Will Evans is a reporter for the Center for Investigative Reporting, NPR's partner for the Secret Money Project.

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Earlier this month, the Center for Investigative Reporting released a leaked internal VA document that showed the entire world what veterans nationwide have known for years: the VA backlog problem is even worse than reported.

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"They spent, in the case of the shooter, 16 years doing exactly what they're trained to do, which is going out on these missions, deployment after deployment, killing people on a regular basis, " said Bronstein, executive chairman of the Center for Investigative Reporting.

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The New England Center for Investigative Reporting found that 13 of the 21 companies that got federal transportation money have a history of misconduct.

CNN: Firms that broke law still get tax dollars

Security officials suspected ties between Tsarnaev and the Canadian an ethnic Russian named William Plotnikov according to the Novaya Gazeta newspaper, which is known for its independence and investigative reporting and cited an unnamed official with the Anti-Extremism Center, which tracks militants.

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