Tag: Watchdog

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen testifies before the House Oversight Committee as lawmakers continue their probe of whether Tea Party groups were improperly targeted for increased scrutiny by the IRS, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday. The sign in the background was displayed by the Republican majority staff of the committee. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Federal judge orders IRS to swear that it can’t recover Lois Lerner’s lost emails

Mark Flatten · July 10, 2014 7:05 pm

Students of the Muthesius Art Academy stand around a bed for Edward Snowden in front of a Snowden poster in Kiel, Germany, in June. The academy wants to offer Snowden asylum symbolically to mark the one-year anniversary of the NSA whistleblowing. (Photo: Ruben Neugebauer/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)

Here’s what the company that vetted Edward Snowden for the NSA just got

Kelly Cohen · July 10, 2014 5:34 pm

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Why pro-democracy broadcasters targeting Cuba feel demoralized

Kelly Cohen · July 10, 2014 10:00 am

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How much time did a key Obama official spend investigating the IRS’ Tea Party targeting?

Kelly Cohen · July 10, 2014 9:00 am

2 companies that outsourced jobs got state money

2 companies that outsourced jobs got state money

Washington Examiner · July 10, 2014 12:15 am

Embattled former Internal Revenue Service senior executive Lois Lerner cautioned colleagues against including comments in official emails that might be seen by Congress. (AP/Lauren Victoria Burke)

What Lois Lerner told her IRS colleagues not to say in emails

Mark Tapscott · July 9, 2014 9:18 pm

Improper payments by federal government top $100B

Improper payments by federal government top $100B

Stephen Ohlemacher · July 9, 2014 8:33 pm

10-year sentence for ex-New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin

10-year sentence for ex-New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin

Kevin McGill · July 9, 2014 3:15 pm

James Tuchschmidt, a top official at the Veterans Health Administration, the VA's health care arm, makes an opening statement while testifying before a House Veterans' Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. Tuchschmidt said he was sorry that VA employees have suffered retaliation after making whistleblower complaints. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Veterans Affairs apologizes to whistleblowers facing retaliation

Matthew Daly · July 9, 2014 12:50 pm

Fla sheriff pays $1.15M in wrongful death case

Fla sheriff pays $1.15M in wrongful death case

Washington Examiner · July 9, 2014 11:53 am

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The U.S. has spent $626 million on embassy expansion it may not need in this country

Kelly Cohen · July 9, 2014 10:00 am

This Tuesday, June 8, 2014 photo provided by the New York City Special Narcotics Prosecutor's Office shows Anthony D'Alessandro. The former pharmacy chief for Mount Sinai Beth Israel hospital in Manhattan allegedly stole nearly 200,000 oxycodone pills from the medical center over more than five years and has been charged under a state drug-kingpin law more often aimed at accused street dealers, narcotics prosecutors said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Special Narcotics Prosecutor's Office)

Hospital pharmacist charged in theft of 200K pills

Jennifer Peltz · July 8, 2014 9:31 pm