There always seems to be plenty of money and will to rescue financial giants, but when the working stiffs of America need help to get paid, our government doesn't have enough resources to help.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 07.19.2008 | Business
For decades, conservatives have vilified the word regulation. This has brought us corporate slavery approved by the U.S. government and panic lines of depositors outside banks.
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
As the Washington Post reported Tuesday, there are several stark differences between the two latest high-profile government assessments of Iraq. While...
Sen. Bernie Sanders | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
The need for more aggressive scrutiny is abundantly clear. GAO has identified $295 billion in cost overruns -- the Pentagon can't balance its books or keep track of its vast inventory.
Reuters | Jim Wolf | Posted 06.18.2008 | Business
U.S. auditors urged the Air Force Wednesday to rerun its marathon, $35 billion competition for refueling aircraft, upholding a protest by losing bidde...
AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is undermining the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to determine health dangers of toxic chemicals...
Steve Clemons | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics
Daily Show host Jon Stewart and Comedy Central Senior Military Analyst Rob Riggle had a mention-worthy chat last night about an important new Govern...
Information Week | Thomas Clayburn | Posted 04.11.2008 | Business
Sensitive military items are being offered for sale through eBay and Craigslist, the Government Accountability Office said in a report issued Thursday...
Washington Post | Dan Eggen | Posted 04.09.2008 | Business
The Washington Post reports: Federal employees used government credit cards to pay for lingerie, gambling, iPods, Internet dating services, and a $1...
Sunil Chacko | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics
Senator Evan Bayh is on the short-list of vice-presidential candidates for both Obama and Clinton -- so his effectiveness as the potential president of the Senate is a matter of some importance.
Washington Post | Dana Hedgpeth | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics
Government auditors issued a scathing review yesterday of dozens of the Pentagon's biggest weapons systems, saying ships, aircraft and satellites are ...
William Fisher | Posted 02.19.2008 | Politics
In a government of incompetents, spinners, cronies, political hacks, wiretappers and torturers, David Walker's GAO has been one of the very few bright lights in town.
AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 01.15.2008 | Politics
The Bush administration, in its last so-called Iraq "benchmark" report, used questionable financial data to assert that the Baghdad government was mak...
Dina Rasor | Posted 12.06.2007 | Media
People are angry now and politicians are reacting to these stories with promises of reform. But where was the outrage at the beginning of the war?
Associated Press | HOPE YEN | Posted 10.02.2007 | Home
Federal employees wasted at least $146 million over a one-year period on business- and first-class airline tickets, in some cases simply because they ...
Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 09.26.2007 | Politics
More than seven months have passed since the major problems were revealed by the Washington Post -- and after seven months, our veterans continue to wait.
Dina Rasor | Posted 09.21.2007 | Politics
It will take the Congress to establish a commission to start peel back the layers of fraud, fat and waste in this war and find out why the troops are still not getting what they need.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 09.10.2007 | Politics
Like Pontius Pilate washing his hands of responsibility, too many in the Washington press corps want to pretend they are leaving the question of "what is truth" to their readers -- refusing to admit that there is even such a thing as truth.
Alex Cornell du Houx | Posted 09.06.2007 | Politics
It is part of my duty as an American soldier to learn how our policies reflect on the ground, and whether we are making headway. It was my experiences in Iraq that guided me to where I stand on the war today.
Jon Soltz | Posted 09.04.2007 | Politics
The GAO report is a strong and sobering look at Iraq, and far more truthful than what the White House has been shoveling to the American people. But, I have to question what this "partial" grade is.
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Robyn Blumner | Posted 07.22.2008 | Business