The Pentagon's $60 Billion Accounting Error
In May 2024, Pentagon accountants discovered they had miscalculated the value of weapons sent to Ukraine by $6.2 billion—meaning they could send billions more without new Congressional approval. What ...
2 Jun 13min
The Judge Who Couldn't Say No
In 1978, a single federal judge in Alabama became the de facto administrator of the entire state prison system—and held that power for nearly four decades. How Chief Judge Frank Johnson's contempt cit...
31 Mai 17min
The Midnight Memo That Broke FEMA
In 2005, a single bureaucratic decision made 72 hours before Katrina's landfall turned a disaster response into a disaster itself. We trace how one lawyer's memo about federal authority created a coor...
30 Mai 17min
The Revolving Door's Last Stop
When a mid-level FDA regulator quietly rewrote drug approval guidelines three weeks before joining a pharmaceutical company, it exposed how the revolving door between government and industry actually ...
29 Mai 16min
The Janitor's Key to the Pentagon
How a routine background check delay for a civilian contractor in 2013 accidentally exposed that the Defense Department had been operating a massive off-books surveillance program without Congressiona...
28 Mai 15min
The Paper Trail That Broke the Banks
In 2008, everyone knew the banks were too big to fail. What they didn't know was that a single federal regulator had been quietly documenting exactly how reckless they'd become—and why her warnings we...
27 Mai 21min
The Drone Papers
How a 27-year-old Air Force analyst leaked America's most classified drone program documents, and why the Pentagon's response revealed more about the kill list process than the leaks themselves. We tr...
26 Mai 14min
