The weekly watchdog: Dec. 5 - Dec. 9

By Bill Buzenberg

In case you missed them, catch up on this week's top investigations from iWatch News

Fraud and folly: The untold story of General Electric’s subprime debacle

By Michael Hudson

High-paid employees of fraud-plagued, GE-owned WMC Mortgage included ex-porn star, strippers

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"… to bring us back in the right direction,” Victor Argueta, a former risk analyst at WMC, says. “But it just never happened.”By 2007, WMC was bleeding b …"

"… s account of his transfer. “Everyone knew,” Argueta, the former risk analyst, says. “We all knew why he’d been moved to our section, from a nice co …"

"… really see much of a change,” Roman says.Victor Argueta, the former risk analyst, says he didn’t see much change either.Meetings would be held. Executive …"

Failure to communicate: Inside the army's doomed quest for the 'perfect' radio

By David Axe

The military's unsuccessful quest for a hi-tech battlefield radio consumes more than $17 billion

Excerpts from this story referencing "analyst":

"… far away.“JTRS would largely lift the fog of war,” Loren Thompson, an analyst with the Lexington Institute in Virginia, crowed on his blog in December 2 …"

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FACT CHECK: Facts Strained in ‘King of Bain’

By FactCheck.Org

Pro-Gingrich super PAC offers one-sided, distorted view of Romney’s years at Bain Capital in a 28-minute 'doc'

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"… ployees, and the insinuation that Romney/Bain influenced a Lehman Brothers analyst to issue a favorable stock rating so Bain could reap huge profits and esca …"

"… ness. According to theSEC settlement agreement, an unnamed Lehman Brothers analyst sent an e-mail to his boss in June 2000 saying that “DDi and parent (Bai …"

"… were pressuring him to issue a favorable rating for the stock. Despite the analyst expressing misgivings, Lehman gave the stock its highest 1-Buy rating and …"

Michigan's budget crisis puts democracy on the chopping block

By Paul Abowd

Michigan's emergency manager law grants sweeping powers to unelected officials

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"… n’s Mackinac Center attends ALEC events, as well. James Hohman, a center analyst, was one of 40 private sector representatives at a December 2010 conferenc …"

Venezuela emerges as new source of ‘conflict’ minerals

By Emilia Diaz-Struck and Joseph Poliszuk

Venezuelan black-market mineral likely making its way to everything from smart phones to smart bombs

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"… nd no security for the people working in the mines,” said Aaron Hall, an analyst with the Washington, D.C.-based Enough Project.This means that consumer-dr …"

"… onfidential between buyer and seller,” notes a USGS advisory.Still, some analysts have reviewed industry statistics and established that in the high-qualit …"

"… ls from different sources are routinely mixed in spot-market supply lines, analysts say it’s almost impossible to tell good coltan from the bad.Today there …"

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ANALYSIS: The end of health insurance as we know it?

By Wendell Potter

Big changes coming in how we obtain health coverage — and from who

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"… om 179.4 million in 2000 to 169.4 million in 2009.As a former managed-care analyst was quoted as saying in Barron’s last October, "There's no organic growt …"

What kind of defense budget would the American public make?

By R. Jeffrey Smith

Come to a presentation on May 10 of the defense budget that a representative sample of Americans prefers.

ALEC exempted from lobbyist status in three separate states

By Paul Abowd

Group faces IRS scrutiny, but is already exempt from lobbyist status in South Carolina, Indiana and Colorado.

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"… ember, making the group “as bipartisan as possible,” says Jon Kuhl, an analyst for NCSL. “Our president rotates every year between the parties.”NCSL …"

Live chat: The public's agenda for military spending

Join the conversation about the American public's priorities for the Pentagon

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"… Kull, director of the Program for Public Consultation; Matthew Leatherman, analyst for Stimson Center's Budgeting for Foreign Affairs and Defense project; an …"

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