Tag: Watchdog

CFPB headquarters in DC (Photo: Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Two new whistleblowers surface, are subpoenaed in CFPB controversy on employee discrimination

Richard Pollock · June 12, 2014 5:55 pm

National Security

Two nuclear bombs nearly detonated in North Carolina in 1961, declassified report shows

Washington Examiner · June 12, 2014 3:01 pm

A union member listens during a UNITE HERE unionized hotel workers campaign on February 16, 2006 in Los Angeles. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

Obama’s first union endorsement pays off for an Obamacare co-op

Richard Pollock · June 12, 2014 10:00 am

The Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital is in Hines, Ill. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

The House and Senate disagree on how to reform the VA: Here’s how

Mark Flatten · June 12, 2014 10:00 am

Former Blackwater Worldwide guard Nicholas Slatten enters a taxi cab as he leaves federal court in Washington, Wednesday, June 11, 2014, after the start of his first-degree murder trial. Slatten and three other Blackwater Worldwide guards are on trial for the killing of 14 Iraqi civilians and the wounding of 18 others in bloodshed that inflamed anti-American sentiment around the globe. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

National Security

Blackwater guards face trial in Iraq shootings

Pete Yost · June 11, 2014 10:40 pm

The seal affixed to the front of the Department of Veterans Affairs building in Washington, Friday, June 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Veterans Affairs issued ‘gag order’ and engaged in criminal cover-ups, lawmakers say

Mark Flatten · June 11, 2014 10:20 pm

US opens investigation of air bag ruptures

Tom Krisher · June 11, 2014 9:52 pm

Assemblyman faces staff cut over ethics findings

Michael Virtanen · June 11, 2014 8:33 pm

Toyota expands recall for air bag glitch

Washington Examiner · June 11, 2014 9:23 am

Illinois state Rep. Derrick Smith, center, listens to his attorney Victor Henderson, right, at the federal building Tuesday, June 10, 2014, in Chicago after a jury convicted him of bribery for taking $7,000 from a purported day care operator seeking a state grant. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Illinois Rep. Derrick Smith convicted of bribery

Michael Tarm · June 10, 2014 10:13 pm

Report: Social Security judges rubber-stamp claims

Stephen Ohlemacher · June 10, 2014 9:52 pm

FILE - In this 2005 file photo, a workman slides a dustmop over the floor at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Va., near Washington. Fifteen CIA employees were found to have committed sexual, racial or other types of harassment last year, including a supervisor who was removed from the job after engaging in "bullying, hostile behavior," and an operative who was sent home from an overseas post for inappropriately touching female colleagues, according to an internal CIA document obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

CIA disciplines 15 officers in harassment cases

Ken Dilanian · June 10, 2014 9:45 pm