Watchdog Team
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NASA chief failed to tell Congress of 118 Chinese nationals working in IT
Richard Pollock
Updated: Mon, Mar 25, 2013
NASA employs 118 Chinese nationals in "remotely-based" information technology jobs that may enable them to penetrate the space agency's national security database servers, The Washington Examiner has learned. But NASA administrator Charles Bolden said nothing about these individuals during his...
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FBI investigating multiple NASA centers to counter growing space espionage threat
Richard Pollock
Published: Wed, Mar 20, 2013
Federal law enforcement officials are mounting anti-espionage investigations at multiple NASA facilities to counter what FBI Director Robert Mueller believes is a growing threat against U.S. space technology. "If anything, I would say that the threat is - is more substantial than perhaps it...
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WATCHDOG ALERT: FBI arrests NASA contractor employee trying to flee to China
Richard Pollock
Published: Mon, Mar 18, 2013
Bo Jiang, the Chinese national scientist employed by a NASA contractor for work at the space agency's Langley Research Center, was arrested Sunday by the FBI at Dulles Airport as he tried to board a one-way flight to China, according to Rep. Frank Wolf. The Virginia Republican is holding a...
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DEA clams up on status of three agents in Colombia prostitution scandal
Richard Pollock
Published: Mon, Mar 18, 2013
Drug Enforcement Agency officials are refusing to answer questions today about why three DEA officers involved in the Cartagena, Colombia, prostitution scandal are still on the federal payroll. On Friday, DEA spokesman Lawrence R. Payne told The Washington Examiner that "this matter is...
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Congressman names employee he claims took NASA documents to China
Richard Pollock
Published: Wed, Mar 13, 2013
Rep. Frank Wolf made public today the identity of a Chinese national employed by a NASA contractor in a position that gave the man extensive access" to the Langley Research Center. The Virginia Republican told a congressional hearing that Bo Jiang took "voluminous NASA documents" to his home...
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NASA mum on Chinese national once slated to attend classified Langley meeting
Richard Pollock
Published: Wed, Mar 13, 2013
A Sunshine Week mystery shrouds the identity of a Chinese national who had planned to attend a classified March 12-14 meeting at NASA's Langley Research Center even though doing so would have violated U.S. law, according to Rep. Frank Wolf. NASA and other federal officials refused to identify...
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SUNSHINE WEEK: Issa, Cummings introduce bipartisan FOIA reform
Richard Pollock
Published: Tue, Mar 12, 2013
In a rare-for-Congress show of bi-partisanship, the top Republican and Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today introduced new draft legislation designed the strengthen the federal Freedom of Information Act. The FOIA, signed into law in 1966 by President Lyndon...
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Wolf says NASA prompted hiring of person linked to Chinese espionage; may be dozens more in agency
Richard Pollock
Updated: Thu, Mar 7, 2013
Officials at NASA's Langely Research Center permitted a contractor to hire a Chinese national affiliated with an organization designated by U.S. national security agencies as an "entity of concern," and then allowed the individual access to classified information, according to Rep. Frank Wolf....
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U.S. gave troubled Florida firm $129 million for new Ohio Obamacare health insurance cooperative
Richard Pollock
Published: Tue, Mar 5, 2013
Federal officials gave $129 million to a Florida firm with a checkered past to establish an Obamacare cooperative in Ohio, The Washington Examiner has learned. St. Petersburg-based Community Health Solutions of America was selected last October by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
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Wolf reminds NASA federal funds can't be used to host Chinese officials
Richard Pollock
Published: Mon, Mar 4, 2013
A key House space subcommittee chairman charged today that NASA officials will violate federal law if they host Chinese government officials as currently planned at one of the agency's major research centers. Rep. Frank Wolf's reminder to NASA that federal law bars hosting of Chinese officials...
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