The FBI raided the headquarters yesterday of the Office of Special Counsel, an independent federal agency that investigates political interference in the bureaucracy. The raid appears to be a dramatic next step in an Office of Personnel Management inspector general investigation into Scott Bloch, director of the watchdog agency. ...

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson told the Senate Banking Committee yesterday that he did not retaliate against Philadelphia Housing Director Carl Greene. Yesterday’s Washington Post suggested otherwise, reporting on e-mails from high-ranking HUD officials that discussed Green’s possible punishment for not rewarding Jackson’s friend a vacant lot in downtown Philly.

Things have gotten ugly in a scandal surrounding Housing and Urban Development’s threats to their Philadelphia housing director. Philadelphia lost $50 million in HUD dollars right after Philadelphia director Carl Greene refused to hand over a vacant city lot to the friend of HUD Secretary ...