Intelligence File

One Bad Apple

What the Tucson shooting teaches us about the dangers of wrong intelligence.

Pay & Benefits

Cutting Benefits: Readers Bite Back

A sampling of responses to proposals to cut back on federal employee benefits.

Features

Flattening Government

Why rhetoric on killing agencies so seldom becomes reality.

Features

Weak Link

Drug cartels are working hard to corrupt federal agents and drive a hole through border security.

News

Soft Landing For Postmasters?

News

Sign of the Times?

News

From Nextgov.com: IRS said to fail to protect taxpayer information in emails

TIGTA says many messages unauthorized, either for taxpayers or revenue service employees.

Defense

Slippery-slope syndrome: With the CIA ‘finding,’ how deep is the U.S. wading into Libya’s civil war?

Experts say there is a long way to go toward full involvement.

Pay & Benefits

Watchdog praises VA for education on new GI bill

But the department needs to improve outreach to disabled vets, GAO says.

Oversight

Politics and FOIA combine for combustible mix at hearing

House Oversight Chairman Issa accuses DHS officials of employing ‘Nixonian enemies list’ in document review process.

News

The Week in Comments: Raising pay, shutting down and contracting, contracting, contracting

The best in reader reaction to recent articles.

Oversight

Former OSC Scott Bloch sentenced to one month in prison

Bloch had pleaded guilty last April to withholding information from Congress on allegations he hired a firm to wipe files from his work computer.

Oversight

With reauthorization in the air, Mica cuts up on FAA

Odds are high that an FAA deal will be done, despite dispute over union certification.

Oversight

Biden: Parties agree on figure for overall budget deal

House Republicans and Senate Democrats inch closer toward deal that would prevent government sutdown on April 8.

Pay & Benefits

All in the Family

OPM releases comprehensive guidance on FEHB coverage for dependents under age 26.

Defense

From Nextgov.com: Legacy of WikiLeaks scandal might be agency mistrust

Former national security officials worry that intragovernment cooperation against terrorism might dry up.

Defense

GAO: Most Pentagon weapons programs exceed cost estimates

The price tag of such programs has risen by $135 billion since 2008, and more than half of that resulted from poor management or execution problems, watchdog says.