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Arnold Fields, Afghanistan Reconstruction Watchdog, BLASTED By Congress

AP | RICHARD LARDNER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Contractors, Afghanistan, Afghan, Rebuilding, Arnold Fields, Contracts, Inspector General, Tom Coburn, Fraud, Claire McCaskill, Sigar, Chuck Grassley, Ig, Waste, Tommy Vietor, Corruption, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The U.S. official charged with combating corruption in the multibillion-dollar effort to rebuild Afghanistan failed Thursday to con...

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Elizabeth Warren and the Inspector General of the "Independent" Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection

Robert Auerbach | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elizabth Warren, House Financial Services Committee, Chris Dodd, Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, Federal Feserve, Ig, Barney Frank, Elizabeth Warren, Politics News
Robert Auerbach

The Inspector General was generally missing from discussions about the deceptive practices found in the Congressional investigations of the Federal Reserve. Not a good sign for oversight of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection.

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Shahien Nasiripour

Watchdog: Obama Foreclosure Program Is Likely To Be A Failure

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Loan Modification, Mortgage Modifications, Making Home Affordable, Mortgage Walk Away, Mha, Neil Barofsky, Obama Administration, Inspector General, Hamp, Foreclosure Crisis, Home Affordable Modification Program, Financial Crisis, Strategic Defaults, Sigtarp, Ig, Video, Business News

The Obama administration's signature foreclosure-prevention program is likely to be a failure and has not done enough to help struggling homeowners wh...

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Sam Stein

IG Report: Waterboarding Was Neither "Efficacious Or Medically Safe"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Torture Memos Obama, Released Torture Memos, CIA Torture, Waterboarding, Bush Memo, Torture Memo, Cia Torture Memos, Torture Memos, Torture, Bush Torture Memos, Torture Doj, Water Boarding, Cia Inspector General Report, Eugene Robinson on Ls, Waterboarding Is Not Torture, Ig, Ig Torture Report, Politics News

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 wate...

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Serious Shortcomings in Obama's Oversight of Stimulus Spending

Max Stier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Government, Economic Stimulus Package, Government Bailout, Federal Government, Steven Chu, Economic Crisis, President Obama, Department of Energy, Ig, Politics News
Max Stier

The economic stimulus package has raised serious questions about the ability of our federal government to fulfill its basic duties, and will require more than just close scrutiny.

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