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May 1, 2013

By Ben Freeman, Ph. D.

Rep. Coffman to Appropriators: Cut Pentagon Pork



Photograph of Rep. Micahel Coffman (R-CO) Rep. Mike Coffman sent a letter to the House Appropriations Committee and the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee asking them to replace sequestration with "responsible reductions to the defense budget."

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Topics: National Security

April 30, 2013

By Andre Francisco

A Nun, a House Painter, and a Drifter Walk into a Nuclear Complex



Y-12 Complex It sounds like the start of an absurd joke, but that’s what happened last summer at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee. Three peace activists broke into one of the most secure nuclear-weapons facilities in the U.S., often called the Fort Knox of Uranium.

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Topics: National Security

April 29, 2013

By Andre Francisco

CIA Used Bags of Cash to Buy Influence in Afghanistan



Hamid Karzai The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been giving the office of Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan’s president, secret deliveries of cash for more than a decade, according to an article in The New York Times.

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Topics: National Security

April 26, 2013

By Meryl Grenadier

Still Fighting to Expose Secret Law



Scales of Justice POGO joined an amicus brief written by the Electronic Privacy Information Center supporting The New York Times in its effort to obtain a memorandum written by the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel regarding the legality of the targeted killin

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Topics: Open Government

April 26, 2013

By Neil Gordon

Afghanistan Incinerators Burn Money, Not Trash



Incinerators The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) found that the government wasted $5 million on an unused solid waste incineration system on Forward Operating Base Salerno. The base continues to dispose of its solid waste in dangerous o

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Topics: Contract Oversight

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