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Medicaid innovation programs ran up $32 billion tab, watchdog says

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

The most egregious examples of government waste, fraud or abuse.

Experiments to make Medicaid better at no extra cost instead ran up $32 billion tab

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

"Imagine beginning every month not knowing what money you have and not being able to track how much you've spent. Yet year after year, that's where the federal government operates."

GAO comptroller says federal government is flying blind, wasting money

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times - The Washington Times

First Lady Michelle Obama and celebrity TV food maven Rachael Ray. (credit: Washington Guardian)

Schools struggle to meet Obama’s new lunch rules, serve less healthy food

By Andrew Phillips - Washington Guardian

** FILE ** Ringo, a bomb-sniffing dog, listens to trainer Adam Ward, a contractor working for American K-9 Interdiction, as dog handler Marine Cpl. William Childs observes in Helmand province, Afghanistan, in 2009. The Pentagon also has spent more than $200 million a year developing devices to detect roadside bombs. (Associated Press)

GAO report conflicts with Army over battlefield intelligence system

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Rep. Duncan Hunter, California Republican and a member of the House Armed Services Committee.

California Rep. Duncan Hunter wants audit of U.S. secrecy in wake of NSA leak

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

Sen. Susan M. Collins, Maine Republican, said employers should be allowed to calculate full-time employees based on a 40-hour workweek instead of 30 hours under the new health law. "This is not a hypothetical concern," Ms. Collins said. (Associated Press)

GAO sees problem meeting health law deadlines

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Rep. Duncan Hunter of California, a Marine combat veteran who sits on the House Armed Services Committee, called Wednesday for an audit of all U.S. government secrecy standards. (Associated Press)

Rep. Duncan Hunter questions security ‘classification inflation’

The Washington Times

President Barack Obama receives the Presidential Daily Briefing from Robert Cardillo, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Intelligence Integration, in the Oval Office, Jan. 31, 2012. Part of the briefing was done using a tablet computer. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Search error: Feds pay for data they could have just Googled, audit finds

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Feds may run out of money to cover faltering pension plans within 15 years

By Brad Kalbfeld - Washington Guardian

FDA isn’t able to monitor all dangers from dietary supplements

By Phillip Swarts - Washington Guardian

The Pentagon. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Pentagon has spent billions on doomed programs; cash looms large with budget cuts

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

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Bruce Ivans attached this photo to an e-mail he sent in November 2001 saying he was working with "cultures of the 'Ames' strain of Bacillus anthracis." The Justice Department said the FBI is working to conclude the investigation into the fatal anthrax attacks that year.

Redundant federal inspections of labs working with anthrax wasting tax dollars

By Phillip Swarts - Washington Guardian

Top Obama appointees make $100K more than average worker

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. (left), accompanied by FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, announces on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011, in Washington that two men have been charged in an alleged plot directed by elements of the Iranian government to murder the Saudi ambassador to the United States. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

FBI jets for war on terror used for top officials’ personal, business travel

By John Solomon - Washington Guardian

**FILE** A Planned Parenthood clinic in Overland Park, Kan., is seen on June 22, 2011. (Associated Press)

Gov’t watchdog asked to look again at Planned Parenthood finances

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

**FILE** A Planned Parenthood clinic in Overland Park, Kan., is seen on June 22, 2011. (Associated Press)

Lawmakers ask if taxes fund abortion; Planned Parenthood targeted in inquiry

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

VA Secretary-designate Eric K. Shinseki will have to seek out new solutions for the health problems of an ever-growing population of veterans.

VA adds staff to hasten Md. claims processing

Associated Press

The dome of the Capitol is reflected in a skylight of the Capitol Visitor's Center in Washington on Jan. 1, 2013. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

GAO’s review of high-risk government programs includes many repeat offenders

By Phillip Swarts - Washington Guardian

**FILE** Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski (Associated Press)

While advising the public on cybersecurity, FCC failed on its own defenses

By Phillip Swarts - Washington Guardian