Tag: Watchdog

Growing questions about credibility of EPA’s Pebble Mine ‘science’

Energy and Environment

Growing questions about credibility of EPA’s Pebble Mine ‘science’

M.D. Kittle · August 4, 2013 4:00 am

Pentagon paid billions to defense firms that previously defrauded the government

Luke Rosiak · August 3, 2013 4:00 am

This 2010 bulletin from the Department of Homeland Security describes in rudimentary terms how a pressure cooker can be used to create a bomb. Michele Catalano and her husband just wanted to buy one for home cooking when suddenly an anti-terrorist squad showed up on their Long Island home's doorstep. (AP Photo)

Careful what you search for on the Internet

Eric Boehm · August 3, 2013 4:00 am

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. (AP/Charles Dharapak)

Darrell Issa subpoenas Treasury for IRS targeting documents

Michal Conger · August 2, 2013 4:00 am

The top watchdog in charge of U.S. reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan warned that the U.S. will waste billions of dollars without better contractor oversight. (AP File)

Billions at risk in Afghanistan without better contractor oversight, watchdog warns

Michal Conger · August 1, 2013 4:00 am

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., signed a letter demanding documents from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau concerning Rajeev Date. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

House panels demand info on CFPB’s revolving door

Richard Pollock · August 1, 2013 4:00 am

The co-ops are required under federal law to file IRS Form 990 tax returns each year.

Stealthy Obamacare co-ops refuse to file public disclosure tax forms

Richard Pollock · August 1, 2013 4:00 am

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Congressional watchdog wants HHS to keep track of doctors choosing cancer treatment based on financial gain

Michal Conger · August 1, 2013 4:00 am

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif, said the actions of the IRS under acting Commissioner Danny Werfel has shown that the agency has no intention of assisting the House Oversight Committee in its probe of the treatment of some conservative groups. (Examiner/Graeme Jennings)

House investigators often get cold shoulder from Obama’s executive branch

Michal Conger · July 31, 2013 4:00 am

Coal-fired power plants currently account for about 40 percent of all electricity used in the U.S., but the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has promulgated regulations that are pressuring owners to close many of the plants. (AP/Matthew Brown)

Energy and Environment

Ethics issues shadow Obama’s anti-coal FERC nominee

Michal Conger · July 31, 2013 4:00 am

Recipients of federal disability checks often admit that they are capable of working but cannot or will not find a job. (Photo: Thinkstock)

EXography: Many disability recipients admit they could work

Luke Rosiak · July 30, 2013 4:00 am

Between 2008 and 2012, the Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency gave away almost $11 million to about 1,100 farmers who had been dead for a year or more. (Thinkstock)

Watchdog: USDA gives $11 million to dead farmers

Kelly Cohen · July 30, 2013 4:00 am