Matthew Blake

Matthew Blake covers the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform for the Washington Independent. He has done investigative reporting on social justice and government accountability issues for The Nation and Chicago Reporter magazines. He is unmistakably from the Midwest.

• Justice in Hot Water Over Dubious Grants 07/03/2008
• War Contractors May Actually Have to Follow the Law 07/02/2008
• Waxman: White House Knew Of Hunt/Kurdistan Oil Contract 07/02/2008 | 6 Comments
• Running Out the Clock on Plame Documents 06/30/2008
• EPA Very, Very Belatedly Looks At Contaminated Mines In Navajo Nation 06/27/2008
• Will Lawsuits Make A Comeback? 06/26/2008
• War Contracting Gone Bad 06/25/2008 | 1 Comment
• Hurray! FEC Up and Running 06/25/2008
• AEY Official Admitted Termite-Damaged Ammo Was No Good 06/24/2008
• Oh, Right, the U.S. Ambassador to Albania's Alleged Involvement in Illegal Arms Dealing 06/24/2008
• Stephen Lynch Goes Nuts 06/24/2008
• Albanian President: I Would Have Given This Junk Away 06/24/2008
• Oversight Must Go On, Minus Star Attraction. 06/24/2008 | 1 Comment
• Waxman to Bush: Declassify Info on Permanent Iraq Bases 06/23/2008
• Oversight Committee: U.S. Ambassador to Albania Collaborated In Illegal Arms Selling 06/23/2008
• Watchdogs Rethink McCain 06/23/2008 | 2 Comments
• Is Claiming Executive Privilege a Big Deal? 06/20/2008
• What Happened? Don't Ask Scott McClellan 06/20/2008
• Artur Davis: Is Rove A Liar Or What? 06/20/2008
• McClellan's Back! 06/20/2008 | 1 Comment
• EPA Administrator Johnson Claims Executive Privilege 06/20/2008
• When Will the White House Talk About Plame? 06/20/2008
• House Judiciary Asks: What Happened 06/20/2008
• EPA Employees Make Cool New Web Site For Their Boss 06/18/2008
• Literally, Too Many Problems to Track 06/18/2008
• White House Emails: White House Wins 06/17/2008
• Action Tougher Than Oversight 06/17/2008
• Waxman Subpoenas For Plame 06/16/2008 | 1 Comment
• Office of Special Counsel: What's the Real Story? 06/12/2008
• Okay, But You've Got Two Hours 06/11/2008
• Abramoff, Bush Together on Camera 06/09/2008
• Abramoff and the Northern Marianas Islands 06/09/2008
• Tale of a Political Firing 06/09/2008
• Abramoff 'Point of Information' for White House 06/09/2008
• Nominated FEC Commissioner Sued Over FEC Settlement 06/06/2008 | 1 Comment
• Progressives Push Obama on Weapons Waste 06/06/2008
• Obama, McCain Quietly Conspire to Pass Useful Legislation 06/05/2008
• Blackwater: Take That San Diego 06/05/2008
• Waxman, Conyers: "What Happened" in Plame leak? 06/03/2008
• Watchdog's Conflicted Feelings About McCain 06/03/2008
• Return of the FEC 06/03/2008
• "Shadow Intelligence Community" Spotlighted 05/30/2008
• Conyers Stays In Attack Mode 05/30/2008
• Pentagon Auditor: I Can't Do All This Auditing! 05/28/2008
• Stephen Johnson Is No James Watt 05/20/2008
• Yeah, What About China? 05/20/2008
• Tempers Flare During EPA Testimony 05/20/2008
• What Does .0075 Parts Per Billion Mean? 05/20/2008
• Johnson: Clean Air Act Sucks 05/20/2008
• Johnson: I'm the Strictest Ever! 05/20/2008
• FDA Redux 05/19/2008
• EPA Chief Overruled Calif. Waiver, Too 05/19/2008
• Hurray for FDA 05/19/2008
• Legal Theory Seeks to Curtail Tort Cases 05/19/2008 | 1 Comment
• Why Is Clement Out? 05/15/2008
• Will Conyers Get Rove? 05/15/2008
• Gates Blasts Pentagon Waste 05/14/2008
• Don't Blame DHS 05/12/2008
• Is Real ID Really Going to Happen? 05/12/2008 | 2 Comments
• No Copies of White House Emails Near Iraq Invasion 05/06/2008 | 2 Comments
• Yoo, Ashcroft to Testify; Addington May Follow 05/06/2008
• Doan Speaks, Envisions Victory Dance 05/05/2008
• Is John Conyers Getting Anywhere? 05/02/2008 | 1 Comment
• Last Straw for EPA Administrator? 05/02/2008 | 1 Comment
• Billions for Pentagon Failures 05/01/2008 | 3 Comments
• Doan Redux 04/30/2008
• Why Is Doan Out? 04/30/2008 | 4 Comments
• Booz Allen on Military Waste 04/28/2008 | 1 Comment
• Watchdogs Rejoice 04/25/2008
• Abstinence-Only Education Endures 04/24/2008 | 5 Comments
