Intelligence
Collection authorities, FISA process, inspector-general findings, and the gap between the briefing and the footnote.
Procurement
FAA NextGen task orders versus DOT inspector general modernization findings
Public DOT Office of Inspector General audits have for years described NextGen as behind schedule and short of promised capabilities, even as FAA budget justifications and contractor task orders continued to fund incremental work. The record shows a gap between obligated modernization dollars and operational delivery as auditors described it.
Coverage
Procurement
IDIQ vehicles, other-transaction authority, cost-plus forever, and the primes who write the requirements they then bid.
Regulatory capture
Comment dockets, advisory committees, and the quiet rewrite of rules after the hearing ends.
Classified programs
Black-budget lines, special-access language, and what can still be said from the unclassified wrap.
Money in politics
PACs, dark-money 501s, contractor bundling, and the donor who already has the contract.
Surveillance & doors
Authorities that sunset on paper, revolving-door waivers, pharma and defense alumni at the table.
Archive
- FAA NextGen task orders versus DOT inspector general modernization findings
- FinCEN’s beneficial-ownership rule and GAO’s AML record remain on separate tracks
- EPA TSCA risk dockets advance while SAB conflict waivers remain on file
- Pentagon ethics waivers continue as OGE cooling-off tallies stay thin
- DHS fusion-center grants continue as GAO finds uneven information sharing
- IRS private-collection awards keep flowing as TIGTA flags taxpayer-rights gaps
- BARDA other-transaction awards and GAO findings on pandemic procurement
- FBI NGI face contracts grew as GAO cited untested error rates
- OFAC licenses and GAO findings diverge on how U.S. sanctions are actually enforced
- CMS RADV recoveries trail inspector general estimates of Medicare Advantage overpayments
- CBP biometric-exit task orders and the DHS privacy assessments that trail them
- GSA OASIS IDIQ Awards Face GAO Protests Over Prime-Written Requirements
- Pentagon other-transaction software awards expand as GAO reports cite gaps in competition and follow-on oversight
- FARA prosecutions climb while inspector general audits still cite thin inspections and incomplete filings
- NSA 12333 targeting rules sit largely outside ODNI statistical tallies
- DEA administrative subpoenas and DOJ inspector general findings on controlled-substance diversion
- NASA cost-plus primes and the OIG paper trail on overruns
- FISC annual tallies show scant Section 215 activity as FBI FISA use shifted after 2015 and 2020
- FISC amici and ODNI’s 702 tallies still talk past each other
- ICE detention IDIQ awards and the DHS inspector general’s inspection record