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Bipartisan Letter Calls for Reducing the Pentagon Budget
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Defense Contractor Time Machine: Less Spending, More Jobs, Analysis Reveals
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Members of Congress Oppose Using Budget Gimmicks to Fund the Pentagon
March 19, 2012
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October 17, 2013
Wall Street Erases Its Own Mistakes
An online database serves as a repository of Wall Street brokers’ bad behaviors, allowing the public to check for any red flags before investing, but a new report found that in the vast majority of cases, brokers who asked to have bad marks removed from th
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Topics: Financial Sector
October 17, 2013
Senator Stands Up for Nuclear Whistleblower
Senator Ed Markey sent a letter to Earnest Moniz, Secretary of the
Department of Energy, defending the rights of whistleblowers who faced retribution for reporting “severe safety and management challenges at the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant.”
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Topics: Whistleblower Protections
October 16, 2013
By Neil Gordon
Syria Debate Skewed by Undisclosed Defense Industry Ties
A new report shows how the national news media hid its commentators' defense industry ties during the debate over whether the U.S. should attack Syria.
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Topics: Contract Oversight
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 16, 2013
Boeing Overcharges Military, Again
A July audit obtained by Bloomberg News from the Pentagon’s Inspector General (IG) found that Boeing overcharged the military as much as $16.6 million as part of a $4.4 billion CH-47F Helicopter contract from 2008.
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Topics: Contract Oversight
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