Tag: Watchdog

VA progress on claims backlog is a statistical illusion, vets groups say

VA progress on claims backlog is a statistical illusion, vets groups say

Mark Flatten · August 20, 2013 4:00 am

A 2010 Chevrolet CG3300 passenger van (Courtesy photo)

DoD has cars, but doesn’t care to drive them

Kelly Cohen · August 20, 2013 4:00 am

A convenience store in Washington D.C. displays signage for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, (SNAP) commonly known as food stamps. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

UPDATED: Food stamp trafficking on the rise, rules as lax as ever

Michal Conger · August 20, 2013 4:00 am

FILE - In this July 13, 2007 file photo, workers with the Pebble Mine project test drill in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska near the village of Iliamma, Alaska. The battle over a copper and gold mine near one of the world's premiere salmon fisheries is headed to the ballot in a vote next week that has turned a normally sleepy local election into a national environmental debate. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, File)

Energy and Environment

New evidence points to former EPA official pushing pre-emptive Pebble Mine veto

M.D. Kittle · August 18, 2013 4:00 am

The Department of Housing and Urban Development transferred money from a defunct spinoff of ACORN to another still in operation. (AP File)

Judicial Watch: Feds give housing grant to ACORN affiliate despite federal ban

Michal Conger · August 15, 2013 4:00 am

Steven Rattner, Obama's "car czar," oversaw the Treasury Department's management of GM's bankruptcy and insisted on completing the process in only 40 days/ (AP File)

Obama’s car czar pressured GM to accept union pension demand

Mark Tapscott · August 15, 2013 4:00 am

Nuclear-waste delays force big payouts by government

Energy and Environment

Nuclear-waste delays force big payouts by government

Luke Rosiak · August 15, 2013 4:00 am

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Mislabeled hospitals cost Medicare too much, IG reports

Kelly Cohen · August 15, 2013 4:00 am

Feds award states for making fewest food stamp mistakes

Feds award states for making fewest food stamp mistakes

Michal Conger · August 15, 2013 4:00 am

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USDA spends $4 million on time clocks, doesn’t know how long food inspectors work

Michal Conger · August 14, 2013 4:00 am

Former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson announced her resignation in December 2012 following revelations of her use of a non de plume in a government email address to conduct official business. (AP Photo)

EPA’s Jackson used fake, home emails to work with Siemens executive

Mark Tapscott · August 14, 2013 4:00 am

A convenience store in Washington D.C. displays signage for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Bigger food stamp program means more lost to waste, fraud

Michal Conger · August 14, 2013 4:00 am