by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jan 18, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H. Kushlis Also see Peter Van Buren "An Example of Petty Corruption and Cronyism at State", January 23, 2013. Van Buren worked on Congressional Relations for State's Bureau of Consular Affairs at the time of the passport fiasco. It wasn’t...
by Ian Platz | Jan 16, 2013 | Monitor
ASP Fellow Joshua Foust wrote for PBS Need to Know about the French military intervention in Mali. Over the weekend France launched an assault on northern Mali, part of an operation to unseat the extremists who have occupied half the country since last year’s coup....
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Nov 14, 2012 | Monitor
By Patricia H. Kushlis I understand that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) is investigating allegations of irregularities in the State Department's Bureau of Human Resources. For those of you not acquainted with the GAO please visit ...
by Daniel Painter | Aug 1, 2012 | Monitor
Yesterday, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released another report on the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), this time analyzing the NNSA’s reviews of budget estimates and decisions on resource trade-offs. GAO’s findings on NNSA budgeting...
by Daniel Painter | Jun 28, 2012 | Monitor
The GAO’s report of the testimony before the HASC’s Subcommittee on Strategic Forces for Modernizing the Nuclear Security Enterprise: Observations on the Organization and Management of the NNSA was released yesterday. The GAO found that while the NNSA has made...