott · September 30, 2014 8:47 pm

Veterans with disability claims pending in the Department of Veterans Affairs' Houston office were left without a decision or explanation after a worker inappropriately dumped their cases, according to the agency's inspector general. (AP Photo)

Houston VA staffer tossed benefits cases

Mark Flatten · September 30, 2014 7:42 pm

Activist ‘payday lending’ video ad misleads consumers, according to advertising ethicists

Richard Pollock · September 30, 2014 7:25 pm

U.S. deterrence policy has generated plenty of criticism from Capitol Hill. But that has been aimed at the administration's supposedly narrow view of what constitutes an attack and unwillingness to spell out likely responses.

Energy and Environment

IG says EPA ignoring sewage chemicals

Sarah Bedford · September 30, 2014 6:00 pm

"Federal agencies received credit towards their small business goals for contract actions awarded to ineligible 8(a) and HUBZone firms," the inspector general of the Small Business Administration found, referring to the programs for race, gender, veterans and impoverished-area set-aside programs.

One-third of ‘disadvantaged’ contracting dollars going to firms that are no longer disadvantaged

Luke Rosiak · September 30, 2014 9:00 am

Consultant Stewart Liff filed suit in July against the government for more than $10 million, revealing that the government paid him $33,000 a month, the Examiner found. (iStock)

$33k-per-month federal anti-waste consultant sues government for $10m

Luke Rosiak · September 30, 2014 9:00 am

Wild Earth Guardians and the Center for Biological Diversity entered into an agreement in 2011 with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to settle ESA litigation on 1,008 species the groups claimed were threatened with extinction. The agreement provided that the two groups would initiate fewer such actions. (iStock)

Energy and Environment

Energy group claims enviros suing more often, not less, despite 2011 deal

Mark Tapscott · September 30, 2014 9:00 am

The IRS handled more than 482,000 delinquent tax cases in 2012, the most recent year for which data was available. (iStock)

IRS may give up too soon on half or more of delinquent tax cases, IG says

Richard Pollock · September 29, 2014 8:24 pm