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GSA Watchdog: Building Security Plans Open to All Staff in Google Drive

GSA’s inspector general found 116 sensitive files, including federal building security plans, open to all staff on Google Drive despite a $7.8M scan tool.

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DOJ Inspector General: Informant Rules From 2002 Miss Cartel and Digital-Payment Risks

A DOJ inspector general audit found informant rules for ATF, the DEA and the Marshals were last updated in 2002 and do not address cartel terrorism designations or electronic payments.

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DOJ Watchdog: FCI Berlin Prison Holding ICE Detainees Short of Officers and Clinicians

The Justice Department inspector general found FCI Berlin, a New Hampshire federal prison holding ICE detainees, at half its rated population yet 54 staff short, with months-long medical delays and overnight rounds not walked.

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Palm Beach Audit: $903,000 Paid Before Approval on $54M Sheriff HQ Renovation

Palm Beach County paid a contractor for sheriff headquarters work up to 355 business days before commissioners approved it, and paid $223,243 in fees it could not document, an inspector general audit found.

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IRS Watchdog Flags 86 Undetected Searches of Public Figures’ Tax Records

A Treasury inspector general audit found IRS name searches of public figures went unflagged, 22 employees kept their jobs after browsing taxpayer records, and 276 victims were never told.

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Economics Featured US

The Uncounted Billions: What HUD’s Own Auditors Found After Nine Years Without an Improper-Payment Estimate

For nine years HUD did not produce the improper-payment estimates federal law requires for its two largest rental-assistance programs. In September its inspector general did: at least $2.7 billion a year. HUD disputes part of the finding.

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The Hundred Percent Promise: How DHS’s Own Audit Found a Forty Percent Vetting Failure

A DHS Inspector General audit found vetting errors in 40 percent of sampled Afghan evacuee case files — confirming, years later, warnings the agency’s own watchdogs first raised in 2022.

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The Organ Acquisition Loophole: How CMS’s Own Guidance Cost Medicare $380 Million for Transplants That Never Happened

A federal audit found CMS’s own guidance let Medicare pay $380 million over six years for organs never transplanted into Medicare patients. Sixteen months after being told its rule conflicts with federal law, the agency still hasn’t said whether it will fix it.

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Energy and Environment Featured US

The Bus to Nowhere: How Washington Spent $2.7 Billion and Still Couldn’t Get Schoolchildren a Ride

A federal watchdog warned in 2024 that EPA couldn’t account for $836 million in school bus grants. Two years later, the agency’s own numbers show what came of it: a bankrupt manufacturer, thousands of undelivered buses, and a program its own administrator calls a disaster.

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Truth is treason in the Empire of Lies

The two reports below are definitely of the “OMG!” caliber!  “This is the first time that I have made a recirculation request since I have been writing on the Internet for 18 years — I consider it that important.” – Col. TES Have you wondered why George Papadopoulos, Micheal Flynn, and others have been indicted by Robert Mueller […]

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Politics US

Attorney General Jeff Sessions, FBI Spox and Office of DOJ Inspector General Release Statements

Did you know the DOJ has been investigating the FBI for 11 months…. wait, what? Hold-up on the criticism folks. Three important statements today from the DOJ, FBI and OIG indicate there have been ongoing investigations and reviews of conduct Source: Attorney General Jeff Sessions, FBI Spox and Office of DOJ Inspector General Release Statements