The (POGO) Blog
April 17, 2018
Bad Actors Among Border Wall Contractors
Half of the six contractors that built border wall prototypes had questionable track records, including one contractor that the Army Corps of Engineers felt was too risky to do future business with.
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Topics: Contract Oversight
April 17, 2018
What the Senate Needs to Ask Gina Haspel
A list of questions the Senate needs to ask CIA director nominee Gina Haspel about her role in torture and rendition.
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Topics: Government Accountability, Open Government, National Security
April 10, 2018
By Sean Moulton
The Citizenship Question: A Lot Riding on a Single Change in 2020 Census
The Trump Administration wants to add an untested question about citizenship to the 2020 census, but including it could reduce the accuracy of the data—data that we use to apportion Congressional seats to the states and to direct hundreds of billions in fe
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Topics: Government Accountability
April 6, 2018
Three Key Reforms for Facial Recognition and Body Cameras
Police departments are moving forward with plans to incorporate real-time facial recognition in body cameras, creating serious risks to privacy and due process rights. Before adding facial recognition to body cameras, law enforcement should enact three cri
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April 6, 2018
Pruitt's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
As ethics problems pile up, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt should go.
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Topics: Government Accountability, Public Health and Science
