Tag: Watchdog

Cyber weaknesses continue to nag the Department of Energy -- as does the agency's failure to fix them, its inspector general has found. (Courtesy photo)

Energy and Environment

Energy Department makes no progress in fixing cybersecurity issues

Kelly Cohen · November 6, 2013 5:00 am

Michael Sestak, who served as the non-immigrant visa chief in the U.S. consulate in Ho Chi Minh City, plead guilty to bribery in relation to a scheme through which applicants paid $15,000 to $70,000 for visas to enter the U.S. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Former US visa chief in Vietnam pleads guilty to bribery

Associated Press · November 6, 2013 5:00 am

WashPost: D.C. education agency pays Chicago firm nearly $90,000 for one day of work

Washington Examiner · November 5, 2013 5:00 am

Emails obtained by Judicial Watch show that several of President Obama's top advisers had concerns about the law that authorized surveillance of phone and Internet activity.ÃÂ (Photo: Thinkstock).

National Security

Emails show some Obama aides had doubts on NSA phone, Internet spying

Michal Conger · November 5, 2013 5:00 am

Flaws in the Small Business Administration allow large businesses to get awards and contracts really meant for small businesses, the agency's inspector general found.

IG: Flaw in GSA’s awards program allows large businesses to get awards, contracts

Kelly Cohen · November 5, 2013 5:00 am

In this photo taken Dec. 3, 2010, U.S. navy officer Michael "Vannak Khem" Misiewicz becomes emotional as he embraces his aunt Samrith Sokha, 72, at Cambodian coastal international see port of Sihanoukville, Cambodia. Misiewicz passed confidential information on ship routes to Malaysian businessman Leonard Francis' Singapore-based company, Glenn Defense Marine Asia Ltd., or GDMA, according to the court documents. Misiewicz and Francis moved Navy vessels like chess pieces, diverting aircraft carriers, destroyers and other ships to Asian ports with lax oversight where Francis could inflate costs, according to the criminal complaint. The firm overcharged the Navy millions for fuel, food and other services it provided, and invented tariffs by using phony port authorities, the prosecution alleges. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)

National Security

Feds: Navy secrets bought with prostitutes

Washington Examiner · November 4, 2013 5:00 am

The U.S. is sending 600 troops to Eastern Europe to take part in military exercises to "reassure allies and partners" amid growing tensions with Russia over Ukraine's sovereignty. (Thinkstock)

National Security

Inspector general: Pentagon official abused position, misused subordinates

Michal Conger · November 4, 2013 5:00 am

Wash. Post: Agencies can’t always tell who’s dead and who’s not, so benefit checks keep coming

Washington Examiner · November 4, 2013 5:00 am

The Department of Homeland Security is conducting a review of overtime use by its employees. Carolyn Lerner, director of the Office of Special Counsel, said employees have been adding two hours of 'administratively uncontrollable overtime' without performing that work. (Colin Kelly / Staff)

Federal Times: Homeland Security overtime abuse costing millions, watchdog says

Washington Examiner · November 4, 2013 5:00 am

Not good enough. That's the verdict from jittery House and Senate Democrats on the administrative fix President Obama proposed for his new health care law.

Administration rebuffs Democrats’ calls to close Obamacare website

Richard Pollock · November 4, 2013 5:00 am

WHEC Rochester: IRS warns of new scam

WHEC Rochester: IRS warns of new scam

Washington Examiner · November 4, 2013 5:00 am

Ralph M. MarianoÃÂ has been sentenced to 10 years in prison as the "mastermind" behind an $18 million kickback scheme. (AP/Stew Milne)

Engineer going to prison for leading $18 million fraud scheme against the Navy

Michal Conger · November 4, 2013 5:00 am