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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.

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  • Veterans Affairs bureaucrats shuffle paper as dying Marine grows weaker

    Mark Flatten

    Updated: Tue, Mar 12, 2013

    A Marine veteran dying of cancer is stuck in limbo as the Department of Veterans Affairs mulls his claim for disability benefits, even though his condition is recognized by law as connected to his service. Juan Santiago, 61, has a terminal cancer known as multiple myeloma. Congress approved...

  • Congressmen demand investigation of EPA selectively blocking FOIAs

    Mark Flatten

    Published: Thu, Mar 7, 2013

    An internal email that appears to counsel Environmental Protection Agency officials on delaying or obstructing inconvenient Freedom of Information Act requests has sparked congressional demands for an investigation. Senators David Vitter, R-LA, and Charles Grassley, R-IA, and Rep. Darrell...

  • Watchdog: VA puts vets private info at risk, IG reports

    Mark Flatten

    Published: Thu, Mar 7, 2013

    Private information for thousands of veterans, including their Social Security numbers, birth dates and health records, was transmitted unencrypted over an Internet-accessible network by the Department of Veterans Affairs, according to a government report released today. The findings by the...

  • Vets don't have to worry about sequestration cuts at VA

    Mark Flatten

    Updated: Wed, Mar 6, 2013

    Those who rely on the Department of Veterans Affairs for medical care, disability benefits or educational assistance will be spared whatever pain eventually comes from sequestration because the agency is exempt from the automatic budget reductions, the chairman of the House veterans committee...

  • Chicken Little feds ignored IG ideas for savings worth $67 billion last year

    Mark Flatten

    Updated: Tue, Mar 5, 2013

    Officials who claim automatic sequestration spending reductions will slash the federal budget to the bone could have instead heeded suggestions last year from government watchdogs that would have saved more than $67 billion, according to a congressional report released today. Inspectors...

  • Watchdog: Veterans group skeptical of VA claims progress

    Mark Flatten

    Updated: Thu, Feb 28, 2013

    Veterans groups expressed skepticism Thursday that the Department of Veterans Affairs will meet its pledge to break its backlog of disability and pension claims by 2015. During testimony before a joint hearing of the House and Senate veterans committees, representatives of several service...

  • Bipartisan agreement on VA firings needed to speed up vets claims processing

    Mark Flatten

    Published: Tue, Feb 26, 2013

    Chronically poor-performing managers and claims processors at the Department of Veterans Affairs should be fired to insure accountability and encourage elimination of a nagging backlog of disability and pension cases, the Republican chairman and ranking Democrat of the House Committee on...


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