Watchdog Found: White House Fills SIGAR Vacancy with Veteran Investigator

Good news for accountability fanatics: a leadership void at a key oversight position will soon be filled. The White House announced yesterday that President Obama will appoint John Sopko to lead the office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), the watchdog tasked with rooting out fraud, waste, and abuse in U.S. taxpayer-funded projects to rebuild the war-torn country.

Backlog of Unaudited Pentagon Contract Costs Could Reach $1 Trillion

It's been almost four years since the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a scathing report on the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA)--a key contract oversight agency at the Pentagon--and it's time to ask ourselves whether taxpayers are better off as a result of the "improvements" implemented by DCAA.

Internal Review Shows Gross Mishandling of Military Whistleblower Reprisal Investigations

Pentagon investigators mishandled more than half of a set of whistleblower reprisal cases, according to a damning internal assessment report obtained by the Project On Government Oversight.

Don't Let Review of Classified Information Safeguards Infringe on Rights

POGO and other good government advocates are urging the Office of Management and Budget to be careful about infringing upon the constitutional rights of employees as it moves forward with a review of procedures to safeguard classified information.