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Coburn Questions Stimulus Contracts to Suspended Contractors

Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., has sent a letter (PDF) to Defense Secretary Robert Gates asking why contractors under criminal … more…

Labor Dept., Congress Plan Improvements to System to Care for Injured War Contractors

The Labor Department has launched a series of changes to improve the controversial federal system designed to provide medical care an … more…

Some Stimulus Proposals Didn’t Make the Cut

Looks like the Department of Defense might have to wait for the next stimulus package to steam clean the bird droppings off a … more…

Civilian Contractor Toll in Iraq and Afghanistan Ignored by Defense Dept.

As the war in Afghanistan entered its ninth year, the Labor Department recently released new figures for the number of civilian contr … more…

Pentagon Study Proposes Overhaul of Defense Base Act to Cover Care for Injured Contractors

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congress could save as much as $250 million a year through a sweeping overhaul of the controversial U.S. system … more…

Report Finds Advantages in Gov’t Takeover of Care for Injured Contractors

The Congressional Research Service has found that the Defense Department was paying far higher premiums to insure civilians working i … more…

Pentagon Junkets and Stimulus Pet Projects

Here are our editors' picks from today's roundup of investigative stories around the Web. Was there a story we missed? Please keep se … more…

Pentagon’s IG to Examine AIG Insurance Provided to Private Contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan

The Defense Department's inspector general is preparing a possible audit to examine allegations that inadequate oversight by federal … more…

Quick Picks: PTSD and Muni Bonds

An Iraq war veteran asked his Army psychologist last June why he had been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder instead of PTSD and was … more…

Quick Picks: Contractor Fraud Findings and Fuzzy Unemployment Stats

Defense Department spending on contractors surged during the Bush administration, but Pentagon inspectors sent 76 percent fewer contr … more…

GAO Says Gov’t Accounting Still FUBAR

The federal government released its financial report (PDF) this week, and for the 12th year in a row, the comptroller general said hi … more…

The U.S. Military’s $3.5 Billion Petty Cash Box for Iraq

The idea has natural appeal: Give money to U.S. troops, who with the benefit of daily, direct contact with Iraqis, will spend it whe … more…

McCain Bundler’s Donors Raise Eyebrows

Seldom is a news story so full of question marks as today's Washington Post piece on Harry Sargeant III. Sargeant, who runs a major … more…

Report Faults Military for Handling of Sexual Assaults

There are serious problems in the way the Department of Defense is handling sexual assaults, according to a preliminary report (PDF) … more…

Big FOIA Backlog Lingers

Earlier this month, the Coalition of Journalists for Open Government ran out of funding. But before it shuts its doors, the advocacy … more…

New Report Documents Detainee Treatment in Gitmo and Iraq

For the administration's detainee policy, it's been two weeks full of revelations and upheavals.

Last week, the Supreme Court upset … more…

McClatchy’s Major Detainee Investigation Comes Amid Major Staff Cutbacks

Earlier this week the McClatchy Washington Bureau published an impressive five-part investigation into detention facilities in Guanta … more…

Senate Investigation Reveals Frank 2002 Discussion of Gitmo Interrogation

For 18 months, the Senate Armed Services Committee has been conducting a wide-ranging investigation into the military's adoption of n … more…