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Farm Bill Debate: Corporate Privacy or Public’s Right to Know
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FOIA Failings Continue
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November 18, 2013
Pentagon-Funded Clinic Closes in Afghanistan
A hospital in Afghanistan that received a $750,000 investment from the Pentagon and hoped to be a model for quality, low-cost medical care is shutting down six years after it opened.
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Topics: Contract Oversight
November 15, 2013
At the Pentagon, “The Price is Wrong”
Representative Jackie Speier recently played the game, “The Price is Wrong,” on the House Floor in order to highlight cases in which
government contractors are overbilling the federal government hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Topics: Contract Oversight
November 15, 2013
By Joe Newman
Gen. Who Intimidated Whistleblowers Not Fit to Oversee Army’s Sexual Assault Policy
Allegations that an Army general intimidated whistleblowers while on a NATO deployment in Afghanistan make him unfit for his current job of overseeing the Pentagon’s sexual assault policy, the Project On Government Oversight said Friday in a letter to Secr
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Topics: Whistleblower Protections
November 15, 2013
Big Firm Gets Small Business Contracts
The Washington Post released an investigation reporting that massive Virginia firm MicroTechnologies has been using a little-known contracting method to rake in millions of dollars of contracts designated for small businesses from the Department of Veteran
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Topics: Contract Oversight
November 14, 2013
By Neil Gordon
Company Linked to Terrorism Gets U.S. Contract Work
The Afghanistan reconstruction watchdog found that contractors supporting the insurgency continue to receive U.S. funds and access to U.S. facilities.
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Topics: Contract Oversight
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