AP: Federal agencies flunk their audits
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Ten years after Congress ordered federal agencies to have outside auditors review their books, neither the Defense Department nor the newer Department of Homeland Security has met even basic accounting requirements, leaving them vulnerable to waste, fraud and abuse.
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Telecommunications companies have repeatedly cut off FBI access to wiretaps of alleged terrorists and criminal suspects because the bureau did not pay its phone bills, according to the results of an audit released yesterday.
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An internal FBI audit has found that the bureau potentially violated the law or agency rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data about domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions in recent years, far more than was documented in a Justice Department report in March that ignited...
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Four government auditors who monitor leases for oil and gas on federal property charge the Interior Department suppressed their efforts to recover millions of dollars from companies they said cheated the government, according to a published report.
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The FBI has a backlog of hundreds of thousands of hours of untranslated audio recordings from terrorism and espionage investigations, despite large increases in money and personnel for translations since the 2001 terror attacks, a Justice Department audit released Monday said.
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Unreliable test scores and other shaky data may be causing states to wrongly penalize some schools under federal law, congressional investigators have found.
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The pace of corporate audits by the Internal Revenue Service continued to decline in the first six months of fiscal 2004, despite IRS pledges to crack down on tax violators, an analysis of government data shows. The IRS differed with the findings.
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Unwary customers could suffer from supplements' lack of government scrutiny.
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Eye of Sauron poked after dodgy debrief Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials have been lambasted by Congressmen after apparently attempting to conceal technical problems and programme slippages.â¦
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The FBI's failure to roll out an expanded computer system that would help agents investigate criminals and terrorists is the latest in a series of costly technology blunders by government over more than a decade.
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The current passport mess is rare among government foul-ups: A top federal official has publicly taken the blame and expressed regret.
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The FBI does not have enough  translators to handle a growing backlog of documents and  intercepts in Arabic, Farsi, Urdu and Pashto, a federal audit  said on Monday, confirming criticism by U.S. elected officials  and experts.
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NASA's internal watchdog said Wednesday it is auditing the agency's handling of a survey on air safety that NASA shut down after it had spent $11.3 million and then withheld the results.
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The U.S. government has squandered millions of dollars intended for police training programs in Iraq because of rampant problems overseeing contractors, according to federal reviews released yesterday.
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Reform of neonatal units botched says inquiry by National Audit Office
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hasn't finished implementing most of the IT security improvements recommended by federal auditors after a laptop containing sensitive data was stolen from an employee's home in May 2006.
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The four biggest accounting firms misapplied some standards and failed to properly maintain records of some audits, the new US auditing regulator said today in its first inspection reports.