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Two Republican senators asked Monday for a congressional hearing to look at whether President Barack Obama acted appropriately when he fired the national service agency's inspector general earlier this month.
A Democratic senator on Tuesday joined Republicans in questioning President Barack Obama's firing of the internal watchdog for the federal AmeriCorps program.
The national service agency's inspector general, fired by President Barack Obama, disputed on Wednesday claims from the White House that he was "confused" and "disoriented" at an agency meeting.
The Senate could move next week to approve a New York prosecutor as watchdog over the $700 billion financial rescue plan — the Troubled Asset Relief Program, known as TARP — after a lone senator apparently lifted his opposition to the nomination, two senators said Thursday.
The radical shift in the focus of the $700 billion economic bailout package led one senator Wednesday to question what the young prosecutor tapped to be the program's inspector general will be investigating.
Forty-one House members are calling on the Defense Department inspector general to investigate a public relations effort that relied on retired military officers to defend the administration's Iraq war policies.
Pfc. Jason Scheuerman committed suicide in Iraq on July 30, 2005. His parents do not believe a thorough and independent investigation was conducted. His father sought the assistance of Rep. Bob Etheridge, D-N.C., who spoke with Army Secretary Pete Geren on Oct. 1 and asked him to initiate an investigation by the Army's Inspector General's Office. Geren agreed. Here are some of the findings of the other investigations:
The State Department's embattled inspector general, accused of impeding a Justice Department investigation of Blackwater Worldwide, announced his resignation Friday, saying a poisonous political atmosphere in Washington deters people from careers in public service.
Key members of Congress vowed Friday to defend the independence of the CIA's inspector general and to put an end to the agency's probe of its own internal investigator.
The work of the CIA's in-house investigator who found fault with the agency's handling of the Sept. 11 attacks is being subjected to an internal review, published reports say.
A severe lack of maintenance appears to be threatening the future usefulness of some of the facilities renovated during the effort to rebuild Iraq, says a new report from the U.S. inspector general monitoring reconstruction.
'Battle of the badges' between ATF and FBIAgents of the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives are feuding over bomb investigations, failing to share information and refusing to train together, according to a draft report.
U.S. contractor electrocuted in shower in IraqA State Department contractor apparently has been electrocuted while showering in Baghdad even as U.S. authorities in Iraq try to remedy wiring problems that have led to other deaths.
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CIA Interrogation Program Was Effective and CircumscribedWhoever advised people to be skeptical of what they read in the papers must have had in mind this week's coverage of the documents about CIA interrogations.
At V.A., Scrutiny Over Abuses and $24 Million in Bonuses Even as their office struggled with a large budget deficit, managers in the technology office of the Department of Veterans Affairs awarded $24 million in bonuses to thousands of employees in 2007 and 2008, according to a new investigative report.
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Military blamed in Green Beret electrocutionMilitary leaders and a major military contractor failed to protect a Green Beret who was electrocuted while showering in his barracks in Iraq, the U.S. Defense Department determined.
Report blasts FEMA on trailer formaldehydeThe Federal Emergency Management Agency took too long to respond to initial reports of dangerous levels of formaldehyde in trailers delivered to hurricane victims, exposing people to possible health risks.
George Bush's Most Recent Accomplice in Crime? Barack Obama.The Bush-era torture regime might have been that administration's most flamboyant act of criminality, but its illegal NSA warrantless eavesdropping program (and other still-unknown surveillance programs) has always been the clearest.
Report: Bush surveillance program was massiveThe Bush administration built an unprecedented surveillance operation to pull in mountains of information far beyond the warrantless wiretapping previously acknowledged, a team of federal inspectors general reported Friday, questioning the legal basis for the effort but shielding …
Inspector General: Excessive Secrecy Undermined National Security EffortsA report by inspectors general from five intelligence agencies said the administration's tight control over who learned of the program also contributed to flawed legal arguments that nearly prompted mass resignations in the Justice Department five years ago.
Report: Bush Surveillance Program Was MassiveThe Bush administration built an unprecedented surveillance operation to pull in mountains of information far beyond the warrantless wiretapping previously acknowledged, a team of federal inspectors general reported Friday, questioning the legal basis for the effort but shielding …
Obama pushes to delay release of CIA reportThe Obama administration said Thursday that it needs two more months to review an internal CIA report on the agency's secret detention and interrogation program before making it public.
An Obama "scandal" as phony as Whitewater To Barack Obama's most excitable adversaries, the firing of the Americorps inspector general that the president ordered last week is an incipient scandal, as loud and thrilling as Whitewater once was.
Timing of Treasury Department challenge, AIG probe raises concernsA Treasury Department challenge to the authority of government bailout watchdog Neil M. Barofsky came just as he had begun a sensitive investigation of the department's role in approving bonuses to executives of insurance giant AIG, sources said Thursday.
Will Obama's Firing of an Inspector General Evolve Into a Major Scandal?Last Wednesday a man named Gerald Walpin, a U.S. inspector general investigating the possible misuse of Americorps funds, received a call from the White House informing him of his firing, a firing some believe was politically motivated and highly illegal.
Obama Fires "Inspector General" After Critical Waste Report An inspector general fired by President Obama says he was given no warning and only one hour to decide whether to resign or be let go, hinting the action was retaliation for a report highly critical of Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, a former NBA basketball star and an Obama supp …
Obama ousts AmeriCorps' IG who investigated friend President Barack Obama says he has lost confidence in the inspector general who investigates AmeriCorps and other national service programs and has told Congress he is removing him from the position
Federal Reserve Cannot Account For $9 Trillion (w/video)Rep. Alan Grayson talks to the Federal Reserve Inspector General Elizabeth Coleman of the Federal Reserve, asking her questions regarding trillions of dollars that came from the Fed's expanded balance sheet and what the losses on its $2 trillion portfolio are.
Policeman killed after bomb in MosulA car bomb went off Sunday near the governor's residence in the turbulent northern city of Mosul, killing a policeman and wounding three civilians.
Is Anyone Minding the Store at the Federal Reserve?Rep. Alan Grayson asks the Federal Reserve Inspector General about the trillions of dollars lent or spent by the Federal Reserve and where it went, and the trillions of off balance sheet obligations.
Hill Panel Reviewing CIA TacticsWhen the Justice Department said seven years ago that CIA interrogators at a secret prison in Thailand could make a suspected al-Qaeda leader fear he was drowning, it prescribed precise limits: Water could be poured from a cup or small watering can onto a saturated cloth covering …
IG Report: Waterboarding Was Neither "Efficacious Or Medically Safe"A CIA inspector general's report from May 2004 that is set to be declassified by the Obama White House will almost certainly disprove claims that waterboarding was only used in controlled circumstances with effective results.
Report: Bush Administration Appointee Awarded Sole Source Contracts to Ideologically Favored Companies, IndividualsA former Justice Department grant-making administrator violated federal ethics and procurement rules in awarding hundreds of thousands of dollars in sole source contracts to ideologically favored companies and individuals, the department's inspector general concluded today.
Bank Bailout 'Tilted in Favor of Private Investors', May Hurt Taxpayers, Be Open to Fraud, Cost $2 Trillion: Inspector General ReportTaxpayers are increasingly exposed to losses and the government is more vulnerable to fraud under Obama administration initiatives that have created a federal bank bailout program of "unprecedented scope," a government report finds.
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