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More on the Foreclosure Scandal and the Mortgage Machine
The recent furor over foreclosure documentation brings fresh scrutiny to a complicated process, and to a little-known company tasked with keeping track of more than 60 million American home mortgages.
Dafna Linzer Discusses Judge’s Extraordinary Gitmo Rulings
Senior reporter Dafna Linzer will be a guest on "Democracy Now!" to explain how a federal judge's ruling in a Guantanamo detainee case was accidentally made public.
Dafna Linzer Discusses Judge’s Extraordinary Gitmo Rulings
Senior reporter Dafna Linzer will be a guest on "Democracy Now!" to explain how a federal judge's ruling in a Guantanamo detainee case was accidentally made public.
Feds Investigate Allegations of Corruption and Misspending by California National Guard
Federal authorities have launched an investigation into possible corruption and $100 million in payments by the California National Guard alleged to have been improper, according to a Sacramento Bee investigation.
Frontline and ProPublica Detail BP’s Corporate Culture in ‘The Spill’
See the promo for The Spill a documentary from ProPublica and Frontline
A Tale of Two Documents
On Oct. 8, we published an interactive comparing separate versions of the same court opinion in a lawsuit brought by a Gitmo detainee. Here's how we did it.
DOJ’s Troubled Case Against Uthman
Evidence of terrorism ties hinged to witnesses who have been tortured, deemed incompetent weaken the government's case against Uthman.
Oil Spill Commission Hits Feds on Flow Rate, Dispersant, How Much Oil Is Left
The presidential commission investigating BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster found that a number of public failures undermined public confidence in the federal government.
Q&A: Putting the Foreclosure Paperwork Scandal in Perspective
Robo-signing’s just small component of a larger mess made by servicers, according to consumer advocates and attorneys for homeowners. One expert explains how the process should’ve looked.
Exclusion of Coercion-Tainted Evidence Echoes Other Gitmo Cases
A federal judge's decision Wednesday -- excluding key evidence from the first civilian trial of a Guantanamo detainee -- is the latest, and perhaps most significant, in a series of government losses in Gitmo-related cases that relied on evidence gained during coercive interrogations.
Gov’t Report: 66 Struggling Banks Got Bailout Money Through 'Healthy' Bank Program
Despite getting government funds, many banks that barely qualified for bailout funds are still struggling to survive, according to a recent government watchdog report.
Gulf Compensation Czar Says Claims Will No Longer Face Geographic Test
A decision by Kenneth Feinberg, the Gulf compensation czar, to no longer consider proximity to the spill in claims eligibility is particularly beneficial to hotels and restaurants in southern Florida that claimed a decline in tourism, though oil never arrived on their beaches
