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- OMB reworking financial system requirements to focus on outcomes, not inputs
- Hagel: Accountability breakdown a leading factor in sexual assaults
- PHOTOS: Meet the 2013 Service to America Medal Finalists
- Lew taps government retiree pension fund
- SBA starting new lending program for veterans
- More Obama aides knew of IRS audit; Obama not told
- Former IRS commissioner heads to Hill amid scandal
- Next-gen Apple devices cleared to join Defense IT networks
- In fight over intelligence IT system, Army prioritizes access to data
- DoD upends slow approval process for mobile devices
- Bonuses to senior execs under fire at GSA, other agencies
- VA's Gould moves the needle on many of VA's toughest challenges
- Tuesday federal headlines - May 21, 2013
Obama picks budget official to run troubled IRS
Obama picks senior White House budget official to run troubled IRS as 2nd top official leaves
89 charged in Medicare fraud busts in 8 cities
Nearly 100 people, including 14 doctors and nurses, were charged for their roles in separate Medicare scams that cost taxpayers millions of dollars.
Atty Gen orders probe into IRS targeting groups
Atty Gen Holder orders probe into IRS targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny
Charge disclosed in Cuban spying against US
Charge in Cuban spy case unsealed, accusing ex-State Dept. officer of conspiracy
Justice Dept. appeals recess case to Supreme Court
Obama administration asks Supreme Court to reverse ruling on president's recess appointments
AG Holder: No furloughs at Justice Department
Attorney General Eric Holder says he will not need to furlough any Justice Department employees in the current fiscal year.
FBI takes the lead in Boston probe
FBI takes charge in law enforcement probe of Boston Marathon explosions
Federal response to Boston bombings 'swift and substantial,' expert says
Bob Blitzer, former chief of the FBI's domestic Terrorism and Counterterrorism Planning Section, told the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Emily Kopp a substantial joint terrorism task force will draw on federal resources to investigate Monday's bombings in Boston.
GOP lawmakers blast Labor secretary nominee
GOP lawmakers blast Labor nominee over deal he brokered as top Justice official
AG Holder delaying furlough decisions to mid-April
Attorney General Eric Holder says he isn't making a decision on whether to furlough Justice Department employees until mid-April.
Federal defenders face deep cuts, delays in cases
The lawyers who defend the nation's poor in federal courts across the country are grappling with budget cuts they say will decimate their offices, delay criminal cases and jeopardize the fairness of the criminal justice system.
Holder averts furloughs of prison staffers
Attorney General Eric Holder says he has averted daily furloughs of 3,570 federal prison staffers around the country, moving $150 million from other Justice Department accounts to stave off a serious threat to the lives and safety of correctional staff, inmates and the public.
Justice: Email snooping law no longer makes sense
The Justice Department on Tuesday dropped its support for a controversial provision in a federal law that allows police to review some private emails without a warrant, but it asked Congress to expand its surveillance powers in other ways.
AP source: Obama poised to pick Perez for Labor
AP source: Obama poised to nominate Justice Dept. civil rights official to head Dept. of Labor
Drugs, the department of justice and immigration
On this week's Capital Impact show, Bloomberg Government analysts will discuss health care fraud, sequestration, and immigration reform.
March 7, 2013
As agencies come to terms with cloud security, another barrier emerges
FedRAMP and other initiatives are helping CIOs become more comfortable with securing data and applications in the cloud. But changing the way agencies buy, manage and oversee technology is a bigger roadblock in moving systems to the cloud.
The ATF and gun dealer regulation
Fred Schulte, investigative reporter for the Center for Public Integrity will discuss an article he's written on the ATF's inability to close down firearms dealers who are violating gun laws.
February 8, 2013
Congress grapples with gap on scofflaw contractors
With thousands of civilian contractors remaining in Iraq and Afghanistan, Justice Department officials want Congress to resolve a legal issue that they say obstructs efforts to prosecute any such workers who rape, kill or commit other serious crimes abroad.
Top Justice prosecutor Breuer quits
The head of the Justice Department's criminal division defended his record on a pair of the defining issues of his four-year tenure -- the absence of prosecutions against Wall Street executives and his conduct in the controversy over a botched arms-trafficking investigation in Arizona.
Justice: Progress in Fast and Furious negotiations
The U.S. Justice Department reports progress in settlement talks over a lawsuit by a House committee to get records involving the bungled gun-tracking program known as Operation Fast and Furious.
