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Does America Have a Security-Industrial Complex?
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Shining Light on Closed Doors
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NSA Leak Prompts Talk of Limiting Contractor Access to Secrets
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Final Inspector General’s Report Cuts References to Panetta’s Disclosure of “TOP SECRET” Info
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POGO Supports Bill to Declassify Surveillance Court Opinions
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One Step Closer to a More Just and Effective Military
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Lawmaker Calls on Pentagon to Release Report on Zero Dark Thirty Probe
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House Votes Today on Whistleblowers in the Military
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How Much Does an F-35 Really Cost?
June 3, 2013
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June 18, 2013
Shining Light on Closed Doors
Although some Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) subcommittees have slowly begun to open their NDAA markups to the public, POGO continues to wait for the day the SASC will open all its closed NDAA discussions to the public.
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Topics: Open Government
June 18, 2013
By Neil Gordon
DynCorp Accused of Being a Deadbeat
A Turkish construction company has filed a breach of contract lawsuit against DynCorp International, seeking nearly $6 million in overdue payments and damages for construction work in Afghanistan, including a project for which the government failed to hold
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Topics: Contract Oversight
June 18, 2013
Does America Have a Security-Industrial Complex?
A new article in The Atlantic argues that the level of secrecy in Washington has become “absurd,” especially around intelligence and defense programs.
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Topics: Open Government
June 17, 2013
GAP Releases Statement on Snowden and the NSA
The Government Accountability Project's (GAP) statement notes that Edward Snowden is facing “classic acts of predatory reprisal” for his leak of highly classified documents about the NSA’s surveillance programs.
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Topics: Whistleblower Protections
June 17, 2013
NSA Leak Prompts Talk of Limiting Contractor Access to Secrets
In the wake of Edward Snowden’s leak of highly classified documents from the National Security Agency, some in Congress are raising concerns about contractors’ access to government secrets, according to an article in The New York Times.
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Topics: National Security
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