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March 19, 2014
By Neil Gordon
Afghanistan Watchdog Sinks Teeth Into Scrapped Incinerators
The Afghanistan reconstruction watchdog has launched a formal inquiry into an ill-fated U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contract to build waste incinerators at Forward Operating Base Sharana.
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Topics: Contract Oversight
March 19, 2014
U.S. Joins International Effort to Bring Transparency to Drilling, Mining Industries
An international organization working to bring greater transparency and accountability to industries that extract natural resources accepted the U.S. as a candidate for membership at a meeting of its board today in Oslo, Norway.
Topics: Energy and Natural Resources
March 17, 2014
By Neil Gordon
Entrusting Afghanistan Aid Oversight to Contractors
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is about to put contractors in charge of overseeing the billions of dollars invested in Afghanistan reconstruction. Is this a good idea?
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Topics: Contract Oversight
March 14, 2014
Obama Promises to Declassify CIA Torture Report
President Obama has pledged to declassify the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s (SSCI) headline-making report about the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) interrogation techniques.
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Topics: Open Government
March 14, 2014
Looking Forward to When FOIA is No Longer Needed
Open government activists, journalists and interested citizens gathered today at Washington, D.C.’s Newseum to celebrate the 16th annual National Freedom of Information Day, part of this year’s Sunshine Week.
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Topics: Open Government
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