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Agency Oversight

Lawmakers tee up federal fraud scorecard to measure agency programs

Social Security’s SSI program and the IRS’s Earned Income Tax Credit program are among those subject to the new federal fraud scorecard.

Management

IG backs legislation to keep important oversight tool alive

Federal Report

Eternal question: What to keep, what to toss out

Agency Oversight

Lead pandemic watchdog urges lawmakers to extend COVID anti-fraud tool to all federal spending

Agency Oversight

The Drug Enforcement Administration fails its own lie detector policy

Tom Temin Commentary

How to fix the Bureau of Prisons

Agency Oversight

DOJ IG Horowitz reviews a decade of Bureau of Prisons crisis oversight

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Agency Oversight

Federal watchdogs still uncovering full scope of fraud in $5T COVID spending

Biden Justice Nominations

Agency Oversight

How to find data on millions and millions of pandemic federal funding awards

Agency Oversight

Pandemic broke down some, but not all barriers for IGs

Government Accountability Office Acting Comptroller General Gene Dodaro, testifies before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on "Tracking the Money: Preventing Waste, Fraud and Abuse of Recovery Act Funding" on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, July 8, 2009, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Agency Oversight

Pandemic relief oversight sheds new light on persistent gaps in federal spending data

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Agency Oversight

Senators seek 'guardrails' on expanded subpoena power for inspectors general

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Agency Oversight

Incarceration in the Age of COVID

Workforce

House committee passes bill to prevent another Schedule F executive order from happening

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Agency Oversight

Top challenges for IGs with the new administration

FILE - This March 27, 2020 file photo shows the signature of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act after it passed in the House on Capitol Hill in Washington. Since the pandemic began, Congress has set aside trillions of dollars to ease the crisis. A joint KHN and Associated Press investigation finds that many communities with big outbreaks have spent little of that federal money on local public health departments for work such as testing and contact tracing. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Agency Oversight

Congress approved CARES Act money, but how was it dished out?

The American flag flies outside of the Justice Department building, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Workforce

DOJ investigators have mixed reviews of agency's COVID-19 response, IG says

Agency Oversight

Pandemic board gets first permanent chair after Trump’s watchdog shakeup

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Search for Accountability

Department of Justice Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz

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Agency Oversight

Federal prisons are facing threats from drones dropping contraband, surveilling facilities

Agency Oversight

IGs on pandemic oversight board warn job well done still means billions in fraud

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Agency Oversight

Undercover money laundering ops help DEA fight illegal drugs but have risks

A man wearing a mask depicting American flags jogs past the U.S. Capitol Building, Tuesday, April 28, 2020, in Washington. The U.S. House of Representatives has canceled plans to return next week, a reversal after announcing it a day earlier. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Congress

Latest pandemic spending bill grants IG protections, USPS funding, 2020 census extensions

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