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19 Mar 2009, 8:28 am
The USA Government Accountability Office (GAO) has discovered that it is alarmingly easy to get a US passport using forged documents.GAO conducted four tests simulating this approach and was successful in obtaining a genuine U.S. passport in each case. [read post]
12 Mar 2009, 9:14 am by Dean C. Rowan
While the amounts spent by the federal government on different programs may be reported, and the progress of the recovery can be observed, much less is known about the process that initiates all of this activity. [read post]
6 Mar 2009, 8:31 am
Witnesses testifying at the hearing included representatives from the: Natural Resources and Environment, Government Accountability Office (GAO); Climate Action Reserve; Federal Global Warming Program Director, Environment America; Manager of Business Development, Environmental Products, Shell Energy North America; Forest Carbon Dialogue; and Stanford Law School. [read post]
4 Mar 2009, 8:49 am
The Government Accountability Office says the U.S. has failed to determine how many of the thousands of people deported were the kind of violent felons it was devised to root out. [read post]
23 Feb 2009, 1:07 pm by David A. Barrett, Esq.
However, I should have used the search function on hashtag.com to check before creating the hashtag, as another Twitter user had already used “#gao” in an unrelated way when tweeting about the Government Accounting Office (and their reports on the lack of paid health care benefits for U.S. [read post]
23 Feb 2009, 5:12 am
 With regard to the government spending provisions (Division A of the Act, which appropriates approximately $520 Billion), the U.S. [read post]
30 Jan 2009, 7:06 am
Just 2 weeks ago, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report of federal agencies that were in need of major improvement. [read post]
29 Jan 2009, 2:44 pm
That oversight began in response to a whistleblower that came to my office complaining that SEC supervisors were impeding an investigation into a major hedge fund. [read post]
18 Jan 2009, 5:55 pm
  In the first post, Professor Caron reports that a General Accountability Office (GAO)  study indicates  that more than 2/3rds of America’s largest corporations have subsidiaries in foreign countries with low tax rates and opaque information disclosure  laws: Eighty-three of the 100 largest publicly traded U.S. corporations in terms of 2007 revenue reported having subsidiaries in jurisdictions listed as… [read post]
18 Jan 2009, 3:00 am
The Government Accountability Office on Friday released a study reporting that 83 of the 100 largest publicly-traded corporations and 63 of the 100 largest federal contractors maintain offshore subsidiaries in 50 tax havens. [read post]
7 Jan 2009, 1:35 pm
In its 2008 report on the Government’s financial consolidated statements released on December 15, the Government Accountability Office criticized “serious financial management problems at the Department of Defense, the federal government’s inability to adequately account for and reconcile intragovernmental activity and balances between federal agencies, and the federal government’s ineffective… [read post]