Tag: Watchdog

GMMB partner Jim Margolis, left, with President Obama's campaign manager Jim Messina in 2012. Margolis was a key advisor during Obama's last two camaigns. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Obama’s chief ad agency lands $5.7 million CFPB contract that has produced no ads to date

Richard Pollock · September 9, 2014 9:00 am

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)

IG let Veterans Affairs officials alter report to absolve agency in Phoenix deaths

Mark Flatten · September 8, 2014 9:31 pm

Ex-US diplomat Khalilzad contests financial probe

Deb Riechmann · September 8, 2014 8:46 pm

DHS not prepared to handle killer pandemic, IG says

Mark Tapscott · September 8, 2014 5:53 pm

When the Egyptian military toppled the government of Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi, there was no ambassador in Cairo. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Obama lacks eyes and ears in hot spots around the world

Richard Pollock · September 8, 2014 9:00 am

18F, a group working under the General Services Administration, "is working to create a clean, user-friendly online FOIA hub to submit requests to the federal government," said C.J. Ciaramella, editor of FOIA Rundown. (18F/General Services Administration)

New GSA office hopes to redefine FOIA users’ experience

Mark Tapscott · September 7, 2014 4:00 pm

Less than seven percent of UsaSpending.govÃ¢â¬â¢s information is accurate, and $600 billion is missing.

Transparency advocates worry that DATA Act is in hands of a reluctant OMB

Luke Rosiak · September 7, 2014 9:00 am

Mayor David Garcia shows downtown Waveland, Miss. after Hurricane Katrina devastated the town in 2005. (AP Photo/Courtesy of David Garcia)

Nine years later, Hurricane Katrina recovery funds still being audited

Mark Tapscott · September 6, 2014 6:00 pm

Since 2008, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has spent $527 million on lobbying, more than any other entity in the database. (Getty/Chip Somodevilla)

Nonprofit puts Federal Lobbying Database on the Internet for everybody

Mark Tapscott · September 6, 2014 9:00 am

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, on the IRS' response to the targeting of conservative organizations. (AP Photo)

Koskinen to explain why IRS didn’t search 760 servers that may have Lerner’s email

Mark Tapscott · September 5, 2014 5:36 pm

Alvaro Ramazzini, Guatemala's longest-serving Catholic bishop, thinks President Obama should resign because he has "compromised his integrity" on the issue of illegal immigrants. (AP File Photo/Moises Castillo)

Influential Guatemalan bishop calls for Obama resignation, return of Nobel Peace Prize over immigrant deportations

Richard Pollock · September 5, 2014 12:00 pm

Department of Justice officials appear to be going to unusual lengths to prevent a former IRS attorney from talking to Congress about his time working for Lois Lerner, the woman at the center of the IRS scandal. (iStock)

Justice Department blocking House panel from talking to former IRS attorney

Mark Tapscott · September 5, 2014 9:00 am