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May 6, 2016
What is Going on Behind the Attacks on SIGAR?
These are dangerous days for the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, whose investigation of waste and wrongdoing in the $113 billion effort to rebuild Afghanistan— particularly of an overpriced gas station—has unleashed a firestorm of
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Topics: Government Accountability
May 2, 2016
By Neil Gordon
CIA Watchdog Finds Abuses in Use of Independent Contractors
A newly released Inspector General audit found the CIA broke the law in its hiring and managing its independent contractors. The agency might also have overpaid for the services.
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Topics: Contract Oversight
May 2, 2016
MOX Contractor Slammed for Poor Performance
Documents FOIA’d and released by Savannah River Site Watch reveal the contractor in charge of the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication (MOX) project is not performing at the level needed to successfully complete the project.
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Topics: Contract Oversight
April 28, 2016
By Neil Gordon
Plaintiffs Protest PACER Pricing
A proposed class action lawsuit alleges the office that runs the PACER court-document access system has been ripping off users for years.
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Topics: Government Accountability, Open Government
April 27, 2016
DoD Proposes Increasing Employee Spending Limits
The DoD recently proposed legislation to increase the micro-purchase threshold from $3,000 to $10,000. Past abuses of purchase cards highlight the risks of increasing this limit.
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Topics: Government Accountability
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