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 ...

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 ...

Is this a great country or what?  Come on -- buck up, people!  Every day there are indications that this government works and that the Republic may actually survive for a while yet.  I mean, where else but in America could you have a major investigation into the investigating arm of government?  If anyone else is doing it, I still say we do it better.