Tag: Watchdog

Prince George's County is expecting to receive an additional $12.5 million after a successful bid to change the way the state accounts for county wealth. (Photo: Thinkstock)

WATCHDOG EXCLUSIVE! IRS doles out $92 million in employee bonuses

Mark Tapscott · May 16, 2013 4:00 am

Prince George's County is expecting to receive an additional $12.5 million after a successful bid to change the way the state accounts for county wealth. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Beltway Confidential

IRS exec got $42k in bonuses in three years

Mark Tapscott · May 15, 2013 4:00 am

ANATOMY OF THE LAND GRABS: Critics say conservation easements help the federal government gobble up more land.

Energy and Environment

Taxpayers funding huge federal land grabs that may harm environment

Dustin Hurst · May 15, 2013 4:00 am

State Watchdogs: New Mexico’s Martinez clamps down on unaudited bureaucrats

State Watchdogs: New Mexico’s Martinez clamps down on unaudited bureaucrats

Rob Nikolewski · May 14, 2013 4:00 am

The city of Tullahoma, TN, spent millions to offer residents the hyper-fast LightTUBe Internet connection but so far has found no takers for the service. (Photo courtesy of Watchdog.org)

Small town spends millions on hyper-fast Internet nobody wants … yet

Chris Butler · May 13, 2013 4:00 am

National Security

Two apparent NASA espionage cases have striking similarities

Richard Pollock · May 10, 2013 4:00 am

VA’s No. 2 lawyer is agency’s No. 1 bonus man

Mark Flatten · May 9, 2013 4:00 am

Claims paperwork piled high in the 6th Floor Claims Storage Filing Area of the VA regional office in Winston-Salem, N.C. (Photo: VA Inspector General's office)

EXAMINER EXCLUSIVE: Failing VA officials collected massive bonuses for years

Mark Flatten · May 8, 2013 4:00 am

When the VA refused to provide any information to The Washington Examiner, the paper was forced to turn to other means to seek out information, including subscription-based research sites and databases. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Washington Examiner got bonus data with no thanks to VA

Mark Flatten · May 8, 2013 4:00 am

National Security

Former NASA contractor agrees to deportation

Richard Pollock · May 2, 2013 4:00 am

Bo Jiang took NASA scientist’s imaging data to China

Richard Pollock · May 1, 2013 4:00 am

VA Deputy Secretary W. Scott Gould visits the Robert J. Dole Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the Regional Office Center in Wichita, Kan., last year. (VA photo by Curtis Tasset)

VA’s No. 2 official, Scott Gould, leaving agency

Washington Examiner · April 29, 2013 4:00 am