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EPIC Case Will Define Government Records
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OMB Refuses to Provide Charge Card Policies and Reports
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The Most Transparent Administration in History? Not So Much…
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Looking Forward to When FOIA is No Longer Needed
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House Unanimously Passes Freedom of Information Improvements
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Anti-Transparency Provisions Removed From Farm Bill
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Farm Bill Debate: Corporate Privacy or Public’s Right to Know
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Haiti Recovery Cloaked in Secrecy
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Senator Worries Over Shutdown’s ‘Closed Government’
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April 8, 2014
SIGAR and USAID Clash over Access to Afghan Assessments
SIGAR wants USAID to stop stonewalling about failures in Afghanistan reconstruction spending. USAID is protecting information, and some of their justifications are far fetched.
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Topics: Contract Oversight
April 7, 2014
Growing Concerns Over Deregulation of Arms Export Controls
U.S. law enforcement officials are increasingly worried that their efforts to stem the illicit trafficking of U.S. arms could be undermined by an Obama Administration initiative to deregulate export controls.
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Topics: National Security
April 4, 2014
By Emily Binkow
OMB Refuses to Provide Charge Card Policies and Reports
The Office of Management and Budget denied a recent Project On Government Oversight FOIA request for information related to charge card abuse in government agencies.
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Topics: Government Accountability
April 4, 2014
By Neil Gordon
Hearing Spotlights Afghanistan Corruption and Waste
The $100 billion U.S. reconstruction effort in Afghanistan was on the hot seat on Capitol Hill.
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Topics: Contract Oversight
April 3, 2014
The Most Transparent Administration in History? Not So Much…
The White House set a new record on the number of Freedom of
Information Act requests it denied or censored.
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Topics: Government Accountability
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