A new Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction audit shows that Pasadena-based contractor Parsons got $142 million in Pentagon cash for work it didn't do. Parsons was supposed to build a prison in the Diyala province as well as border patrol and courthouse stations.

But as the Washington Post's Dana ...

The Washington Post's Dana Hedgpeth reports that both investigations into Stuart Bowen, the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, are now closed. Federal prosecutors and the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency, which is essentially a group of inspectors general policing other inspectors general, had been investigating Bowen for ...

Three months after a Congressional deadline—and more than six years after the war started—the White House has appointed an inspector general for Afghanistan. The Washington Post’s Karen DeYoung reports that, pending Senate confirmation, Maj. Gen. Arnold Fields were be in charge of rooting out ...

The Pentagon lacks the resources to police all its resources, concludes the Pentagon’s inspector general. The Wall Street Journal’s Yochi J. Dreazen reports that defense spending has nearly doubled from 2000 to 2007—from about $300 billion to $600 billion. Yet the number of officers who oversee contracts rewarded ...

The Washington Post’s Carol D. Leonnig details a troubling audit by the Interior Dept’s inspector general on unsafe parks, dams, schools and fish hatcheries. For example, there could be dangerous levels of carbon monoxide around a Yosemite Park tunnel. Thirteen schools ...

After $20 billion of Pentagon money, the 530,000 paid Iraq security forces are still years away from bringing security to Iraq.  USA Today’s Matt Kelley drew this information from the Special Inspector General of Iraq’s quarterly progress report on reconstruction. The reports finds that while 530,000 forces are on the ...

In a follow-up to yesterday’s investigative blockbuster, the New York Times's C.J.Chivers reports that Efraim E. Diveroli, the 22 year-old head of AEY Inc., could face criminal fraud charges. The charges stem from selling 28 pallets of ammo manufactured in China to the ...

Two Inspector General reports -- from the Justice Department and the Director of National Intelligence -- conclude that the process for nominating people (including thousands of Americans) to the National Counterterrorism Center’s “terrorist watch list” is inconsistent and varies across intelligence agencies.

The ...

David Walker, the head of the Government Accountability Office, is stepping down this week.  Under Walker, the GAO has released authoritative reports on Iraq reconstruction, FEMА, the FDA, Homeland Security, and many more agencies.  Walker, the subject of a profile by ...

The FBI is having trouble paying its phone bills -- including for lines used to eavesdrop on suspected terrorists and other criminals, Dan Eggen reports in the Washington Post.  Justice Dept. Inspector General Glenn Fine announced the foul up as part of a larger investigation of "chronic financial and inventory ...