Watchdogs
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Social Security mistakenly reported more than 12,000 Americans as dead in 2025, and fumbled fixes
In at least one percent of the errant cases, the agency didn’t even restore Social Security benefits to the still-living living citizens.
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Watchdogs fight to expose FBI payments to social media, 'sweeping' search warrant for Trump ally
FBI repeatedly admitted paying Twitter, other private entities for decades, so it can't assert a wholesale FOIA exemption for law enforcement ops, civil liberties group tells court. Michael Caputo gingerly petitions Judge Boasberg.
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Comer threatens to strip watchdog council's authority over IG misconduct probes
The chairman of the House Oversight Committee has threatened to remove power from an agency tasked with overseeing government watchdogs due to systemic failures.
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Feds hide anti-white discrimination complaints, names of policy architects from FOIA suits
EEOC won't release its own employees' complaints against the workplace discrimination watchdog, to protect them from "embarrassment, say former Trump Education Department lawyer Hans Bader.
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Watchdog sounds alarm about military health system shortages
The average wait time for a urology appointment in-network in Hawaii is 67 days while a psychiatry appointment has an average of 52 days wait time, per the report.
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Power plant construction in U.S. Baghdad embassy was over budget, violated federal rules: watchdog
The multimillion dollar construction of the power plant at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq has come under scrutiny by the State Department's inspector general at a time when the U.S. presence in Iraq is being threatened by renewed anti-American sentiment.
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Liberal 'dark money' groups gave millions to SCOTUS watchdogs targeting Alito, Thomas, docs show
Arabella Advisors, which spent more than $1 billion last year on liberal causes, is currently being investigated by the D.C., attorney general.
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State Department won't work with US government's Afghanistan watchdog, inspector general says
"The State Department has basically obfuscated, delayed reports … ordered their employees not to talk to us," Sopko said.
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U.S. watchdogs warn of dangers of aid to Hamas-controlled Gaza, detail how Taliban diverted money
The USAID inspector general has warned of the possibility of U.S. humanitarian aid to Gaza being diverted to benefit Hamas. This is a long-running problem, especially in light of past U.S. aid diverted to the Taliban in Afghanistan, through the creation of fraudulent NGOs and co-opting UN facilities by force.
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'Zero tolerance': Unchecked harassment of Jews prompts financial threats against elite colleges
Georgetown suspends new academic hire, says it didn't know of her years of antisemitic comments. Online traces disappearing for Harvard students reported to FBI for alleged assault of Jewish peer.
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Jim Jordan demands Big Tech turn over records of 'unacceptable' DOJ surveillance targeting Congress
Demands come after Just the News revealed Republican and Democrat congressional staff were notified their phone records taken five years ago.
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Emails show how feds coalesced around Russia, QAnon to dismiss Hunter Biden laptop
FOIA revelations and new litigation give ammunition to GOP lawmakers' efforts to rein in Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
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DHS cybersecurity agency immediately flagged Hunter Biden laptop story: emails
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency shared New York Post report internally same day it was published. "CISA makes the 'Disinformation Governance Board' look tame," House Judiciary GOP says.