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May 22, 2013 | 08:06 PM
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Mark Flatten

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Mark Flatten is an award-winning investigative and political reporter for three Arizona newspapers. Among his many citations are the Arizona Newspaper Association's Freedom of Information Award in 2011, the Society of Professional Journalists' First Amendment Award in 2010, and the Arizona Press Club's Don Bolles Award for Investigative Journalism in 2005.

Contributions

  • Watchdog: House takes wait-and-see view of new VA claims backlog plan

    Mark Flatten

    Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

    Worries that the Department of Veterans Affairs is rigging numbers without fixing problems delaying thousands of disability claims for more than two years were vented today during a House Veterans Affairs Committee hearing. The hearing, titled "Expediting Claims or Exploiting Statistics?"...

  • Newly released docs show inconsistencies in FBI training manual censorship

    Mark Flatten

    Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

    Implying the Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization or that al Qaeda had links to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center were enough to have documents purged from FBI training manuals, according to newly released agency documents. Other training materials that were scrubbed from...



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