I'm glad that Justice Department auditors finally criticized the Department spending $16 on a muffin and $8.24 for a cup of coffee.
But someone should audit the pretextual "leak investigation" into the sources of the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times article on warrantless wiretapping. It involved 5 full-time prosecutors, 25 FBI agents, and is still ongoing today.
The only person to be prosecuted as a result of the Justice Department's years-long, multi-million dollar "leak investigation" into New York Times sources is National Security Agency whistleblower Thomas Drake. The case against him collapsed in spectacular fashion back in June.
My organization, the Government Accountability Project, has asked GAO to audit this leak investigation (they should also audit the year-and-a-half one against me), which were done to harass and intimidate people who exposed the worst of Bush-era scandals--torture and warrantless wiretapping--in their embryonic stages.
Keeping in mind the economic crisis our country is in, I'm glad Department investigators audited wasteful conferences where a cookie cost $10. It turns my stomach. But if people realized the hundreds of millions wasted on bogus "leak investigations" over the past ten years, it would give them the worst headache ever.