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Military sorts through material from Iraq drawdown

Twila Gonzales, director of disposition services at Defense Logistics Agency, explains how the military decides what it should keep and what it should destroy from the material brought out of Iraq.

Tags: Twila Gonzales , Defense Logistics Agency , DoD , Iraq , Federal Drive

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Obama fills key posts in State, Energy

President Obama said he intends to nominate key posts in the departments of State and Energy, according to a White House release.

Tags: Arum Majumdar , Frederick Barton , Energy , appointments , Barack Obama

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23 of 24 agencies get financial audit opinions

For the first time in 20 years, audits reviewed and gave an opinion for every civilian agency. Only DoD doesn't have a qualified or clean audit opinion.

Tags: financial management , OMB , Danny Werfel , DoD , NASA , DHS , clean audits , Jason Miller

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Three agencies make top 10 places to work for young people

Tom Shoop, editor-in-chief of Gov Exec, explains why these agencies are so appealing.

Tags: Tom Shoop , Government Executive , CIA , FBI , In Depth , workforce

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Everybody's got a price. What's yours?

Would you take a buyout if the boss offered you one? You might want to decide now because if and when an offer comes, it won't be on the table very long, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.

Tags: Mike Causey , Federal Report , pay and benefits , early retirement , buyouts , early-outs , SSA , IRS , DoD , VERA , VSIP

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Out in the Cold: Intel agent says U.S. betrayed her

An Italian judge found 23 Americans and two Italians guilty in the kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect, delivering the first legal convictions anywhere in the world against people involved in the CIA's extraordinary renditions program.

Tags: security , Sabrina De Sousa , extraordinary rendition , CIA

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Federal Workers and Help for Haiti: Past, Present & Future

What's important now, is that, even as the United States renders extraordinary emergency assistance, we begin working on our Haitian-exit strategy. Haiti deserves more than a future where it survives, forever tied to U.S. apron strings, living from dole to dole.

Tags: columns , Lurita Doan , Haiti , DHS , HHS , Defense , FAA

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TSA and government execution risks

TSA's mishandling and misuse of backscatter technologies will have damaging effects, both on individuals and on our country's economic viability.

Tags: Lurita Doan , TSA , DHS , Christmas bomber , Passport Information Electronic System , backscatter , technology , NII , Al Qaeda

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Hiding Problems at Federal Agencies

The federal government has developed a disturbing practice of cleverly hiding information.

Tags: Lurita Doan , Barack Obama , CBP , San Ysidro Port of entry , Jayson Ahern , GSA , Defense , DoD , contracting , SIGAR , Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstr , Susan Collins , Claire McCaskill , Tom Coburn , Education , Dick Durbin , NTEU , EPA , Energy , Commerce , Carol Browner , OPM , TSA , SBA , stimulus , small business , Treasury , Freddie Mac , Fannie Mae

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Agencies to set own human capital PMA goals

Federal management to remain priority in next administration

Tags: OPM , OMB , management , Transportation , Michael Hager , Doug Holtz-Eakin , VA , Corps of Engineers , Clay Johnson , Neera Tanden , human capital

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