Informant in tiny nation toppled decades of banking secrecy
How well do popular drugs work?
Here at Real Time we are beginning to dig into examples of secret data--data the government collects, that could affect our health and safety, but we, the public, can't see.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is a treasure house of data on the safety and efficacy of prescription drugs. Before a drug company can market a product in this country, it must first submit a plan to test the drug. Agency scientists review and analyze the results once they are submitted. Yet it's not always easy to get your hands on this information.
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Rangel releases do-over financial disclosure
When it comes to financial disclosure, the second time, apparently, is the charm for House Ways and Means chairman Charles Rangel. Real Time reported last February 28 separate instances in which Rangel had failed to disclose his ownership, purchase or sale of assets stretching back to 1979; CQ reports today that Rangel has filed an amended financial disclosure form that includes "hundreds of thousands of dollars in previously unreported assets":
Among the new items on Rangel's amended 2007 financial disclosure report were an account at the Congressional Federal Credit Union worth at least $250,000, land in southern New ...Continue reading
Raising Their Ugland House: Cayman Islands Lobbies to Keep Haven Safe
Opening the Window on Foreign Lobbying
Bush DOJ emails: “30% approval makes it a lot harder to push back, unfortunately.”
Adding it up: The Top Players in Foreign Agent Lobbying
The $333 Million Grant That Wasn’t
To understand how maddeningly inaccurate data on USAspending.gov can be, one need look no further than the $333 million grant that was awarded last year to Dynamic Research Inc. of Torrance, Calif., by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
In fact, a Dynamic Research employee told us, the vehicle R-and-D firm is not expecting a third of a billion dollars from NHTSA. The grant is more like $1 million for research on advanced crash-avoidance technology. But the casual user of USAspending.gov, maintained by the Office of Management and Budget, would have no way of knowing this.
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