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Court to Consider Secret Regulation of Wall Street
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POGO Testifies on Rights of National Security Employees
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Podcast: Exploring Transparency for Oil and Gas Extraction
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SEC Delays Revolving Door Restriction
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Groups from Left to Right Oppose Delaying Pentagon Savings
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POGO Tells Congress: Troubling National Security Claims Overshadow Rights
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Meet Avery Kleinman: POGO’s Beth Daley Impact Fund Fellow
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Senate Set to Strengthen Protections for Military Whistleblowers and Victims of Sexual Assault
November 20, 2013
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December 6, 2013
Court to Consider Secret Regulation of Wall Street
The public has a right to know how the government polices the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), an industry-funded self-regulatory group, according to an amicus brief filed this week by POGO and its allies.
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Topics: Financial Sector
November 19, 2013
State Dept. Won’t Name Advisers Already in Government’s Public Database
For four months, the State Department has refused to say which outside experts are working for the Department as special government employees (SGEs), ProPublica reported last week. Yet, the Project On Government Oversight was able to find more than 100 of the advisers identified as SGEs in an online government database. In other words, some of the information that State has been refusing to provide is hiding in plain sight.
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Topics: Government Accountability
November 7, 2013
Farm Bill Debate: Corporate Privacy or Public’s Right to Know
The Farm Bill has been in and out of the news for months, but one troublesome element has not yet received enough attention: harmful secrecy provisions.
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Topics: Open Government
October 31, 2013
NSA Spying, Meet the USA FREEDOM Act
The American people, most Members of Congress, and even the President have been kept in the dark far too long about National Security Agency (NSA) activities that threaten some of our fundamental rights and relationships. The USA FREEDOM Act has several re
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Topics: Government Accountability
October 3, 2013
Open Government Closed, Watchdogs Shut Out
As the federal government shuts down, so do the watchdogs responsible for keeping our government open and accountable.
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Topics: Government Accountability
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Podcast: Exploring Transparency for Oil and Gas Extraction
Mia Steinle talks about POGO's involvement in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and the hurdles to increased transparency for oil, gas and hard rock minerals here in the U.S.
