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October 21, 2013
Lady Gaga Tickets for Classified Info Scandal Hits Navy
Multiple senior Navy officials have been arrested for running an overbilling scheme with a major Asian defense contractor in one of the biggest- and juiciest- cases of fraud to hit the U.S. Navy in years.
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Topics: National Security
October 18, 2013
Shutdown Cost DoD $600 Million
A spokesperson for the Department of Defense (DoD) estimated that the government shutdown cost the Pentagon at least $600 million due to losses in productivity. That number may rise as long-term costs continue to reveal themselves.
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Topics: National Security
October 16, 2013
A Radioactive Poster Child for Government Waste
In 2005, the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) persuaded Congress to approve a new uranium processing facility. They pitched it as a $600 million facility, but today, the cost of the project has ballooned to as high as $11.6 billion.
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Topics: National Security
October 15, 2013
Watchdog Reports Security Weaknesses at State Department
Months after a federal Accountability Review Board advised the Department of State on ways to prevent future tragedies like the deadly September 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, State has yet to implement many of the recomme
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Topics: National Security
October 11, 2013
90 Seconds on Waste at the Dept. of Energy
Don’t have time to read our in-depth report on the problems at the Uranium Processing Facility (UPF)? No problem. POGO’s Lydia Dennett is ready to give you the key facts of the report and an anecdote that will make your head spin in this 90-second video.
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Topics: National Security
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