Critics charge S&P played an important role in lobbying to prevent Wall Street from being held accountable for abusive practices -- and by providing their seal of approval to toxic mortgages that helped spark America's economic woes.
The FBI's 2010 "Year in Review" mortgage fraud report says the agency has used wiretaps, undercover operatives and "tactical analysis coupled with advanced statistical correlations and computer technologies." Not everyone is impressed.
A new redacted report details how Charles L. Gephart was promoted to a higher-paying position in Washington, D.C., even though he continued to live in Fayetteville, Ark.
Rick Perry's record as governor of Texas reveals the chairman of the state environmental agency writing vitriolic letters to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and questioning the science behind climate change.
Rick Perry needs to move fast in the presidential money chase to capitalize on his strong suit: the army of large donors who have raised more than $100 million for his gubernatorial campaigns since 2001.
Even by Washington standards, health information technology companies seem exceptional; 70% of registered lobbyists who worked for such firms in the past two quarters have passed through Washington's infamous "revolving door."
By Peter H. Stone, iWatch NewsAt his ocean front home in chic La Jolla, Mitt Romney is hosting a party for scores of his top campaign bundlers to mo...
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said two reactors were taken off line near Lake Anna in central Virginia, near the epicenter of Tuesday's earthquake, which shook buildings up and down the east coast.
By Peter H. Stone, iWatch NewsTop Romney campaign fundraiser Steve Roche has jumped to Restore Our Future to help spearhead the Super PAC's multimil...
Koch Industries, a leader of industry resistance to proposed post-9/11 anti-terrorism safeguards at petrochemical plants, owns 56 facilities using hazardous chemicals that put 4.8 million Americans who live nearby at risk.
By Evan Bush, iWatch NewsMany Republican candidates are challenging the government's role in protecting the environment, and showing that Obama isn'...
By Sharon Weinberger, iWatch NewsThe rush to war in the months following the terrorist attacks of 9/11 created an urgency in the Pentagon, not just ...
By Peter H. Stone, iWatch NewsRick Perry's GOP presidential campaign has rapidly assembled an impressive roster of bundlers who have each signed up ...
By Emma Schwartz, iWatch NewsA substantial number of public schools on military bases are in either poor or failing condition, and many are overcrow...