Secretary of State John Kerry says if it were up to him, the State Department would already have a permanent inspector general, a critical position that has been vacant for more than five years.
One longstanding argument for the use of private military and security companies is that they can facilitate undertaking interventions for human right...
As troops are replaced with private security contractors, it would be foolish for a new administration to continue to ignore the vivid warnings of what happens when the U.S. outsources its inherent governmental functions.
Were they the least bit interested in exercising any oversight at all into the war that American soldiers are still fighting and dying in -- and that Chinese bond buyers are still providing the cash for -- members of Congress wouldn't have to go very far to find some excellent questions.
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...
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.
On March 29 the Government Accountability Office released a report on the state of military contracting oversight in Afghanistan.
WASHINGTON -- Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) sent a letter to House Republicans Thursday accusing the GOP of trying to keep portions of an investigatio...
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.
How safe are those monorails at the Miami International Airport for the nearly 9,000 passengers who use them every day? Apparently not very.
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...
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.
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.
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.
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Darrell Issa's Oversight Committee may have violated House ethics rules by streaming a hearing Friday that included commercial adve...
By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) The Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability has announced members of a commissi...
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.
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...
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.
Our schools across the United States have a number of problems and frankly, there is no silver bullet.
"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."
The House-Senate reconciliation process is still underway and some details will still change. But the broad contours of "financial reform" are already...
Private military and security contractor supporters often assert that they are more cost effective than their government counterparts. It is true the...
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.
By Fred Schulte and Emma SchwartzHuffington Post Investigative FundComputers at a major Midwest hospital chain went awry on June 29, posting some doct...
