Government Accountability Office
Government Accountability Office is named in 13 events across the Capture Cascade Timeline, from 1977 to 2026.
Government Accountability Office on the timeline
13 events · 1977–2026 · click any marker
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-29 | GAO Says Agencies Could Not or Would Not Show What Their DOGE Teams Accessed or Which Controls Applied
1 src Government Accountability Office · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Department of Education · Securities and Exchange Commission · +3 | reported | |
| 2026-09-24 | GAO: DOD Reported ~$68M Obligated for Immigration Detention and $2.85M on Guantanamo Tents Never Used; ICE's Military-Assistance Request Still Active
2 src Government Accountability Office · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-09-24 | GAO: ICE Has No Strategic Plan for $45B Detention Expansion, Wasted $20M+ on Warehouses It Now Plans to Sell
5 src Government Accountability Office · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security | confirmed | |
| 2026-08-06 | GAO Audit Finds 96% of DOGE Grant Savings Unverifiable, $27.4B in Claimed Contract Cuts Never Executed
3 src Government Accountability Office · Gary Peters · Richard Blumenthal · Department of Government Efficiency | confirmed | |
| 2026-08-05 | GAO: White House Stonewalled All DOGE Oversight Requests; Fewer Than Half of Agencies Cooperated
3 src Government Accountability Office | confirmed | |
| 2026-06-19 | DHS Scraps Seven Warehouse Conversions as GAO Finds Camp East Montana 'Wasted Millions'
2 src Government Accountability Office · Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement | confirmed | |
| 2026-04-28 | GAO Finds Treasury's Fiscal Service Did Not Fully Implement Security Controls Over DOGE Payment-System Access, and a DOGE Employee Sent Unencrypted PII Outside the Bureau
2 src Government Accountability Office · Department of the Treasury · Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) | reported | |
| 2024-05-13 | GAO report finds former CBP Critical Incident Team personnel reassigned to Evidence Collection and Management Inquiry Teams; OPR independence compromised
3 src Government Accountability Office · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Border Patrol · CBP Office of Professional Responsibility · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-06 | CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus terminates Border Patrol Critical Incident Teams; duties transferred to Office of Professional Responsibility
6 src U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Border Patrol · CBP Office of Professional Responsibility · Alex Padilla · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-24 | Ten House and Senate committee chairs request GAO audit of CBP Critical Incident Teams
3 src Bennie G. Thompson · Gary Peters · Alex Padilla · Zoe Lofgren · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2016-01-01 | DHS Initiates HART Program to Replace IDENT: 290M+ Identity Biometric Backbone; GAO Finds Significant Management and Privacy Shortcomings in 2023
6 src Government Accountability Office | reported | |
| 2008-05-08 | Senate Intelligence Committee Raises Alarm Over Intelligence Contractor Revolving Door, Requires Workforce Reporting
3 src Senate Select Committee on Intelligence · Government Accountability Office · Department of Defense · Office of the Director of National Intelligence | confirmed | |
| 1977-08-12 | Weinberger v. Equifax: Fifth Circuit Guts Anti-Pinkerton Act, Clearing Path for Private Intelligence Industry
5 src Government Accountability Office | confirmed |
Network neighbors
Department of Homeland Security
3× shared
Southern Border Communities Coalition
3× shared
U.S. Border Patrol
3× shared
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
3× shared
Alex Padilla
2× shared
CBP Office of Professional Responsibility
2× shared
Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)
2× shared
Gary Peters
2× shared
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
2× shared
Alejandro Mayorkas
1× shared
Bennie G. Thompson
1× shared
Bureau of the Fiscal Service
1× shared
Carolyn B. Maloney
1× shared
Chris Magnus
1× shared
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
1× shared
DHS Office of Biometric Identity Management (OBIM)
1× shared
Department of Defense
1× shared
Department of Education
1× shared
Department of Government Efficiency
1× shared
Department of Veterans Affairs
1× shared
Department of the Treasury
1× shared
Equifax Inc.
1× shared
Executive Office of the President
1× shared
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
1× shared
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