| | | | July 27, 2011 | | Congress: ATF Let Guns Walk | |  Share on Facebook |  Share on Twitter | |  This week, a House and Senate joint committee investigating the so-called Fast and Furious gun operation along the Mexican border released a report damning the scheme. It includes a detailed list of weapons that fell into the wrong hands in Mexico. “So far, the Justice Department has provided documents that reference at least 48 separate recoveries involving 122 weapons connected to Operation Fast and Furious,” the report said. iWatch News wrote early and extensively about the misconceived program this spring. Federal prosecutors and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives permitted hundreds of guns to be purchased by suspected straw buyers with the expectation they might cross the border and lead investigators to drug cartels.
| | | | | | Car Dealers Target U.S. Troops with Sketchy Loans | | Share on Facebook | Share on Twitter | |  Evidence is mounting that many car dealers target American troops in predatory lending scams. We wrote this week about lawsuits that accuse some dealerships near U.S. bases of aggressive tactics that drain young recruits' bank accounts and affect mission readiness. The practices at some dealers are enough of a concern that the Federal Trade Commission has invited experts to speak at a public hearing Aug. 2 in San Antonio to focus on the problems servicemen and women face when they try to buy cars on credit.
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| | Norway Shooter Wanted to Kill Journalists | | Share on Facebook | Share on Twitter | |  Now this is chilling. Confessed Oslo attacker Anders Behring Breivik planned to attack journalism conferences that attract droves of reporters and editors from around the globe to advance his xenophobic, right-wing agenda. In his 1,500-page manifesto, Breivik called these gatherings “THE MOST attractive targets for large scale shock attacks" of what he deemed "category B traitors." He outlined a plan to use explosives to first collapse the conference building, then employ flamethrowers, assault rifles and grenades in “executing survivors of the initial blast(s).”
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| | We Broke That Story? | | Share on Facebook | Share on Twitter | | The Center works hard every day to deliver in-depth investigative projects and accountability news. Hitting pay dirt is always a pleasure, but often, in the hustle of the 24/7 digital news cycle, the collective memory of who broke a story gets trimmed, dropped or otherwise forgotten. So here is a summary of recent important investigative stories that originated here at the Center for Public Integrity. - Military Children Left Behind. It is now well known that 75 percent of K-12 school buildings at U.S. military bases are substandard. This story was cited in The Washington Post, Newsweek, Tucson Sentinel and many military publications.
- White House Visitor Logs. This investigation of the huge gaps in the Obama administration’s White House visitor logs is a true iWatch News original. It appeared on NPR, in Politico, The Washington Examiner and The Atlantic.
- Betting on Justice. iWatch News uncovered a new, questionable investment opportunity: high-interest loans for plaintiffs to fund lawsuits. The story appeared in The New York Times.
- Payday Lenders. We uncovered a cottage industry of usurious payday loan operations based on tribal lands to avoid U.S. banking regulations. This story was cited on NPR, in TheStreet.com.
- Campus Sexual Assault. We documented the pervasive problem of rape on college campuses – and how often serial perpetrators are allowed to stay in school. This project appeared on NPR, CNN and MSNBC, among other outlets.
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  Bill Buzenberg
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