By Edward Felker - Washington Guardian
The Energy Department paid the builder of its planned weapon-grade plutonium reprocessing plant millions of dollars in taxpayer money for unnecessary employee living expenses, government auditors concluded Monday. Published May 21, 2013
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
When the chairman of one of the tea party groups targeted by the IRS for special scrutiny saw the agency's questions, his first thought was that the queries were so outrageous that the Obama administration was engaging in campaign opposition research. Published May 15, 2013
By Sara Carter - Washington Guardian
Just miles from New York City’s hallowed Ground Zero, an Internet server in New Jersey hosts a Jihadist leader’s website that instructs supporters of al-Qaida to use explosive devices against western civilians, along with blueprints showing how to build the bombs. Published May 15, 2013
By Phillip Swarts - Washington Guardian
The U.S. spends more money on defense than any other nation in the world. So in an era of fiscal challenge, the Pentagon looked for ways to reduce costs. Published May 9, 2013
By Sara Carter - Washington Guardian
The Afghan military is "marginally" capable of repelling attacks from the Islamist extremists who antagonize large parts of the country, according to an internal Pentagon assessment that raises red flags for President Obama's plan to withdraw the majority of US troops next year. Published April 25, 2013
By Phillip Swarts - Washington Guardian
When putting money in a bank, interest is a big consideration for most people. But apparently not to the government. Published April 18, 2013
By Sara Carter - Washington Guardian
Long before the gruesome bombings at the Boston marathon, U.S. counterterrorism officials feared that the improvised explosive devices used so effectively by insurgents on the Iraq and Afghanistan battlefields might one day make their way to U.S. shores. Published April 16, 2013
By Phillip Swarts - Washington Guardian
Charged with trying to prevent the next Enron or Bernie Madoff scandal, the Securities and Exchange Commission hasn't kept close enough tabs on its own financial books. Published April 11, 2013
By Sara Carter - Washington Guardian
The blind sheik, convicted of orchestrating the deadly World Trade Center bombing 20 years ago, has benefited from a sophisticated social media messaging machine despite serving life in prison in a solitary confinement cell in North Carolina. Published April 11, 2013
By Brad Kalbfeld - Washington Guardian
The federal program that protects workers in multiemployer pension plans expects to be exhausted in 10 to 15 years, and the financial hit will most likely land on retirees, a new report said this week. Published April 9, 2013
By Phillip Swarts - Washington Guardian
The chief U.S. watchdog in Afghanistan has taken the rare step of issuing a public warning about the safety of structures that Americans built for the Afghan military after the U.S. Army refused to replace flammable materials already linked to three fires. Published April 8, 2013
By John Solomon - Washington Guardian
Fifteen months before the Fast & Furious gun scandal was unmasked in public, Homeland Security agents along the Arizona border recognized that their colleagues at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were allowing illegal guns to flow across the border to Mexican drug gangs in violation of federal policy. Published April 2, 2013
By John Solomon - Washington Guardian
It was among the more obscure programs tucked into the 2009 stimulus law, a $145 million Agriculture Department effort to buy easements from landowners to help restore natural floodplains. Published March 31, 2013
By Phillip Swarts - Washington Guardian
Federal employees are facing unpaid days off and salary cuts due to the sequester, but several contract workers inside the Energy Department are raking in the cash. Published March 28, 2013
By Phillip Swarts - Washington Guardian
Computer hackers and identity thieves have taken on a new roll: agents of the Homeland Security Department. Published March 28, 2013
