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May 1, 2013
Rep. Coffman to Appropriators: Cut Pentagon Pork
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
A Nun, a House Painter, and a Drifter Walk into a Nuclear 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
CIA Used Bags of Cash to Buy Influence in Afghanistan
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
Still Fighting to Expose Secret Law
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
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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