SB Sentinel · Government Oversight
Who Watches
the Watchdogs
The agencies, departments and programs that spend public money are watched by inspectors general, auditors and prosecutors — on paper. This site reads their work, in public, and writes down what it actually says: the fraud cases on the record, what is really inside the bills, and where the money comes from. Federal, state and local.
Why this site exists
“I got tired of fake news, opinionated stories, half truths, etc. so I created my own news feed.”
— Sunny Burns, founder, Syntelligence News
Nobody trusts the government, on any side. This site's answer is not another opinion about it. The answer is documentation: every claim tied to the primary document it came from — an IG report, a DOJ filing, a GAO finding, the bill text, an appropriations line — with the source linked on the item so you can read it yourself.
The promise: documentation, not opinion
- Primary sources only. Entries are built from inspector general reports, Justice Department filings and releases, GAO findings, court records, bill text and the Federal Register — never from commentary about them.
- Amounts only as stated. A figure appears here only if the source document states it. Allegations are labelled allegations; findings are labelled findings; convictions are labelled convictions.
- A funding-source line on every item. Every oversight entry says where the money came from — appropriation, fee, trust fund or borrowing. See Follow the Funding.
- Honest empty states. A section still being built says so, in plain text. Nothing is seeded, backfilled or invented to make a page look full.
- Corrections in the open. If a figure here is wrong, send the primary document that proves it — the correction is logged against the item, never made silently.
The sections
Fraud Ledger
Documented fraud, embezzlement and misuse — from Inspectors General, DOJ, GAO and court filings. What happened, the amount the source states, the agency, the case status, and what it means for Americans.
Lawsuit Ledger
Civil suits, class actions and settlements tracked on three numbers, not one: the figure announced, what the suit cost — fees and administration — and what Americans actually got back.
What's Actually in the Bill
Major bills in plain English: what the bill really does, what it costs, the pet projects and named set-asides buried in it, who put them there — and where the money comes from.
Follow the Funding
How federal money is raised and moved — appropriations, fees, trust funds, borrowing — and the rule that every oversight item on this site carries a funding-source line.
Open Comment Tracker
The federal comment-deadline radar: which proposed rules are open, when the window closes, and what happened after it did. The free digest stays free.
Agency Scorecards
Repeat offenders, open inspector-general recommendations and recovered amounts — methodology first, rankings only from published IG and GAO data.
Indigenous Land Watch
Government actions changing land ownership and public lands affecting Indigenous peoples: land into trust, disposals and exchanges, tribal consultation — from the Federal Register and agency records.
Trump Watch Claims Desk
Part of this franchise, on the Global Alert Desk: administration claims logged verbatim from the administration's own channels and checked against primary sources.
The disclosure record
One question runs through this franchise: when the government itself is breached, who tells the public — the agency, or someone else? SB Sentinel's Global Alert Desk tracks government cyberattacks and how each one came to light: which agencies disclosed their own breach, which were disclosed by outsiders, and which surfaced only when the attackers published the data. That record lives on the desk and is part of this franchise's work.