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Grand jury issues subpoena to former Interior chief
October 13, 2009 A federal grand jury in Washington that is probing possible criminal conflicts of interest involving former Interior Secretary Gale Norton's official and private dealings in 2006 with Royal Dutch Shell has recently issued subpoenas to both Norton and Shell, according to two sources familiar with the investigation. The grand jury ...
Oversight body looks into complaints against State IG
October 22, 2007 FBI agents recently interviewed a former senior official at the State Department's Office of the Inspector General as part of a preliminary inquiry by a federal oversight group into charges that the department's IG, Howard Krongard, blocked investigations of suspected fraud and waste by contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan. Ralph ...
After Gonzales, Justice seeks to regain trust of employees
August 31, 2007 Depending on who is sizing him up, departing Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is either the Inspector Clouseau of the Bush administration -- a man who can't put one foot in front of the other without stumbling -- or a cunning political operative who does President Bush's bidding, no questions asked. ...
Inspectors general gain prominence with new Congress
May 14, 2007 Glenn Fine proved recently why he isn't likely to win any popularity contests at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. As the inspector general at the Justice Department, he fired a broadside on March 9 that blasted the FBI for "serious misuse" of national security letters, one of the Bush administration's ...
Law, PR firms help contractors navigate reconstruction inquiries
March 8, 2007 From a Capitol Hill hearing room to a California courtroom last month, a disturbing picture came into focus: Billions of taxpayer dollars spent on Iraq reconstruction projects may have been squandered through mismanagement and fraud. At a February 7 hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, executives from ...
Probes take their toll on Iraq contractor
October 4, 2004 Even Pentagon auditors waved red flags about Halliburton early this year -- but they apparently went unheeded. On January 16, the Texas oil services giant won a $1.2 billion contract to help repair Iraq's devastated oil infrastructure. Three days before, the Defense Department's principal auditing agency had sent a memo ...
CIA Deaths
May 28, 2004 Five Americans employed by the Central Intelligence Agency have died in the war in Afghanistan, according to a former senior intelligence official. Sources indicate that no CIA personnel have died in Iraq. The CIA has publicly identified four of those killed in the Afghan conflict -- two staffers and two ...
Former Medicare chief soldiers on in wake of ethics investigations
April 9, 2004 If Thomas Scully was looking for a smooth transition to K Street when he stepped down in December as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to become a lobbyist and consultant, his wish has not been granted. Recent months have brought trying times for the former Medicare ...
Iraq-al Qaeda links weak, say former Bush officials
August 8, 2003 As criticism over the Bush administration's use of prewar intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction continues, a new wave of accusations seems ready to break-this time, over complaints that in its efforts to sell the war, the White House also hyped claims about the links between al Qaeda and ...
Lobbyists hustle for reconstruction business in Baghdad
August 7, 2003 Mike Baker, a former covert operations officer for the CIA, is preparing for a trip to Baghdad. Baker will be going to the Iraqi capital in late August not to run black-bag jobs, but to pitch the services of Diligence, his intelligence and security-consulting firm. Diligence is allied with lobbyist ...
