Organizer of costly GSA conference held in Las Vegas leaves agency
(J. Scott Applewhite / AP)
Jeffrey E. Neely, the embattled General Services Administration regional commissioner who planned a lavish employee conference in Las Vegas that cost more than $800,000, left the agency Thursday
TSP discloses hacking of accounts
More than 120,000 federal employees and other account holders in the Thrift Savings Plan had personal information including Social Security numbers accessed last year in a “sophisticated cyber attack,” the TSP announced Friday morning.
Jeffrey Neely leaves GSA; was organizer of Las Vegas conference
Jeffrey E. Neely, the regional GSA commissioner who organized a notorious $823,000 Las Vegas employee conference, was on administrative leave.
Supreme Court makes Web site more mobile-friendly
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Huston’s ‘Let there be light’ available online through August
John Huston’s documentary on combat stress in World War II has been restored and put on the web.
ACLU throws support behind State Department whistleblower
Peter Van Buren, a foreign service officer who wrote an unflattering book about his year leading reconstruction teams in Iraq, has received the support of the American Civil Liberties Union in his effort to keep his job
Not everyone is comfortable reporting unethical behavior, survey indicates
COLUMN | About 45 percent of Secret Service workers would fear reprisal, and that’s too high.
Senators don’t believe Secret Service scandal was a one-time fling
Questions reflect a persistent concern: Instead of an aberration, does Cartagena indicate a culture of loose living by agents on the road?
Secret Service director to defend agency and outline code of conduct
Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan will testify before Congress on Wednesday about his agency’s response to the Colombian prostitution scandal.
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In the Loop: Pot, kettle
In the Loop’s roundup: Jay Carney’s ‘sloth’ accusation comes back to haunt him; the GSA conference planner makes an exit; why Secret Service workers won’t speak up.
Background Check: Richard Cordray
In the Loop’s new feature debuts with a conversation with Richard Cordray, who’s President Obama’s consumer czar (and does not play Kenneth on “30 Rock”).
Experts give odds to Edwards on appeal
Legal experts contend that questions about murky campaign finance laws could offer John Edwards a good chance of winning an appeal if he is convicted.
The Influence Industry: Georgian power struggle becomes D.C. lobbying battle
A Georgian billionaire brings his political campaign to Washington, hiring a half-dozen major lobbying firms ahead of parliamentary elections in October.
Many top Obama fundraisers are gay
The controversy that has erupted this week over his stance on same-sex marriage highlights the gay community’s importance to his re-election fundraising.
Congress favors status quo in funding itself
IN SESSION | The Capitol Police and auditors at the GAO would fare well under the House funding bill, while a project to restore the Capitol Dome would take a hit.
No slogan necessary?
The last three minority parties to seize control of the House had platforms to rally around and an opposing-party president in the White House.
Where will Romney find his vice president? Probably on the Hill
Members of Congress have a hard time being elected president, but the No. 2 job tends to come more easily.
Justices pressured to revisit Citizens United
HIGH COURT | In upholding a 100-year-old state law, the Montana justices seemed to be openly defying Citizens United’s holding that the First Amendment grants corporations, and by extension labor unions, the right to spend unlimited amounts of their treasuries to support or oppose candidates.
Maryland, Virginia and the court that divides them
Maryland’s Democratic attorney general and Virginia’s Republican are at times on opposite sides at the Supreme Court.
Divining Congress’s intent
In its efforts to determine Congress’s intent when it passed a piece of legislation, the Supreme Court may turn to the legislative history of an act, but only with trepidation.
Nuclear weapons just don’t make sense
Nuclear weapons are terror weapons, and basically unusable.That’s one reason why no rational strategy has ever been developed to justify them. Events in the past 10 days make my case.
Retired Gen. James Cartwright offers a fresh view on defense
Former Joint Chiefs of Staff vice chair spoke frankly about defense spending, and hopefully the Senate Armed Services Committee will listen.
Is U.S. going above and beyond for Israel?
The United States is spending a lot of money to help Israel with its Iron Dome missile defense system, but should we?
The Federal Buzz
Are you doing your dream job?
Are you doing the job you dreamed of having when you were fresh out of school? If you’re not in your dream job, then what’s the plan to get it?
The fragile health of government HR
The federal government’s human resources community is like the proverbial shoemaker’s children.
Federal Player
Ensuring delivery of sensitive diplomatic materials
Shane Morris played a crucial behind-the-scenes role for the State Department during the Arab Spring uprisings in 2011, ensuring that U.S. embassies were able to dispatch and receive critical classified documents and equipment to fully carry out their diplomatic missions.
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