Intelligence
Collection authorities, FISA process, inspector-general findings, and the gap between the briefing and the footnote.
Official contradiction
NNSA life-extension footnotes show cost growth rarely voiced in testimony
Public budget justifications for National Nuclear Security Administration warhead life-extension programs carry footnotes on contingency, “to-go” work and schedule risk that sit uneasily beside oral assurances to Congress that programs remain on baseline. The gap is visible in documents already on the record.
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
- NNSA life-extension footnotes show cost growth rarely voiced in testimony
- Inspectors general flag overclassification as intelligence agencies deny most FOIA requests
- ODNI unmasking counts and White House briefings on U.S. person identities
- NRO unclassified justifications show rising commercial satellite imagery and communications buys
- CBP task orders for Flock ALPR feeds outpace published privacy assessments
- Inspector General reports flag FBI gaps in National Security Letter gag reviews
- Pentagon cost-plus IDIQ awards leave follow-on task orders in the primes’ own language
- FDA advisory recusals and the consultants who still shape drug votes
- Dark-money 501(c)(4) filings and ads around FISA reauthorization votes
- DHS fusion centers tap GSA schedules for commercial data-broker feeds
- Defense contractor PACs and reported bundling around NDAA markup, according to FEC records
- Pentagon ethics waivers ease revolving-door limits on hires from major primes
- GAO reviews Pentagon other-transaction awards concentrated among traditional primes
- ODNI 702 query totals sit beside FBI hearing accounts of targeted use