Tag: Watchdog

The Pentagon building is seen in this undated aerial photo. (Photo by U.S. Air Force/Getty images)

DOD can’t track its vast real estate holdings

Mark Tapscott · September 20, 2014 6:00 pm

Here in Guatemala's western highlands, the local government glorifies theÂ citizens who have fled to the United StatesÂ with a towering 40-foot statue called "Homage to the Migrants." (Richard Pollock/Washington Examiner)

Guatemala’s ‘Homage to the Migrant’ statue glorifies illegal immigrants

Richard Pollock · September 20, 2014 3:00 pm

Department of Homeland Security officials can't say if their program to keep foreign terrorists and criminals from getting U.S. visas is working, according to a government watchdog. (iStock Photo)

UPDATED: IG says visa security can’t be verified

Mark Tapscott · September 19, 2014 7:17 pm

Three Florida women will serve lengthy prison terms and make more than $2.4 million in restitution for their participation in a $20 million scheme to defraud Medicare. (iStock Photo)

Three Florida women get slammer for Medicare fraud

Mark Tapscott · September 19, 2014 6:00 pm

A Department of Veterans Affairs employee who remodeled her home using taxpayer dollars was sentenced to four years of probation after pleading guilty to one count of theft in federal court. (AP/Charles Dharapak)

Impatient American Legion wants crooked Veterans Affairs managers fired

Mark Flatten · September 19, 2014 4:29 pm

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Feds spend $167 million, audit $150K

Sarah Bedford · September 19, 2014 9:00 am

A recent New York Post story said that Census employees were fabricating unemployment data to mislead the public for political purposes. (iStock)

House GOP: Commerce ‘ambushed’ whistleblower interview

Luke Rosiak · September 18, 2014 2:29 pm

In August 2011, investigators got a memo recommending canceling the towers, but the they were built anyway. (iStock)

National Security

State Department spent millions on six towers nobody wants in Afghanistan

Mark Tapscott · September 18, 2014 11:00 am

A new round of illegal immigration to the United States could be sparked by the recent upsurge in political violence in rural Guatemala. (iStock)

Guatemalan violence may spark new wave of illegal immigration to the U.S.

Richard Pollock · September 18, 2014 9:00 am

Assistant Inspector General for Healthcare Inspections John Daigh, from left, Department of Veterans Affairs Acting Inspector General Richard Griffin; retired Medical Director Samuel Foote, of the Diamond Community-Based Outpatient Center, Phoenix VA Health Care System, Veterans Health Administration; and Medical Director Katherine Mitchell of the Iraq and Afghanistan Post-Deployment Center, Phoenix VA Health Care System, Veterans Health Administration, testify during a House Committee on Veterans' Affairs hearing on "Scheduling Manipulation and Veteran Deaths in Phoenix: Examination of the OIG's Final Report" on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Delays contributed to patient deaths at veterans’ hospital, IG concedes

Mark Flatten · September 17, 2014 11:08 pm

Assistant Inspector General for Healthcare Inspections John Daigh, Jr., left, and Veterans Affairs Acting Inspector General Richard Griffin testify during a House Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Veterans Affairs IG couldn’t see records that didn’t exist for dead vets

Mark Flatten · September 17, 2014 7:58 pm

Married couple convicted of health care fraud

Washington Examiner · September 17, 2014 3:07 pm