Word: oversights
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This means, like the well-protected Pentagon of 20 years ago, virtually no congressional oversight. Any lawmaker who raised concerns risked being flayed as soft on crime. But without accountability, several things happen, all of them bad. Money gets wasted. Officials get sloppy. Innocent people go to jail. And cases that should be won are lost. The specifics have become a martyrs' lament: Waco. Ruby Ridge. Filegate. Richard Jewell. By last Saturday, the embattled Freeh was ready to break his trademark silence in an interview with TIME. "They very regularly report the bumpy landings at National Airport. You rarely hear...
...Advisory Committee must recommend any changes in Loker to the decision-making Loker Oversight Committee...
Even if Clinton is telling the truth about being kept in the dark, his administration's lax policies in granting access to the White House and his oversight of those policies are nonetheless disturbing. Clinton is a shrewd, seasoned politician who has surrounded himself with competent aides, so it is difficult to believe that neither he nor members of his staff ever questioned whether the DNC's many donors and solicitors with ties to Southeast Asian interests might be working with ulterior motives...
...administration's most egregious campaign finance mistake was its failure to look into (or its willful oversight of) the ties to China of Ng Lag Seng and Charles Yah Lin Trie. Seng, who recently had his $15,000 DNC donation returned, formerly served on the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Because death has begun to look a lot more certain than taxes, the Clinton Administration is presenting a plan to rework the IRS by strengthening the oversight and management of the troubled agency. The IRS is under fire after admitting to misusing or wasting $400 million out of $3.3 billion spent on a computer modernization project since 1987. The computer troubles are increasingly frustrating and relevant -- just try logging on to the IRS website (www.irs.ustreas.gov) as tax time approaches. What's more, the agency is coming under increasing criticism from the General Accounting Office...