• Shooting Down Missile Defense 04/21/2008 | 4 Comments
• A Few Convicted Men 04/21/2008
• Book Your Green Zone Stay Now 04/18/2008
• Waxman v. Watchdog 04/17/2008
• Hospital-Induced Fatalities Gets Public Airing 04/16/2008 | 1 Comment
• Is Working for Bush a Good Career Move? 04/15/2008 | 1 Comment
• Trading Science for Politics 04/15/2008
• Census Workers Sharpen No. 2 Pencils 04/09/2008 | 1 Comment
• Can't Talk Now, I'm Being Sued 04/08/2008
• Northern Virginia's Terror Economy Unlikely to Slip Under Next President, Congress 04/07/2008
• A Disadvantaged Arms Dealer 04/04/2008
• Waxman: Ozone Law Explanation Hot Air 04/03/2008
• War on Terror a Boon For Virginia 04/01/2008 | 1 Comment
• Lieberman Says What None Of Us Is Thinking 03/31/2008 | 2 Comments
• Here Comes the Hearing: AEY Version 03/27/2008
• Nauseating Morning Read 03/27/2008 | 1 Comment
• Rite of Spring or Time to Panic? 03/26/2008
• Top House Republican: "We Weren't Ready For Primetime" in Iraq 03/24/2008
• McCain and Clinton Records Also Breached 03/21/2008
• Waxman to State: Who Snooped Around Obama's Records? 03/21/2008
• SIDEBAR: Not Just Accounting But Accountability 03/20/2008
• Walker, Fiscal Ranger 03/20/2008 | 2 Comments
• Blackwater's Entrepreneurial Spirit 03/20/2008 | 3 Comments
• Happy 5th Anniversary: Defense Contractor's Wiring Linked to Electrocuting Troops In Iraq 03/19/2008 | 1 Comment
• Lieberman: The Anti-Waxman 03/17/2008 | 2 Comments
• A Tollbooth On Every Corner 03/17/2008 | 1 Comment
• EPA Administrator Might Regret the Time He Agreed With Staff 03/12/2008
• Beating the Clock 03/10/2008
• SIDEBAR: A Stalling Scorecard 03/10/2008
• Spitzer Violated the Public Trust -- Potentially the Mann Act 03/10/2008
• Report: Blackwater Cost Government Millions by Saying Their Employees Weren't Their Employees 03/10/2008
• What Do You Get for $12 Billion? 03/10/2008
• Where Was the Outrage? 03/07/2008 | 1 Comment
• CEO's Test Limits of Congressional Sympathy 03/07/2008
• No Ethical Issue Here 03/07/2008 | 1 Comment
• An Early Rite of Spring? 03/07/2008
• The Consumer Safety Citizen Superhero of Brooklyn 03/05/2008
• No Progress on White House Email 02/29/2008
• Providing Needed Oversight On An Oversight Report Of The Government's Chief Auditors 02/29/2008
• Protecting Red Tape 02/27/2008
• Clemens' Nanny Quotes Clint Eastwood, Clearly Speaks English 02/26/2008 | 1 Comment
• Ousting a Bad Bureaucrat? 02/26/2008 | 1 Comment
• Be Our Guest! Walter Reed Gets Some Disney Magic 02/25/2008
• The Supreme Court v. Reality: FDA Version 02/20/2008 | 2 Comments
• (Sort of) In Defense of the Clemens Hearing 02/20/2008 | 1 Comment
• Oh, Really? CDC says FEMA's Gulf Coast Trailers are Toxic 02/15/2008
• Steroid Hearing an Awkward Affair 02/14/2008 | 2 Comments
• Hearing Adjourned! 02/13/2008
• Maybe A 20,000-Hour Hearing? 02/13/2008
• That Settles It 02/13/2008
• Not a Kucinich Supporter 02/13/2008
• Name Names! 02/13/2008
• Hero Worship Watch 02/13/2008
• The Roger Clemens Is A Betrayed Saint Angle 02/13/2008
• Yes, More Hearings! 02/13/2008
• 'Potted Plant' Under Fire 02/13/2008
• 'New Definition of Lynching' 02/13/2008
• Tierney Corners Clemens 02/13/2008
• McNamee Under Fire 02/13/2008
• Roger Clemens Is A Public Health Issue 02/13/2008
• Clemens Not Guilty, Says Clemens 02/13/2008
• Perjury for Clemens? 02/13/2008
• Juice for Congressional Oversight 02/13/2008
• Human Growth Hormone 101 02/12/2008
• Congress Cares About The Health of Kids 02/12/2008
• Watchdogs Undermined by Political Appointees 02/11/2008
• Steroid Saga Takes Turn for Dramatic, Gross 02/07/2008
• Shut the Door on Open Government Act 02/06/2008
• Rescuing the FDA 02/05/2008
• All Oversight Is Local 02/04/2008 | 1 Comment
• CEO Raises Under Scrutiny 02/01/2008 | 3 Comments
• How Soon is Soon? 01/30/2008
• State Dept. Says Embroiled Embassy Almost Done 01/30/2008 | 2 Comments
• Signing Statements Take Heat Off War Contractors 01/29/2008 | 3 Comments
• State of the Union Liveblog 01/28/2008 | 4 Comments
• Waxman Decides Steroid Line Up 01/24/2008
• Hearing: U.S. Embassies Isolated, Ugly 01/23/2008