The Securities and Exchange Commission does not currently have the ability to fully monitor what, by most accounts, makes up a majority of the stock t...
David Isenberg | Posted 04.11.2012
The core argument of all private military and security contractor advocates is that they can do things more cheaply and efficiently than the public sector. But the problem is that most PMSC advocates assert this all the time, often without evidence.
David Isenberg | Posted 04.04.2012
On March 29 the Government Accountability Office released a report on the state of military contracting oversight in Afghanistan.
HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 03.08.2012
WASHINGTON -- Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) sent a letter to House Republicans Thursday accusing the GOP of trying to keep portions of an investigatio...
David Isenberg | Posted 04.07.2012
The latest Quarterly and Semiannual Report of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction was released January 30. What follows are relevant excerpts of some of the more noteworthy contractor related activities.
Spencer Aronfeld | Posted 03.19.2012
How safe are those monorails at the Miami International Airport for the nearly 9,000 passengers who use them every day? Apparently not very.
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 10.24.2011
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is suggesting a New York Times reporter may be guilty of making things up in a recent critical report on th...
David Isenberg | Posted 10.01.2011
Just when you thought things were getting better in the sandbox it turns out they aren't. That is one of the conclusions in the latest quarterly report from Stuart W. Bowen, Jr, the head of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction.
David Isenberg | Posted 09.27.2011
Although COR duties are critical to the U.S. government's oversight of the TWISS contracts, almost 40% of the CORs it surveyed said the training they received did not prepare them for their duties and 25% said they lack sufficient time to conduct effective oversight.
Susan Landau | Posted 10.26.2011
Providing data in the Wiretap Report is not simply compliance with 40-year-old legislation. That information is what allows us to understand what's true about this highly intrusive and secretive investigative technique and what's not.
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 08.17.2011
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Darrell Issa's Oversight Committee may have violated House ethics rules by streaming a hearing Friday that included commercial adve...
Posted 06.16.2011
By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) The Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability has announced members of a commissi...
Wade Norris | Posted 05.25.2011
If Easley is recalled, the board's minority will become the majority, and investigations that have been blocked for years will begin, setting off a chain of events.
David Isenberg | Posted 05.25.2011
This is the fifth and final excerpt from law professor Laura Dickinson's book, Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving Public Values in a World of Priva...
Project On Government Oversight | Posted 05.25.2011
We've been hearing a lot of talk from both Democrats and Republicans characterizing "oversight" as a dangerous weapon in the wake of the election. But from our perspective, both sides need to take a different tack.
John M. Eger | Posted 05.25.2011
Our schools across the United States have a number of problems and frankly, there is no silver bullet.
David Isenberg | Posted 05.25.2011
"From 2001 to 2008, contract spending more than doubled to over 500 billion dollars ... this inattention to the workforce resulted in increased use of high-risk contracting practices."
BaselineScenario.com | Simon Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011
The House-Senate reconciliation process is still underway and some details will still change. But the broad contours of "financial reform" are already...
David Isenberg | Posted 05.25.2011
Private military and security contractor supporters often assert that they are more cost effective than their government counterparts. It is true the...
David Isenberg | Posted 05.25.2011
When troops die in a war and are returned home for burial to a place like, say, Arlington National Cemetery, there is an expectation that this national resting place will not screw up.
HuffPost Investigative Fund | Posted 05.25.2011
By Fred Schulte and Emma SchwartzHuffington Post Investigative FundComputers at a major Midwest hospital chain went awry on June 29, posting some doct...
Shahid Buttar | Posted 05.25.2011
Revelations of the FBI's "COINTELPRO" prompted a national outrage that forced the Department of Justice to enact limits in 1976 curtailing the Bureau's various abuses. Today, these problems are back.
HuffPost/AP | Posted 05.25.2011
Congress just passed a sweeping overhaul of America's financial regulatory system. The financial bill cleared the Senate by a vote of 60 to 39, and ...
Bloomberg | Posted 05.25.2011
Wells Fargo & Co., the U.S. bank with the largest branch network, eliminated free checking accounts for new customers as firms prepare for stricter co...
David Isenberg | Posted 05.25.2011
A new military task force will focus on the intersection of contractor money and political power in southern Afghanistan.
HuffingtonPost.com | D.M. Levine | Posted 04.16.2012